Online CBT beneficial for young people with social anxiety disorder: Study ANI | Updated: May 13, 2021 08:52 IST
Washington [US], May 13 (ANI): A team of researchers has found that internet-delivered cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is an efficacious and cost-effective treatment option for young people with social anxiety disorder.
The findings of the study were published in the journal JAMA Psychiatry.
Social anxiety disorder can cause considerable suffering in children and adolescents and, for many with the disorder, access to effective treatment is limited. Researchers at Centre for Psychiatry Research at Karolinska Institutet and Region Stockholm in Sweden have now shown that online CBT is an efficacious and cost-effective treatment option.
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Online CBT effective for social anxiety disorder in young people
Social anxiety disorder can cause considerable suffering in children and adolescents and, for many with the disorder, access to effective treatment is limited. Researchers at Centre for Psychiatry Research at Karolinska Institutet and Region Stockholm have now shown that internet-delivered cognitive behavioural therapy is an efficacious and cost-effective treatment option. The study is published in the journal JAMA Psychiatry.
Jens Högström, Eva Serlachius and Martina Nordh. Photo: Stefan Zimmerman.
Social anxiety disorder (SAD, previously known as social phobia) has a typical onset during childhood and is characterised by an intense and persistent fear of being scrutinised and negatively evaluated in social or performance situations.
Internet-delivered CBT effective in treating children and adolescents with OCD
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in children and adolescents is associated with impaired education and worse general health later in life. Access to specialist treatment is often limited. According to a study from Centre for Psychiatry Research at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and Region Stockholm, internet-delivered cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) can be as effective as conventional CBT. The study, published in the prestigious journal
JAMA, can help make treatment for OCD more widely accessible.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a potentially serious mental disorder that normally debuts in childhood.
Symptoms include intrusive thoughts that trigger anxiety (obsessions), and associated repetitive behaviours (compulsions), which are distressing and time consuming.