Tag Archives: online counselling

Why aren’t governments supporting web doctoring?

January 29, 2009 – 9:45 am

John Mendoza, Adjunct Professor of Health Science, University of the Sunshine Coast, wants more support for web-based mental health programs:
“Gavin Andrews (see previous posts) is absolutely right in his assertion that the web offers great potential for the effective treatment of some mental health problems in our community.
Australian researchers like Andrews and others including Helen [...]

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The web can help mental health: psychologist

January 29, 2009 – 9:37 am

Dr Peter Cotton, a psychologist, writes in response to Gavin Andrew’s recent article on web-based treatment programs for depression, anxiety and other disorders:
“My initial response is that I think this is a very promising and potentially helpful development. It builds on, and is consistent with,  emerging research around the web-based delivery of programs for common [...]

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More questions about web doctoring and mental health

January 28, 2009 – 8:49 pm

Dr John Ashfield, a rural psychotherapist, has added these comments to discussions about the role of web doctoring in mental health (see previous posts for more info):
The use of internet technology must inevitably have a place in psychotherapy and psychological treatment of mental health problems and mental disorders – particularly in rural and remote areas [...]

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Web doctoring: a sad comment on the state of mental health services?

January 27, 2009 – 9:51 am

Some hundreds of patients with depression, anxiety and other disorders have received online treatment using a sophisticated computerised cognitive behaviour therapy program from the St Vincent’s Clinical Research Unit for Anxiety Disorders in Sydney.  The treatment is effective in the short and long term, according to Gavin Andrews, professor of psychiatry at St Vincent’s Hospital. [...]

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