Research paper supports that clinician-guided online CBT is effective

Clinician-supported internet-delivered cognitive behavioral therapy (ICBT) can be an effective treatment option when treating social anxiety disorder (SAD). Unguided ICBT is often found to be less effective. One possible solution to reduce the costs of clinician support is to provide support on demand. This study compared on-demand guidance with scheduled weekly therapist guidance in ICBT for SAD .

Points discussed in the paper

• Both the on-demand guidance group and the scheduled weekly therapist guidance group showed significant improvement in the primary outcome measure, the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale self-report (LSAS-SR) .

• The groups did not differ in their estimated change during the treatment period, indicating that on-demand guidance is as effective as scheduled guidance in ICBT for SAD .

• Both groups experienced similar improvement on secondary outcome measures.

• The study found that support on demand can be an effective way of providing guidance in internet-delivered cognitive behavioral therapy (ICBT) for social anxiety disorder (SAD).

• The study suggests that on-demand guidance may help reduce the costs associated with clinician support in ICBT for SAD .

Source

Käll, A., et. al. (2023) . “Scheduled Support Versus Support on Demand in Internet-Delivered Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorder: Randomized Controlled Trial” https://cpe.psychopen.eu/index.php/cpe/article/view/11379