A Web-based teaching tool called WebCAPSI was modified and tested as an online treatment for social anxiety. Two-Hundred and Seventy-Seven Introductory Psychology students at the University of Manitoba participated in the study. Twenty-eight participants were excluded from the study, resulting in 121 participants in the control group and 128 in the treatment group used for the final analysis. All participants received written materials on treatment for social phobia via WebCAPSI; however, the material was broken down into discrete units with assigned study questions for participants in the treatment condition. Participants in the treatment condition answered specific questions within the WebCAPSI program whereas participants in the control condition answered questions unrelated to the content of the materials. Further, participants in the treatment condition were given the opportunity to serve as peer reviewers. Results of this study indicated significant differences in post-treatment anxiety scores on two anxiety measures between groups, higher treatment expectancy scores in the treatment group, and higher baseline anxiety scores predicting greater reduction in anxiety post-treatment. Peer review did not appear to have a significant effect on post-treatment anxiety scores. These results indicate that the WebCAPSI program may be a useful tool to present information on the treatment of social anxiety.

A Web-based teaching tool called WebCAPSI was modified and tested as an online treatment for social anxiety. Two-Hundred and Seventy-Seven Introductory Psychology students at the University of Manitoba participated in the study. Twenty-eight participants were excluded from the study, resulting in 121 participants in the control group and 128 in the treatment group used for the final analysis. All participants received written materials on treatment for social phobia via WebCAPSI; however, the material was broken down into discrete units with assigned study questions for participants in the treatment condition. Participants in the treatment condition answered specific questions within the WebCAPSI program whereas participants in the control condition answered questions unrelated to the content of the materials. Further, participants in the treatment condition were given the opportunity to serve as peer reviewers. Results of this study indicated significant differences in post-treatment anxiety scores on two anxiety measures between groups, higher treatment expectancy scores in the treatment group, and higher baseline anxiety scores predicting greater reduction in anxiety post-treatment. Peer review did not appear to have a significant effect on post-treatment anxiety scores. These results indicate that the WebCAPSI program may be a useful tool to present information on the treatment of social anxiety.

Technology and psychological treatments have increasingly been used together to increase the reach of psychotherapy and potentially reduce treatment costs. This research focused on how technology has been used to deliver or facilitate treatments focused on behavioral parent training. Behavioral parent training is a research-supported method of improving parenting skills and child behavior. We first reviewed any existing research on the topic, and found that treatments that used technology to teach parenting skills were generally successful at improving parent and child behavior. The review also identified many research questions that have yet to be answered about the cost of such interventions, how they work with diverse groups of people, and what makes someone likely to stay with the treatment. The next study in this research project tested a shortened version of a technology-based treatment adapted from a group-based manual that was created for Spanish-speaking families. The program was called Padres Preparados Online (Prepared Parents Online), and it taught three parenting skills on a system that was available online or using an app. Parent coaching, typically carried out in in-person groups or on the phone, was also conducted online. Parents uploaded videos of themselves to an online system and the therapist would record and post video, audio, and text coaching comments to support parents in strengthening the skills they were learning. Results showed that parents and children improved in a variety of ways, ranging from decreased problematic child behavior to decreased parenting stress. This study demonstrated that technology can be used to deliver a parenting program to Latinx families, and helped the study team identify limitations and questions for future research. This research was financially supported by the Utah State University Psychology Department and Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services.

ADHD affects executive functions and pharmacological treatment is the most common intervention. Medication is ineffective for some and psychosocial interventions are scarcely available. CBT that teaches organizational skills for managing ADHD-symptoms has shown promising results. Smartphones can help individuals perform executive tasks such as planning and organizationand they could beefficacious as a support tool for ADHD patients. The current study is aRCT that compares an online course (n=29) based on previouslyeffective CBT treatments for ADHD to a wait-list control (n=29). Theintervention focused on teaching the use of an online calendar and smartphone apps. The intervention brought significant improvement (p < 0.001) to participants regarding ADHD symptoms and 38% of participants were considered clinically significantly improved. This indicates that online treatments using IT-tools for ADHD is effective and that smartphones can be used as a tool for aiding individuals with impairments in executive functions.

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ADHD affects executive functions and pharmacological treatment is the most common intervention. Medication is ineffective for some and psychosocial interventions are scarcely available. CBT that teaches organizational skills for managing ADHD-symptoms has shown promising results. Smartphones can help individuals perform executive tasks such as planning and organization and they could be efficacious as a support tool for ADHD patients. The current study is a RCT that compares an online course (n=29) based on previously effective CBT treatments for ADHD to a wait-list control (n=29). The intervention focused on teaching the use of an online calendar and smartphone apps. The intervention brought significant improvement (p < 0.001) to participants regarding ADHD symptoms and 38% of participants were considered clinically significantly improved. This indicates that online treatments using IT-tools for ADHD is effective and that smartphones can be used as a tool for aiding individuals with impairments in executive functions.

Syftet med studien har varit att undersöka hur kuratorer inom hälso-och sjukvården ser på internetbaserad behandling med patienter med psykisk ohälsa, för att beskriva och förstå specifikt deras syn på möjligheter och begränsningar med sådana behandlingsmetoder. Studien har genomförts genom kvalitativa semistrukturerade intervjuer med tio yrkesverksamma kuratorer på åtta olika primärvårdsenheter i Stockholms län. Materialet från intervjuerna har analyserats med hjälp av den symboliska interaktionismen. Resultatet visade att kuratorernas inställning till det internetbaserade arbetet är ambivalent. Det internetbaserade behandlingsarbetet är komplicerat och det är tydligt att det finns både möjligheter och begränsningar med ett sådant arbete. Vidare visade resultatet att de möjligheter som kuratorerna kunde se med internetbaserad behandling främst handlar om tillgänglighet och att dessa metoder skulle kunna vara ett värdefullt verktyg till de patienter som önskar sådana behandlingsmetoder. När det gäller begränsningar så kunde kuratorerna se att behandling via internet ställer stora krav på patienten och att interaktion via skrift är mindre nyansfull än vid det traditionella behandlingsarbetet. Det är tydligt att den främsta anledningen till kuratorernas tveksamhet inför dessa metoder handlar om förlusten av att inte kunna se patienten ansikte mot ansikte. Kuratorerna har även svårt att se hur det internetbaserade arbetet praktiskt skulle kunna fungera i det psykosociala arbetet. Det internetbaserade arbetet kan således inte enkelt jämföras med det traditionella psykosociala arbetet som sker ansikte mot ansikte, utan bör ses som ett komplement eller ett helt nytt sätt att arbeta på. / The purpose of the study has been to increase the knowledge of how counsellors within health care view internet based treatment of patients who suffer from mental illnesses, to be able to describe and understand the possibilities and limitations with such forms of treatment. The study has been carried out through qualitative semi structured interviews with ten professional counsellors in eight different primary care units in Stockholm county. The transcripts of the interviews have been analysed by using the theory of symbolic interactionism. The result showed that the counsellors’ view of internet based treatment is ambivalent. The internet based treatment is complicated and the counsellors seeing both pros and cons indicates that there are both possibilities and limitations which such methods. The result also showed that the possibilities that the counsellors can identify in internet based treatment concerns availability and that such methods have the potential to be a valuable tool for those patient who desire such methods of treatment. When it comes to limitations the counsellors can see that treatment via internet make great demands on the patient’s own abilities and that written interaction is far less nuanced than the interactions of traditional treatment work. It is clear that the main reason for the counsellors’ hesitation about these methods is the lack of face-to-face interaction with the patient, as well as difficulties imagining the practical applications of the internet based treatment. Thus the internet based treatment work can not easily be compared with the traditional psychosocial work that occurs face-to-face, but should be considered as a potential complement to traditional treatments or even a complete new way of working.