Internet Interventions for Posttraumatic Stress have grown in popularity due to the limits that many patients face in their ability to seek therapy to treat their symptoms.Jian-Ping Wang, & Maercker, A. (2014). Web-based interventions for traumatized people in mainland china. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 5, 1-1. Doi:10.3402. These limits include lack of resources and residing in small towns or in the countryside.Wang, Z., Wang, J., & Maercker, A. (2013). Chinese my trauma recovery, a web-based intervention for traumatized persons in two parallel samples: Randomized controlled trial. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 15(9), 112-125. doi:10.2196 These patients may find it difficult to seek treatment because they do not have geographical access to treatment, and this can also limit the time they have to seek help. Additionally, those who live in rural areas may experience more stigma related to mental health issues. Internet interventions can increase the possibility that those who suffer from PTSD can seek help by eliminating these barriers to treatment. Therapist-Assisted Internet Interventions High Therapist Involvement One example of an internet intervention with a high level of therapist involvement is Interapy, which was created and named by Alfred Lange and a team of psychologists at the University of Amsterdam in 2003.Lange, A., Rietdijk, D., Hudcovicova, M., Van De Ven, J. P., Schrieken, B., & Emmelkamp, P. M. (2003). Interapy: a controlled randomized trial of the standardized treatment of posttraumatic stress through the internet. Journal of consulting and clinical psychology, 71(5), 901. Interapy uses a CPT approach and assigns two 45-minute writing sessions each week for five weeks. The writing sessions are assigned via the Internet and guide the participant through three phases of treatment. Medium Therapist Involvement PTSD Online is an example of an internet intervention that requires a medium level of therapist involvement. PTSD Online was created by Britt Klein and a team of psychologists in Victoria, Australia in 2010. The intervention was a ten-week interactive program that guides the participant through a different module each week. Low Therapist Involvement David Ivarsson and a team of psychologists in Sweden created an unnamed internet intervention for PTSD in 2014 that required very little therapist involvement. The intervention is an eight-week text-based intervention that delivers a different module to participants each week. Self-Guided Internet Interventions One intervention under development is Coming Home and Moving Forward. This treatment protocol has not been implemented for public use. It was utilized as a randomized control trial (RCT) to investigate if it would be a feasible tool for reducing PTSD symptoms in veterans. This intervention is meant to treat veterans who have recently moved back home from deployment, and have been using excessive amounts of substances. One of the characteristics that sets this intervention apart from other emerging internet interventions, is that it is tailored toward Vets who would rather seek help for their physical complaints, rather than focus on their psychological symptoms. Therefore, primary care providers can recommend it to their patients. This intervention applies CBT tools to treat veterans, which means it focuses on challenging distorted cognitions related to trauma, increasing coping and self-management skills, and preventing social isolation.
Internet interventions for posttraumatic stress have grown in popularity due to the limits that many patients face in their ability to seek therapy to treat their symptoms.Jian-Ping Wang, & Maercker, A. (2014). Web-based interventions for traumatized people in mainland china. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 5, 1-1. Doi:10.3402. These limits include lack of resources and residing in small towns or in the countryside.Wang, Z., Wang, J., & Maercker, A. (2013). Chinese my trauma recovery, a web-based intervention for traumatized persons in two parallel samples: Randomized controlled trial. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 15(9), 112-125. doi:10.2196 These patients may find it difficult to seek treatment because they do not have geographical access to treatment, and this can also limit the time they have to seek help. Additionally, those who live in rural areas may experience more stigma related to mental health issues. Internet interventions can increase the possibility that those who suffer from PTSD can seek help by eliminating these barriers to treatment. Therapist-assisted Internet interventions High therapist involvement One example of an internet intervention with a high level of therapist involvement is Interapy, which was created and named by Alfred Lange and a team of psychologists at the University of Amsterdam in 2003.Lange, A., Rietdijk, D., Hudcovicova, M., Van De Ven, J. P., Schrieken, B., & Emmelkamp, P. M. (2003). Interapy: a controlled randomized trial of the standardized treatment of posttraumatic stress through the internet. Journal of consulting and clinical psychology, 71(5), 901. Interapy uses a CPT approach and assigns two 45-minute writing sessions each week for five weeks. The writing sessions are assigned via the Internet and guide the participant through three phases of treatment. Medium therapist involvement PTSD Online is an example of an internet intervention that requires a medium level of therapist involvement. PTSD Online was created by Britt Klein and a team of psychologists in Victoria, Australia in 2010. The intervention was a ten-week interactive program that guides the participant through a different module each week. Low therapist involvement David Ivarsson and a team of psychologists in Sweden created an unnamed internet intervention for PTSD in 2014 that required very little therapist involvement. The intervention is an eight-week text-based intervention that delivers a different module to participants each week. Self-guided Internet interventions One intervention under development is Coming Home and Moving Forward. This treatment protocol has not been implemented for public use. It was utilized as a randomized control trial (RCT) to investigate if it would be a feasible tool for reducing PTSD symptoms in veterans. This intervention is meant to treat veterans who have recently moved back home from deployment, and have been using excessive amounts of substances. One of the characteristics that sets this intervention apart from other emerging internet interventions, is that it is tailored toward Vets who would rather seek help for their physical complaints, rather than focus on their psychological symptoms. Therefore, primary care providers can recommend it to their patients. This intervention applies CBT tools to treat veterans, which means it focuses on challenging distorted cognitions related to trauma, increasing coping and self-management skills, and preventing social isolation.
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