Client Perspectives of Case Stories in Internet-Delivered Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Public Safety Personnel: Mixed Methods Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Internet-delivered cognitive behavioral therapy (ICBT) is an effective and convenient means of offering cognitive behavioral therapy to the general population. To increase access to ICBT among Canadian public safety personnel (PSP)-a group that experiences elevated rates of mental health concerns and barriers to mental health care-a clinical research unit called PSPNET has tailored ICBT to PSP, primarily through offering case stories and PSP-specific examples within an ICBT program. PSPNET's first and most frequently used ICBT program, called the PSP Wellbeing Course, has been found to reduce symptoms of mental disorders (eg, anxiety, depression, and posttraumatic stress) among PSP. Little research, however, has investigated clients' perceptions of the case stories in th

SUBMITTER: Price JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11549581 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature