Smartphone-Based Psychotherapeutic Micro-Interventions to Improve Mood in a Real-World Setting.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Using mobile communication technology as new personalized approach to treat mental disorders or to more generally improve quality of life is highly promising. Knowledge about intervention components that target key psychopathological processes in terms of transdiagnostic psychotherapy approaches is urgently needed. We explored the use of smartphone-based micro-interventions based on psychotherapeutic techniques, guided by short video-clips, to elicit mood changes.

Method

As part of a larger neurofeedback study, all subjects-after being randomly assigned to an experimental or control neurofeedback condition-underwent daily smartphone-based micro-interventions for 13 consecutive days. They were free to choose out of provided techniques, including viscerosensory atte

SUBMITTER: Meinlschmidt G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4963605 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature