Working From Home: An Initial Pilot Examination of Videoconferencing-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Anxious Youth Delivered to the Home Setting.

ABSTRACT: Progress in evidence-based treatments for child anxiety has been hampered by limited accessibility of quality care. This study utilized a multiple baseline design to evaluate the pilot feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of real-time, Internet-delivered, family-based cognitive-behavioral therapy for child anxiety delivered to the home setting via videoconferencing. Participants included 13 anxious youth (mean age = 9.85) with a primary/co-primary anxiety disorder diagnosis. Eleven participants (84.6%) completed treatment and all study procedures. Consistent with hypotheses, the intervention was feasible and acceptable to families (i.e., high treatment retention, high client satisfaction, strong therapeutic alliance, and low barriers to participation). Moreover, the novel v

SUBMITTER: Carpenter AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6190606 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature