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Computer-administered cognitive-behavioral therapy for depression

1990; American Psychiatric Association; Volume: 147; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1176/ajp.147.1.51

1535-7228

Paulette M. Selmi, M. Klein, John H. Greist, S P Sorrell, Harold P. Erdman,

Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development

The authors evaluated a six-session interactive computer cognitive-behavioral treatment program given to volunteer patients who met Research Diagnostic Criteria (RDC) for major or minor depressive disorder. Patients were randomly assigned to computer-administered cognitive-behavioral treatment, to therapist-administered cognitive-behavioral treatment, or to a waiting-list control condition. After treatment and at 2-month follow-up, both treatment groups had improved significantly more than control subjects in their scores on the Beck Depression Inventory, SCL-90-R depression and global scales, Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression, and Automatic Thoughts Questionnaire. The treatment groups did not differ from each other at either time.