Guided Internet Treatment of Anxiety Disorders in Adults

Abstract

Since the advent of the Internet in society there has been intensive research activity, which has now led to numerous applications of Internet-delivered cognitive-behavior therapy (ICBT) for a range of disorders, including most of the anxiety disorders. This chapter provides an overview of the guided ICBT programs that have been developed and tested in controlled trials for a range of anxiety disorders. It assesses the efficacy and effectiveness for the main anxiety disorders, and if the treatment has been directly compared with standard face-to-face treatment. A fictive clinical case treated at the Karolinska Internet Psychiatry unit in Stockholm, Sweden, is presented. Problems with the approach and the most common reasons for treatment failure are briefly discussed. There are several areas for future research. The greatest challenge is perhaps to reach other parts of the world where CBT and other evidence-based therapies are not provided at all.

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