Psychotherapy via Internet found as good as or better than face-to-face

Re:Psychotherapy via Internet found as good as or better tha... by pessimizer on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @10:24AM (#6133864)

I thought that it was pretty well known that all talk therapy is equally good, regardless of content or delivery system. Here's a couple other references:

Phone Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Works as Well as In-Person Therapy:

http://www.choosehelp.com/news/emotional-health/study-phone-...

Talking treatments work equally well for depression:

http://www.webmd.boots.com/depression/news/20130529/talking-...

edit: I guess it's not. It's true, though. Even religious counseling works just as well as reality-based. The content doesn't really matter.

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Re:Psychotherapy via Internet found as good as or better tha... by thelamest on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @12:52PM (#6135102)

If anyone wants to read up on this, the controversy is called Dodo bird verdict (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodo_bird_verdict).

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Re:Psychotherapy via Internet found as good as or better tha... by pessimizer on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @02:11PM (#6135716)

Thanks for this! Didn't know it had a name.

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Re:Psychotherapy via Internet found as good as or better tha... by jessriedel on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @02:51PM (#6136008)

My understanding before reading your article is that CBT had consistently outperformed other types of talk therapy for at least some problems. And indeed, wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodo_bird_verdict ) confirms there is evidence for this (although as usual everyone disputes everything). I think you are selling yourself short if you give in to the comforting simplicity of "oh, the only thing that matters is having someone to talk to". It's probably correct to first order, though.

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