Computer-Based Psychotherapy Not as Effective as Standard Care

http://consumer.healthday.com/bone-and-joint-information-4/computer-related-health-news-143/computer-cbt-depression-705131.html Cognitive behavioral therapy — a form of talk therapy — is an effective treatment for depression. However, in-person therapy is not always available, so computer-assisted therapy was developed as a substitute. But until now, the effectiveness of computer-assisted therapy hadn’t been studied. The study included almost 700 British patients with depression who were randomly…