“The efficacy of iCBT should be offered to individuals with depression, panic or social phobia as a standard of care and that Face-to-Face CBT should be reserved, in a stepped care design for people who have not benefited sufficiently from iCBT” (Andrews et. al, p. 340, 2011). Moreover, in the study conducted by Pier, C., Austin, D. W., Klein, B., Mitchell, J., Schattner, P., Ciechomski, L., & Wade, V. (2008), it was found that iCBT with General Practitioner support improved symptoms, quality of life, and functioning. The benefit of this is that it relieves pressure on GP’s and …show more content…
In Heimberg research, Safren (1997) elucidated that it has been found that individuals that suffer from an anxiety disorder report a lower quality of life than a normative sample. Patients that received CBT treatment exhibited substantial improvements in their quality of life, even after the six month follow up assessment. This concludes that CBT is able to increase an individual’s quality of life that suffers from anxiety disorders and decrease their symptoms, but does not exhibit whether iCBT is better than traditional CBT (Heimberg,