Face To Face Cbt

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Literature has found CBT to be effective, however, there is currently little research on iCBT and if Face-to-Face CBT is more effective than iCBT. According to Heimberg’s research (2002), exposure techniques are a crucial aspect when it comes to interventions in CBT. Exposure techniques are design to assist the patient in facing feared situations. It is extremely important for the patient to stay fully engaged in the anxiety provoking situations to allow the rush of anxiety to fully occur and eventually subside the symptoms of anxiety. The patient typically makes a list and ranks the list from least anxiety provoking to most anxiety provoking; this allows the patient to start small and work their way to a bigger situation. Heimberg elucidates …show more content…
“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,