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Computerized Therapy: The New Therapists?

Posted on July 02, 2008

With the question of how to pay for good psychotherapy (nevermind how to find or get good psychotherapy in the first place) not far from many people s minds, researchers are spending more time looking at alternatives to traditional but expensive face-to-face psychotherapy. While some therapists are exploring alternative realities, researchers are still focused on far more accessible, some might even say mundane, approaches. CBT4CBT is one such approach. It stands for computer-based training (CBT) for cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) (get it?). It basically teaches the componen...

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