A Comprehensive Review and a Meta-Analysis of the Effectiveness of Internet-Based Psychotherapeutic Interventions

By Azy Barak, L. Hen, Meyran Boniel-Nissim, Na'ama Shapira. 2008

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Computer-based psychological treatments for depression: a systematic review and meta-analysis. (2012, background): “The delivery of support using different modes of computer mediated communication (CMC) potentially in ﬂ uencesoutcome (Barak et al., 2008).”
Counselling Psychology and the internet: A review of the quantitative research into online outcomes and alliances within text-based therapy (2009, background): “The Barak et al. (2008) study evaluates the effectiveness of internet-based psychotherapeutic interventions and provides a comprehensive summary of 92 studies involving 9764 clients.”
Effectiveness of Web-based Psychological Interventions for Depression: A Meta-analysis (2013, methodology): “Keywords for the search were chosen based on the content of existing reviews (Andersson et al. 2007; Barak et al. 2009; Griffiths et al. 2010; Kaltenhaler et al. 2008; Marks and Cavanagh 2009) and meta-analyses (Andersson and Cuijpers 2009; Barak et al. 2008; Spek et al. 2007a).”
Persuasive System Design Does Matter: A Systematic Review of Adherence to Web-Based Interventions (2012, background): “Research has shown these interventions to be effective in different areas of health care [2-7].”
The added value of the positive: A literature review of positive psychology interventions in organizations (2013, background): “In addition, another meta-analysis has shown that there are significant age differences regarding the effectiveness of several psychotherapeutic interventions (Barak, Hen, Boniel-Nissim, & Shapira, 2008 ).”
Defining Internet-Supported Therapeutic Interventions (2009, background): “For example, a meta-analytic study of the use of e-mail, forums, websites, online audio features, or chat as supplements to either a web-based intervention or online counseling revealed that they failed to make a significant contribution to therapy outcomes [27].”
Rebooting Psychotherapy Research and Practice to Reduce the Burden of Mental Illness (2011, background): “Psychotherapy research already draws on technology, especially the delivery of direct services over the Internet for many clinical problems (e.g., anxiety, stress, pain, phobias) for the treatment of adults (e.g., Barak et al., 2008; Ritterband et al., 2003; Rochlin, Zack, & Speyer, 2004).”
Side effects in Internet-based interventions for Social Anxiety Disorder (2014, background): “Barak et al. (2008) found that 75 out of 746 calculated effect sizes were zero or negative (10.1%).”
A Systematic Review of the Impact of Adherence on the Effectiveness of e-Therapies (2011, positive): “Recent reviews have shown that e-therapies are both effective [1-3] and growing in popularity.”
Delivering Cognitive Behavior Therapy to Young Adults With Symptoms of Depression and Anxiety Using a Fully Automated Conversational Agent (Woebot): A Randomized Controlled Trial (2017, background): “Internet interventions for anxiety and depression have empirical support [6] with outcomes comparable to therapist-delivered cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) [7,8].”
Effectiveness of telemedicine: A systematic review of reviews (2010, background): “[15] Mental health Not stated Internet based psychotherapy Behavioural, Health, Perception/satisfaction, Social Sixty-four studies included services.”
A Behavior Change Model for Internet Interventions (2009, background): “Although there has been a recent proliferation of Internet health interventions [1,4,10], there has been no published theoretical model underlying these programs.”
Effectiveness of online mindfulness-based interventions in improving mental health: A review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials. (2016, background): “…online interventions in the context of public mental health are a promising strategy to alleviate psychological symptomatology and reduce the prevalence of severemental health problems (Barak et al., 2008; Fledderus, Bohlmeijer, Pieterse, & Schreurs, 2012; Pots et al., 2016; Ybarra & Eaton, 2005).”
Computerised Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for the Prevention and Treatment of Depression and Anxiety in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review (2010, result): “However, the results from meta-analyses with adults suggest that cCBT is more effective for anxiety than depression (Barak et al. 2008; Spek et al. 2007).”