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“On My Own, but Not Alone” - Adolescents’ Experiences of Internet-Delivered Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

INTRODUCTION: Childhood Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a prevalent and impairing condition that can be effectively treated with Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT). However, a majority of children and adolescents do not have access to CBT. Internet-delivered CBT (ICBT) has been suggested as a w...

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Autores principales: Lenhard, Fabian, Vigerland, Sarah, Engberg, Hedvig, Hallberg, Anna, Thermaenius, Hanna, Serlachius, Eva
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Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5053512/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27711249
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0164311
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author Lenhard, Fabian
Vigerland, Sarah
Engberg, Hedvig
Hallberg, Anna
Thermaenius, Hanna
Serlachius, Eva
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Vigerland, Sarah
Engberg, Hedvig
Hallberg, Anna
Thermaenius, Hanna
Serlachius, Eva
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description INTRODUCTION: Childhood Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a prevalent and impairing condition that can be effectively treated with Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT). However, a majority of children and adolescents do not have access to CBT. Internet-delivered CBT (ICBT) has been suggested as a way to increase availability to effective psychological treatments. Yet, the research on ICBT in children and adolescents has been lagging behind significantly both when it comes to quantitative as well as qualitative studies. The aim of the current study was to describe the experience of ICBT in adolescents with OCD. METHOD: Eight adolescents with OCD that had received ICBT were interviewed with qualitative methodology regarding their experiences of the intervention. Data was summarized into thematic categories. RESULTS: Two overarching themes were identified, autonomy and support, each consisting of three primary themes (self-efficacy, flexibility, secure self-disclosure and clinician support, parental support, identification/normalization, respectively). CONCLUSIONS: The experiential hierarchical model that was identified in this study is, in part, transferrable to previous research. In addition, it highlights the need of further study of important process variables of ICBT in young patient populations.
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spelling pubmed-50535122016-10-27 “On My Own, but Not Alone” - Adolescents’ Experiences of Internet-Delivered Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Lenhard, Fabian Vigerland, Sarah Engberg, Hedvig Hallberg, Anna Thermaenius, Hanna Serlachius, Eva PLoS One Research Article INTRODUCTION: Childhood Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a prevalent and impairing condition that can be effectively treated with Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT). However, a majority of children and adolescents do not have access to CBT. Internet-delivered CBT (ICBT) has been suggested as a way to increase availability to effective psychological treatments. Yet, the research on ICBT in children and adolescents has been lagging behind significantly both when it comes to quantitative as well as qualitative studies. The aim of the current study was to describe the experience of ICBT in adolescents with OCD. METHOD: Eight adolescents with OCD that had received ICBT were interviewed with qualitative methodology regarding their experiences of the intervention. Data was summarized into thematic categories. RESULTS: Two overarching themes were identified, autonomy and support, each consisting of three primary themes (self-efficacy, flexibility, secure self-disclosure and clinician support, parental support, identification/normalization, respectively). CONCLUSIONS: The experiential hierarchical model that was identified in this study is, in part, transferrable to previous research. In addition, it highlights the need of further study of important process variables of ICBT in young patient populations. Public Library of Science 2016-10-06 /pmc/articles/PMC5053512/ /pubmed/27711249 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0164311 Text en © 2016 Lenhard et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Engberg, Hedvig
Hallberg, Anna
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“On My Own, but Not Alone” - Adolescents’ Experiences of Internet-Delivered Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
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title_fullStr “On My Own, but Not Alone” - Adolescents’ Experiences of Internet-Delivered Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
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title_short “On My Own, but Not Alone” - Adolescents’ Experiences of Internet-Delivered Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
title_sort “on my own, but not alone” - adolescents’ experiences of internet-delivered cognitive behavior therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5053512/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27711249
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0164311
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