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...therapy has been around almost as long as the Internet. It's closely allied to cognitive behavioral therapy, which replaces months or years on the couch with focused programs to help people change unwanted feelings and reactions by challenging the beliefs that underlie them. In the 1990s, some CBT practitioners began to wonder if the structured, learning-based treatment would also work online. At first the idea was widely seen as "wacky," says Klein. "Some people said, 'How can you establish a therapeutic relationship with someone when you don't even see them...
...Dozens of randomized controlled trials later, the wacky factor is fading. E-therapy programs are being offered or tested by reputable institutions worldwide. In Australia, Swinburne's panic-online and ptsd-online have been joined by e-Couch, for mood disorders, and MoodGYM, for depression, from the Australian National University's Centre for Mental Health Research, and by the Climate suite of programs from the Anxiety Disorders Research Unit at St. Vincent's Hospital, Sydney. The Australian Department of Health is now funding Swinburne's National e-Therapy Centre for Anxiety Disorders, which will soon offer CBT treatment via anxietyonline.org.au...
...Street as well as Wall Street, they didn't make the case until all was nearly lost that the credit crunch endangers loans for cars, homes, farms and businesses--which in turn endangers millions of jobs and pensions. "I begged them to explain this to the guy on his couch, and they never did," says Congressman Steve LaTourette, an Ohio Republican in a swing district who voted against the bailout. "They never explained why they needed all this money in a simple way to the guy with the 401(k), the guy with a small business who already pays...
...election in November but may be vulnerable because of the foreclosure crisis, says the problem is that no one has explained the bailout in terms that the public can understand. "I went to the financial services hearing and begged them to explain this to the guy on his couch, and they never did. They never really explained why they needed all this money in a simple way to the guy with the 401(k), the guy with a small business who already pays a lot in taxes, why he should support this thing. We have to make sure the taxpayer...
...hard to get a teenager off the couch and working on that all important college essay? You might blame it on their immature nucleus accumbens, a region in the frontal cortex that directs motivation to seek rewards. James Bjork at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism has been using fMRI to study motivation in a challenging gambling game. He found that teenagers have less activity in this region than adults do. "If adolescents have a motivational deficit, it may mean that they are prone to engaging in behaviors that have either a really high excitement factor...