Guided Internet-Based Treatments in Psychiatry

Introduction (including definitions and history).- Depression.- Panic disorder and agoraphobia.- Social anxiety disorder.- Specific phobia.- Generalised anxiety disorder.- Obsessive-compulsive disorder.- PTSD.- Insomnia.- Health anxiety (Illness anxiety disorder).- Eating disorders- Substance abuse.- Pathological gambling.- ICBT with children and adolescents.- ICBT with older people.- Future directions and new technologies.

Nils Lindefors (NL), MD, PhD, graduated at Karolinska Institutet 1982. He subsequently combined basic clinical training in hospitals in the Stockholm area with a PhD program in pharmacology in professor Urban Ungerstedt´s lab. In 1987 Nils Lindefors defended a PhD thesis on Brain tachykinins and their interaction with dopaminergic transmission. Supported with part time postdoc stipends from the Medical Research Council Nils Lindefors studied molecular neurobiology in late Håkan Person lab and was appointed associate professor in pharmacology at Karolinska Institutet 1990. During the 90-ties Nils Lindefors finalised specialist training in psychiatry at the Karolinska Hospital. Nils Lindefors became specialist in psychiatry 1997 and appointed as consultant at the department of Psychiatry at the Karolinska Hospital and associate professor in psychiatry at Karolinska Institutet at 1999. Nils Lindefors was regional coordinator in Scandinavia of the EUFEST study of antipsychotic treatment in first-episode schizophrenia and PI of an RCT with Methylphenidate treatment of adult male prison inmates with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. Nils Lindefors has been PI or involved in a substantial number of RCTs on internet-based cognitive behaviour therapy, mainly integrated in psychiatric practice. The research interest of Nils Lindefors is currently in the area of psychiatric treatments and health economy and has published more than 130 peer-reviewed journal articles. Gerhard Andersson, PhD, graduated as clinical psychologist at Uppsala University, Sweden in 1991, where subsequently did his PhD in clinical psychology in 1995. Five years later he did a second PhD in medicine. The focus then was on auditory disorders such as hearing loss, tinnitus and dizziness. Following a post-doc and University College London, he was appointed associate professor in 1997. The year after he began research on internet-delivered cognitive behaviour therapy, and was one of the first in the

"This book discusses research into internet-based programs to address this issue. ... This book primarily targets individuals within the mental health system who are treating, evaluating, or referring patients for therapy services, namely CBT, as well as those researching it in its various forms. ... While the idea behind this book is quite interesting, and the research it discusses is revealing and promising, the book appears more useful for those actively involved in research related to this topic ... ." (Steven T. Herron, Doody's Book Reviews, May, 2016)