TEO: an online emotional therapy system to apply homework assignments in the Treatment of adjustment disorders

摘要

Adjustment Disorders (AD) are a very important publichealth problem. Regarding its treatment, only a series ofgeneral guidelines are available. Our research team hasdeveloped a cognitive-behavioral treatment (CBT) supportedby Virtual Reality (VR) that has shown its utilityin the treatment of AD. A CBT approach gives a crucialrole to homework assignments. So far, studies that useInformation and Communication Technologies (ICT) for psychological treatments have been centered on how touse the technologies to deliver treatment within the therapeutic c ontext. No study is avai lable in the literaturethat uses ICT to apply homework assignments. Therefore,in the present work we pretend to go one step beyondand join the use of the VR EMMA system withinthe therapy sessions, with the use of other ICT to applyhomework assignments between sessions in the treatmentof AD. TEO is a completely open Online Emotional Therapy system based on Web technology thatallows, in a simple and effective way, to create personalizedtherapeutic material to present to the patient overthe Internet. The aim of the present work is to describethe TEO system and the study that is being conducted totest its efficacy and efficiency.