Navigating the development and dissemination of internet cognitive behavioral therapy (iCBT) for anxiety disorders in children and young people: A consensus statement with recommendations from the #iCBTLorentz Workshop Group

Claire Hill; Cathy Creswell; Sarah Vigerland; Maaike H Nauta; Sonja March; Caroline Donovan; Lidewij Wolters; Susan H Spence; Jennifer L Martin; Lori Wozney; Lauren McLellan; Leonie Kreuze; Karen Gould; Maral Jolstedt; Martina Nord; Jennifer L Hudson; Elisabeth Utens; Jeroen Ruwaard; Casper Albers; Muniya Khanna; Anne Marie Albano; Eva Serlachius; Stefan Hrastinski; Philip C Kendall

doi:10.1016/j.invent.2018.02.002

Navigating the development and dissemination of internet cognitive behavioral therapy (iCBT) for anxiety disorders in children and young people: A consensus statement with recommendations from the #iCBTLorentz Workshop Group

Internet Interv. 2018 Feb 19:12:1-10. doi: 10.1016/j.invent.2018.02.002. eCollection 2018 Jun.

Authors

Claire Hill¹, Cathy Creswell¹, Sarah Vigerland^{2

3}, Maaike H Nauta⁴, Sonja March⁵, Caroline Donovan⁶, Lidewij Wolters^{7

8}, Susan H Spence⁹, Jennifer L Martin¹⁰, Lori Wozney¹¹, Lauren McLellan¹², Leonie Kreuze⁴, Karen Gould¹², Maral Jolstedt^{2

3}, Martina Nord^{2

3}, Jennifer L Hudson¹², Elisabeth Utens^{8

13

14}, Jeroen Ruwaard¹⁵, Casper Albers¹⁶, Muniya Khanna^{17

18}, Anne Marie Albano¹⁹, Eva Serlachius^{2

3}, Stefan Hrastinski²⁰, Philip C Kendall²¹

Affiliations

¹ School of Psychology & Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading, UK.
² Centre for Psychiatry Research, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden.
³ Stockholm Health Care Services, Stockholm County Council, Sweden.
⁴ Clinical Psychology and Experimental Psychopathology, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
⁵ School of Psychology and Counselling & Institute for Resilient Regions, University of Southern Queensland, Australia.
⁶ School of Applied Psychology, Griffith University, Australia.
⁷ Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Faculty of Medicine, Regional Centre for Child and Youth Mental Health and Child Welfare (RKBU Central Norway), Trondheim, Norway.
⁸ Academic Center for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, de Bascule, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
⁹ Australian Institute of Suicide Research and Prevention and School of Applied Psychology, Griffith University, Australia.
¹⁰ NIHR MindTech Cooperative, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, University of Nottingham, UK.
¹¹ Centre for Research in Family Health, IWK Health Centre, Halifax, Canada.
¹² Centre for Emotional Health, Department of Psychology, Macquarie University, Australia.
¹³ Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry/Psychology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
¹⁴ Research Institute of Child Development and Education, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
¹⁵ Department of Clinical Psychology, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
¹⁶ Department of Psychometrics & Statistics, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
¹⁷ OCD & Anxiety Institute, Plymouth Meeting, PA, USA.
¹⁸ Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
¹⁹ Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center, USA.
²⁰ Department of Learning, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.
²¹ Child & Adolescent Anxiety Disorders Clinic, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Abstract

Initial internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy (iCBT) programs for anxiety disorders in children and young people (CYP) have been developed and evaluated, however these have not yet been widely adopted in routine practice. The lack of guidance and formalized approaches to the development and dissemination of iCBT has arguably contributed to the difficulty in developing iCBT that is scalable and sustainable beyond academic evaluation and that can ultimately be adopted by healthcare providers. This paper presents a consensus statement and recommendations from a workshop of international experts in CYP anxiety and iCBT (#iCBTLorentz Workshop Group) on the development, evaluation, engagement and dissemination of iCBT for anxiety in CYP.

Keywords: Adolescents; Anxiety; Children; Cognitive behavioral therapy; Development; Dissemination; Online treatments.

Grants and funding

RP_2014-04-018/DH_/Department of Health/United Kingdom