Helping clients think through their causal models: application to counseling clients to exercise.

This article presents a model for therapy using active investigation of causal attributions made by the client. Causal attributions guide behavior. Often wrong attributions (excuses) force the individual to waste effort and time in making changes that do not lead to desired behavior.

Designing websites for persons with cognitive deficits: Design and usability of a psychoeducational intervention for persons with severe mental illness.

The purpose of this study was to develop an understanding of the design elements that influence the ability of persons with severe mental illness (SMI) and cognitive deficits to use a website, and to use this knowledge to design a web-based telehealth application to deliver a psychoeducation program to persons with schizophrenia and their families. Usability testing was conducted with 98 persons with SMI. First, individual website design elements were tested.

Therapeutic emails.

Background: In this paper, we show how counselors and psychologists can use emails for online management of substance abusers, including the anatomy and content of emails that clinicians should send substance abusers. Some investigators have attempted to determine if providing mental health services online is an efficacious delivery of treatment. The question of efficacy is an empirical issue that cannot be settled unless we are explicitly clear about the content and nature of online treatment.

A qualitative needs assessment of persons who have experienced traumatic brain injury and their primary family caregivers.

Objectives: To determine the expressed needs of persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and their primary family caregivers.

Design: Semistructured interviews with content-analytic techniques to identify respondents' needs.

Participants: Eighty persons with TBI, with an average time since their most severe TBI of 5.

An interactive Web-based intervention for persons with TBI and their families: use and evaluation by female significant others.

Objective: To assess the feasibility of providing in-home adjunctive and supportive services to persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and their families via a Web site.

Design: Nineteen families were provided with access to the Web site intervention for 6 months. Those who needed it were provided with a computer and Internet service in their homes.