On-line education with chat room support for eating disorders, on-line self-help support for depression, on-line treatment for panic disorder, on-line and phone-based help for sexual problems, and phone therapy with miscarriage sufferers have been recently studied as reported in recent journal articles. While this is exciting and concerning at the same time, these studies is only a beginning of a new area of research in providing mental health services.

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Mental health counseling given over the phone may ease some women's depression symptoms after a miscarriage, a small pilot study suggests. The therapy was offered to women with "subsyndromal" depression, which is less severe than major clinical depression but still causes significant symptoms -- such as sleep disturbances, chronic lack of energy, appetite changes and feelings of hopelessness.

Past studies have shown that women who suffer a miscarriage are at risk not only of major depression, but of the considerably more common subsyndromal depression as well.

This latest study, reported in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, was a pilot project testing whether phone-based counseling could help women with milder depression following a miscarriage. Such therapy aims to overcome some of the obstacles that keep people from in-person mental health counseling, like lack of time or reluctance to talk face-to-face. Of the 19 women researchers followed, those who received counseling over the phone a handful of times showed a greater decline in depression symptoms. MORE

Thanks for Psych Central for the links.