About the treatment
Please note that the Internet-based treatment described on this website is conducted in Swedish and only available to people registered and living in Sweden.
About the treatment
The Internet-based treatment for health anxiety is a self-help program divided into 12 parts (modules). Each module consists of a text that you read and exercises that you do. The texts can be fairly extensive and you need to be able to carry out practical exercises on your own.
You usually have to put in an average of one hour per day in the treatment process in order to fully derive the benefit of the content.
The treatment program runs over a period of 13 weeks and during that time you will have continual contact with a psychologist via messages sent to each other over the treatment's web platform.
The psychologist answers questions and gives feedback on the assignments and exercises that you do. Every week you will fill out questionnaires about your symptoms so that the psychologist can follow your progress.
The treatment focuses on different themes:
- Information about health anxiety and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
- Registering thoughts, feelings and behaviour related to health anxiety
- Mindfulness as an approach to worrying thoughts and feelings
- Stepwise exposure to health anxiety-provoking physical reactions.
- Stepwise exposure to health anxiety-provoking situations, places and activities.
- Relapse prevention, how to continue with helpful strategies after the treatment has finished
Through planned exposure you learn that anxiety provoking symptoms and situations are harmless and that the anxiety gradually reduces over time.
Please notice
The Internet-based treatment described on this website is conducted in Swedish and only available to people registered and living in Sweden.