Online Mental Health Programs
Online Mental Health Programs
Mental Health Online provides comprehensive and effective online services and programs to address mental health issues. If you’re experiencing mental distress these services can help you understand and address your needs through self-assessment, self-help and online professional support. This is an initiative of Swinburne University’s National eTherapy Centre (NeTC) and funded by Australia’s Federal Department of Health.
Mental Health Online Provides:
- High quality information and resources to help you understand mental health difficulties and their treatment.
- A comprehensive online psychological assessment program (e-PASS) to help you assess the type and severity of difficulties you may be experiencing.
- Free 12-week online evidence-based treatment programs which you can complete in your own time with programs for: generalised anxiety disorder, depression, social anxiety disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, panic disorder with or without agoraphobia and depression-anxiety.
- Free optional access to eTherapists to support you through your treatment program. This is provided via email, but you can also add free video or instant messaging sessions.
Depression Online
Depression Online is designed to help you learn and implement skills and strategies that help manage depression and improve your overall mental health and wellbeing. Depression Online has 11 modules that you can do in your own time and have access to for 12 months. It provides information about depression and introduces skills and strategies that can help you to:
- Identify the symptoms of depression
- Start using activity to improve your mood
- Discover and challenge unhelpful thoughts
- Boost your wellbeing by making lifestyle changes
- Plan to maintain your mental health gains after the course
The Panic STOP! Program
The Panic STOP! Program contains a range of resources designed to help you manage panic and agoraphobia. You will increase your understanding of panic attacks and panic disorder and learn the skills and strategies useful for managing panic. The Panic STOP! program has 12 modules that you can do in your own time and have access to for 12 months. It provides information about Panic Disorder, with or without agoraphobia, and introduces skills and strategies that can help you to:
- Identify the symptoms of Panic Disorder
- Self-monitor your specific panic symptoms and mood
- Gain control of physical reactions
- Learn how to cope with, and reduce panic attacks
- Learn relaxation techniques
- Make lifestyle changes to improve your wellbeing
Social Anxiety Online
Social Anxiety Online is designed to help you learn and implement skills and strategies that help manage social anxiety and may improve your overall mental health and wellbeing. The Social Anxiety Program has 12 modules that you can do in your own time and have access to for 12 months. It provides information about social anxiety and introduces skills and strategies that can help you to:
- Identify and monitor the symptoms of social anxiety
- Learn relaxation and breathing techniques to reduce social anxiety symptoms
- Discover and challenge unhelpful thoughts
- Boost your wellbeing by making lifestyle changes
- Face feared social situations using exposure therapy
- Plan to maintain your mental health gains after the course
The Depression-Anxiety Program
The Depression-Anxiety Program is designed to help you manage the symptoms of depression and anxiety at the same time. The Depression-Anxiety Program has 12 modules that you can do in your own time and have access to for 12 months. Overall, the program will help you understand the symptoms you have been experiencing and teach you strategies to improve your wellbeing and mental health. The content aims to provide useful information and to introduce skills that can help you to manage symptoms and alleviate distress. You can do Depression-Anxiety at your own pace and engage with the materials you find most helpful.
OCD STOP!
OCD STOP! is designed to help you understand more about Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and to learn strategies to better manage OCD. You will learn a range of techniques to help you change your behaviour and thinking styles, to put you on the road to improving the management of OCD. The OCD STOP! program has 12 modules that you can do in your own time and have access to for 12 months. Our program combines cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) with exposure and response prevention therapy (ERPT) which is considered the most effective treatment for OCD. It provides information about OCD and introduces skills and strategies that can help you to:
- Improve your understanding of OCD
- Learn practical techniques to manage anxiety in OCD
- Discover ways to manage intrusive thoughts
- Be guided through exposure and how to manage your responses
- Learn how to maintain the gains from the course
The Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Program
The Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Program is designed to help you understand and manage symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder and helps you to learn how to change the unhelpful thoughts and beliefs maintaining PTSD. It can also teach you useful distraction and relaxation techniques, and ways to reduce stress or physical symptoms. The PTSD Online program has 12 modules that you can do in your own time and have access to for 12 months. It provides information about PTSD and helps you to understand why it develops. PTSD Online also introduces the skills and strategies that can help you to:
- Identify the symptoms of PTSD
- Learn relaxation techniques including progressive muscle relaxation
- Gain control of physical reactions
- Learn how to change any unhelpful thoughts and beliefs maintaining PTSD
- Plan to maintain your mental health gains after the course
The Anxiety and Worry Program
The Anxiety and Worry Program is designed to help you understand the nature of anxiety and worry and to learn the skills and strategies that help manage anxiety and improve overall mental health and wellbeing. The Anxiety and Worry program has 12 modules that you can do in your own time and have access to for 12 months. It provides information about anxiety and introduces skills and strategies that can help you to:
- Understand and identify anxiety and worry
- Monitor and reduce specific anxiety symptoms
- Gain control of physical reactions
- Identify and replace unhelpful beliefs and ways of thinking
- Learn problem-solving techniques
- Make lifestyle changes to improve your wellbeing