'Phone Therapy Helps With Depression' By Leslie Wade

The article “Phone therapy helps with depression, study says” by Leslie Wade talks about how people who get therapy over the phone drop out less than people who talk to their therapist in person and get better at the same rate. This article mentions how therapy through technology can be a useful strategy. 325 people with major depression where tested.
The article later then mentions how 6 months after therapy the people who got therapy over the phone benefited less than the people who talked in person with their therapist. The person who did the study gives a reason for this and he says that it could be because people who talked on the phone where easier to retain and they were people that would have dropped out if they meet in person and these people may have a lot more difficulties in their lives.
21 to 30 million Americans each year are affected by depression and depression is common. Treatment is critical for depression and expert’s state that psychotherapy which is also known as talk therapy, is highly effective but most people who get referred for in person counseling don’t go. This could be because people don’t have time or there are transportation issues or a disability that limits them. Researchers say that out of the people who do manage to start therapy more than half drop out. In the past there was an assumption of why these people

But this being said there are people that need to meet in person because phone therapy isn’t the best for certain people. Phone treatment means easier access but with severe forms of mental illness it is not enough, this illness needs a person to person meeting. Also intimacy and certain body language clues are not there in phone therapy. But Mohr argues this is not the case because therapist and the patients can have a deep and meaningful talk on the phone as in