Self-help—online

Identifying and definitional attributes

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Self-help—online includes structured interactive online programs which take people, who have a lived experience of mental illness, through exercises to help them develop skills to handle life's challenges more effectively.

Unlike Counselling, support, information and referral–online, services which fall under Self-help—online never involve interaction with another person, only interaction with the online program’s content.

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Mental health non-government organisation establishments service type taxonomy.

Collection and usage attributes

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Distinguishing features:

  • Population-based (rather than individually-tailored)
  • Conducted online
  • Not individually facilitated by another person
  • Available 24 hours a day

Inclusions:

  • Cognitive behaviour therapy- (CBT) based programs
  • Interpersonal psychotherapy- (IPT) based programs

Exclusions:

  • Mutual support and self-help activities which incidentally occur online, e.g. online support groups (these services are not currently reported in the Mental health non-government organisation establishments NBEDS)

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:Help on this term

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Relational attributes

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Supersedes Self-help—online
  • Health, Superseded 16/01/2020
Metadata items which use this glossary item:Help on this term
Counselling, support, information and referral—online
Mental health non-government organisation payments cluster
Mutual support and self-help