E-Couch

E-Couch is a web-based self-help program with modules for depression, anxiety, social anxiety, and stress-related life events (e.g., relationship breakdown, loss, and grief). The program begins with quizzes to assess the user’s mood and emotional state. At the end of these quizzes, users receive feedback on their risk level, and based on the users’ responses, E-Couch suggests the most relevant and helpful program(s). E-Couch offers 5 programs on the following topics: depression (which includes what is depression, risks and causes, treatment, and self-help strategies to prevent and deal with depression); anxiety (which includes what is excessive worrying, how to manage worrying, and different perspectives on worrying); social anxiety (which includes what is social anxiety vs. shyness, reassessing threat predictions, strategies to decrease self-consciousness, and communication tips); how to adjust to divorce and separation; and management of grief and loss. Each program contains text modules, exercises designed to help users practice self-help strategies, and quizzes with the intention of helping users understand themselves. All available programs can be completed at the user’s own pace. Users’ completed exercises and quizzes are stored in a workbook that includes a graph displaying their results as they progress through the program.