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Advances in Cardiac Psychology: Computerized Therapies

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From workplace functions, to economic transactions, to interpersonal communication, computers have become nearly inseparable from today’s modern industrialized society. According to the United States Census Bureau (Day, Janus, & Davis, 2005), approximately 70 million American households (62%) had at least one computer in the home in 2003. Statistics on Internet access are even more impressive, with almost three-fourths of American adults (ages 18 years and older) online (Raine, 2010). It is not surprising, then, that public health and general medicine initiatives have increasingly included computerized technologies among the strategies for disease prevention and treatment.

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Kuhl, E.A. (2012). Advances in Cardiac Psychology: Computerized Therapies. In: Dornelas, E.A. (eds) Stress Proof the Heart. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5650-7_16

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