Dr DAvid Tuller: Australia's Online CBT/GET Online Education Programme

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http://www.virology.ws/2018/05/14/trial-by-error-australias-online-get-cbt-education-program/

Trial By Error: Australia’s Online GET/CBT Education Program
14 MAY 2018
By David Tuller, DrPH

Last year, BMJ Open published a paper called “Randomised controlled trial of online continuing education for health professionals to improve the management of chronic fatigue syndrome: a study protocol.” The seven authors, all affiliated with the University of New South Wales in Sydney, included Professor Andrew Lloyd, the infectious disease expert and the country’s leading proponent for the GET/CBT rehabilitative approach to the illness he prefers to call CFS.

Professor Lloyd was the second-to-last author, not the first or senior (and corresponding) author. But the online continuing education program described in the protocol reflects the approach he has pioneered at his Sydney fatigue clinic. This online program is designed for allied health professionals—physiotherapists, exercise physiologists, psychologists, and others outside the domains of medicine. The program promotes graded exercise therapy and cognitive behavior therapy as “evidence-based” treatments for the illness.