Beating the Blues US With Brief Coaching Has Wichita Residents Feeling Better

The calls for help have always come in many ways: by e-mail, through a county crisis/suicide prevention hotline, from physician or self-referrals by phone, or straight into the front door of COMCARE, the county mental health authority and safety-net provider serving the city of Wichita and Sedgwick County, Kansas. When those calls involved people struggling with depression and anxiety, COMCARE’s usual course of treatment has included assessment, generally followed by medication and referral to group therapy. But two years ago, COMCARE offered a new treatment option, a computerized cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) program called Beating . . .