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An Uncontrolled Evaluation of Group Behavioural Activation for Depression

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2008

Simon Houghton ,
Joe Curran  and
Dave Saxon
Simon Houghton*
Affiliation:
Sheffield Care Trust, UK
Joe Curran
Affiliation:
Sheffield Care Trust, UK
Dave Saxon
Affiliation:
Sheffield Care Trust, UK
*
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Abstract

Behavioural Activation is a contemporary contextual psychological treatment for depression. The outcome of a series of five treatment groups involving a total of 42 patients presenting to a psychotherapy department with self-reported depression is reported. Three of the treatment groups were delivered by two cognitive behavioural psychotherapists, two of the groups were delivered by a single cognitive behavioural psychotherapist and a trainee with no previous experience of the approach. The results suggest that group Behavioural Activation is an effective and tolerable treatment as indicated by BDI-II, CORE scores and the low drop-out rate. The methodological limitations of the findings are discussed.

Keywords

Behavioural activationbehaviour therapyfunctional contextualismacceptancedepression
Type
Brief Clinical Reports
Information
Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 36 , Issue 2 , March 2008 , pp. 235 - 239
Copyright
Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 2008

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