PSYC 371 Chapter 9: Chapter 9.docx

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 371
• Professor: Brianne Layden

Document Summary

Chapter 9: behavioral activation for depression: behavioral activation: structured brief psychosocial approach to allievating depression and preventing furure relapse by focusing on behavior change, based on the idea that problems in vulnerable individuals lives and their behavioral responses reduce their ability to experience positive reward from the environment, aims to increase activation systematically in ways that help clients experience greater contact with sources of reward in their lives and to solve life problems, focuses on activation, processes that inhibit activation (escape and avoidant behaviors), increase pleasurable experiences and productive life context, behavioral models of depression, behavioral models believe that depression is due to a behavior environment relationship. Environment is thought of the settings in which beahviors occur and evolve: crucial for understanding behavioral approaches to, behavior that serves no current function is likely to have served an depression important function in the past, contingent relationship between behaviors and environemnts.