Brief Behavioural Activation for Adolescent Depression: A Clinician’s Manual and Session-by-Session Guide

✍ Scribed by Laura Pass, Shirley Reynolds

• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 268
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A comprehensive, accessible guide to Brief Behavioural Activation, a structured intervention for treating adolescents with depression. It provides guidance on every stage of delivering the process in practice, with photocopiable worksheets, and a section on the theory behind the approach. Suitable for both new and experienced practitioners.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgements
Part 1. Introduction
1. Getting Started: How to Use this Manual
Part 2. How to Deliver Brief BA: The Treatment Manual
2. How to Assess Adolescent Depression
3. Brief BA Sessions 1 and 2: Getting to Know the Young Person Better
4. Brief BA Session 3: What Matters to the Young Person?
5. Brief BA Sessions 4 and Beyond: Doing More of What Matters
6. Brief BA Session 6 (and Elsewhere When Needed): Scaffolding and Support
7. Brief BA Sessions 7 and Beyond: Keeping Things Going
8. Ending Therapy and Living a Valued Life
Part 3. The Theory and Research behind Brief BA (the ‘Why’)
9. The Unique Challenge of Adolescent Depression
10. Getting to Know the Young Person and Keeping Them Safe
11. Rewards and Reinforcement: The Behavioural Theory of Depression
12. Why ‘What Matters to You’ is Important
13. Brief BA Therapeutic Techniques and Strategies
14. The Evidence Base for Behavioural Activation for Depression
Part 4. Brief BA Session Checklists and Worksheets
References
Further Reading and Resources
Subject Index
Author Index