A critical review of assessment strategies to measure the behavioral activation model of depression

2010 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 547-561 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel C. Manos ◽  
Jonathan W. Kanter ◽  
Andrew M. Busch
Keyword(s):  
Critical Review ◽  
Behavioral Activation ◽  
Activation Model ◽  
Assessment Strategies

Preliminary Assessment of the Behavioral Activation Model in Japanese Undergraduate Students

2013 ◽  
Vol 112 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Koki Takagaki ◽  
Isa Okajima ◽  
Shun Nakajima ◽  
Shin-Ichi Ishikawa ◽  
Yoshihiko Kunisato ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Positive Reinforcement ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Behavioral Activation ◽  
Social Contact ◽  
Depressive Mood ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Activation Model ◽  
School Students ◽  
Contact Frequency

Many studies have reported that behavioral activation is an effective intervention for depression. The behavioral activation model is based on several formulations. For example, depressive mood leads to avoidant behaviors, avoidance negatively affects social contacts, decreased socialization lessens opportunities for positive reinforcement, and a decrease in positive reinforcement results in more depressive mood. The purpose of this study was to examine relationships among avoidant behavior, social contact, frequency of positive reinforcement, and depressive mood by using structural equation modeling to assess support for aspects of this behavioral activation model. Participants were 630 Japanese undergraduate students and vocational school students. Results provided preliminary support for the model. Treating both avoidance and activating behavior might contribute to decreased impairment.

Erratum

2013 ◽  
Vol 112 (2) ◽  
pp. 577-577
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Negative Correlation ◽  
Positive Reinforcement ◽  
Behavioral Activation ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Social Contact ◽  
Depressive Mood ◽  
Path Coefficient ◽  
Activation Model ◽  
Moderate Negative Correlation

Takagaki, K., Okajima, I., Kunisato, Y., Nakajima, S., Kanai, Y., Ishikawa, S-I., & Sakano, Y. (2013)) Preliminary assessment of the behavioral activation model in Japanese undergraduate students. Psychological Reports, 112, 1, 47–59. The last seven lines of page 54 and the first four lines of page 55 should be cor-rected to read as follows: “The results suggest that depressive mood has a moderate positive relation-ship with avoidance (path coefficient = .44), a small but negative relationship with activation (path coefficient = −.25), and no significant relationship to attenuation of social contact. Avoidance was positively related to attenuation of social contact (path coefficient = .78). Activation had a moderate negative correlation with attenuation of social contact (path coefficient = −.41). Attenuation of social contact had a moderate negative correlation with frequency of positive reinforcement (path coefficient = −.53). In addition, frequency of positive reinforcement had a moderate negative correlation with depressive mood (path coefficient = −.48; Fig. 4).

An Evaluation of the Behavioral Activation Model of Psychotherapy in a Community Sample in Japan

2018 ◽  
Vol 122 (5) ◽  
pp. 1678-1688
Author(s):  
Tatsuya Yamamoto ◽  
Ikki Hikida ◽  
Yusuke Shudo ◽  
Makoto Sakai
Keyword(s):  
Indirect Effects ◽  
Positive Reinforcement ◽  
Behavioral Activation ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
Direct Effects ◽  
Mediation Model ◽  
Activation Model ◽  
Healthy Behaviors ◽  
Avoidance Behaviors ◽  
The Difference

Behavioral activation is a brief, structured psychotherapy. It focuses on avoidance behaviors as well as activation of healthy behaviors, which together lead to the improvement in depression through increase in positive reinforcement. This study examined this mediation model in a community sample in Japan. The participants were 661 people (323 men and 338 women). Their average age was 36.98 years ( SD = 12.91). Mediation analysis supported a partial mediation model and showed that activation and avoidance have direct effects on depression as well as indirect effects through positive reinforcement. The difference between the results of this study and those of the previous studies, which supported a complete mediation model, may occur because of characteristics of the community sample as distinct from previous studies’ undergraduate samples.

Semi-synthesis as a tool for broadening the health applications of bioactive olive secoiridoids: a critical review

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuela Oliverio ◽  
Monica Nardi ◽  
Maria Luisa Di Gioia ◽  
Paola Costanzo ◽  
Sonia Bonacci ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Critical Review ◽  
Natural Compounds ◽  
Effective Strategy ◽  
Synthetic Analogues ◽  
Health Applications ◽  
Natural And Synthetic

Semi-synthesis is an effective strategy to obtain both natural and synthetic analogues of the olive secoiridoids, starting from easy accessible natural compounds.

All in the Family: An Overview of Assessment Strategies

1989 ◽  
Vol 34 (11) ◽  
pp. 993-994
Author(s):  
Donald H. Baucom
Keyword(s):  
The Family ◽  
Assessment Strategies
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