CBT Technique: Behavioral Activation
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- Опубліковано 3 лис 2014
- Behavioral activation is a technique used in CBT and behavioral therapies as a treatment for depression. Research has supported behavioral activation as a treatment for depression with outcomes comparable of those to medication. This video provides a quick overview of what behavioral activation is, and how it can be used in the course of treatment.
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"Montauk Point" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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This method works for me much better than the cognitive approach, because I am not fully aware of the content of my thoughts and their effect on how I feel. But if I set myself small straightforward tasks with visible results it makes me feel a lot better
thank you for sharing it.
i encourage anyone watching this to read about the TRAP method. at least for me, it was extremely illuminating. i found that much of my daily routine was an avoidance pattern, and most of my free time was spent ruminating
Thanks for mentioning it, I'll look into it... ... ... One day.
Thank you. I just realized a week ago that I'm in an anhedonic depression. A friend of mine recommended BA.
As someone who suffers with severe depression my therapist recommended me this video and so far everything is spot on me and hopefully I can use this to overcome my demons once and for all so I won’t end up back in my flunk again. My goal/intentions is to get better for myself, my family and my relationship. My goal is to get better and happier again without being consumed by negativity and this depressive demon I been fighting for years
8 years ago I got severely depressed and healed after about 2 years. Then for 6 years I thought I wasn’t depressed when really I was just way less depressed than I was at first. I’ve been living in perpetual depression for years and I think this is my solution. Feels like it’s gonna be a lot of work but worth it
Hope you're doing ok🙂
How are you now?
Very informative, insightful and therapeutic.
Great video! My rehab clients enjoyed learning about Behavioral Activation
exactly what I was looking for . thanks bud
Thank you for teaching and sharing.
Very helpful! Thanks!
Thanks for the video, it was really informative.
I like when he said- it’s ok to feel pressured to feel you need to do that activity you just missed. That’s what depression is. I laughed. Nice. Just get back on track for the next activity.
Great videos and great website - so useful! Thank you!!
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150,548 views Very informative, insightful and therapeutic.
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Thanks for the brief explanation. Writing an essay on this topic. Was useful to have someone put it into more simple language
As an ABA therapist AND someone who suffers depression, it seems like something is missing. It's as if the antecedent, as well as the necessity of understanding how to assess motivational and reinforcing behaviors, is not addressed? I've been stuck in a cycle with the knowledge of behaviorla activation as a therapy, and I still can't get up and brush my teeth or do simple tasks not simply because of lack of motivation, but because the other behavior I'm engaging in (laying in bed, zoning out on TV, ruminating on pain) is far more reinforcing. It's comfortable. It's easy. Absolutely it adds to more depression, but in the moment it feels far more reinforcing than getting up and doing anything. Perhaps there's further depth in the study of this therapy, but anecdotally, try adding making a schedule to the already 1200 things I'm avoiding and see how fast this therapy loses steam. It would be more effective, perhaps, if folks were given some tools or understanding of the momentary punishment (behaviorally speaking) of a seemingly reinforcing behavior. A thought exercise modeled after behavioral chaining, perhaps? Maybe it's my training to want to shape bx in a systemic way. I dunno.
Sometimes getting caught in the overt analysis of behavior is actually avoidance. What are your values? What's important to you? Do activities in line with those things. You can always lay in bed if you like. No one has to change behavior that they do not want to change. No has to change emotions that they don't want to change. Most everyone has to get up to pee in the morning - so maybe make your bed then and put a sign on it "Do not return - Get active." Yet again, there's no behavioral activation police. If you don't do it - you don't do it.
I'm unable to motivate my self full stop???
Do you have adhd?
This guy doesn't get my kind of depression.
HighTides & JamesFranklin please read Feeling Good by David Burns. everybody that's depressed thinks that their condition is one of a kind and that they are the only person in the world that can't get over the struggle. depression is very treatable if you're willing to make actual changes in the ways that keep you depressed
Meds quit working with me. B.A does nothing. I tried BA for 2 yrs with the lists and I think it made it worse.
Even better than book recommended below is 'The Keys to Unlocking Depression', way easier to deal with when depressed!!
@@doricdave7192 would you mind sharing the name of the author?
every area of behaviour is affected
I figured out in my late 20's and it cured me of my social anxiety and depression. I learned to mentally 'let go' and let my body take control so there is no negative feeling. Also started choosing quicker when choosing things on a menu and saying yes to more things and just being generally spontaneous.
How did you learn to let go? I'm just curious how you did it.
@@mathew2201 It was from experimenting with different mental sensations. The next time you feel anxious notice where in you head/mind you feel it. I noticed that I could always feel it towards the front and even feel a sense of tightening. I taught myself the sensation of letting that tension go. As a consequence I would feel a tightness more towards the back of my brain. I then trained the habit of shift the sensation everytime I would get anxious.