Room Paradise Ballroom A

Speaker(s):

Description

Behavioral Activation is a psychological treatment approach that helps us connect with and routinely involve ourselves in personally rewarding activities. Many mental health problems can make it challenging to concentrate on, engage in, and appreciate positive experiences. This is sometimes called “reward dysregulation” by scientists and may involve parts of the brain that process emotions. First developed and still used as a very effective treatment strategy for depression, clinical research now shows that this approach can help with a range of mental health concerns such as PTSD, anxiety, chronic pain, eating disorders, distressed relationships, along with others.

Objectives

• • Describe the rationale for behavioral activation as a transdiagnostic change process
  • Explain the culturally – responsive features of behavioral activation.
  • Identify within-session strategies to improve effectiveness of BA.