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Behavioral activation: the small-actions intervention for depression

The Center for Anxiety and Traumatic Stress on the deceptively simple, well-evidenced behavioral therapy for depression.

Centre for Clinical Interventions (Australia)6 min readSelected and edited by Dean ShabanAdded

Behavioral activation is the part of CBT for depression that often does the most work: scheduling small, values-aligned actions and noticing what happens. The Centre for Clinical Interventions in Western Australia produces some of the best free CBT workbooks in English.

Their depression workbook is a usable self-help adaptation of the modality, free, and appropriate for trying alongside (not instead of) treatment.

Open at Centre for Clinical Interventions (Australia)

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