TY - JOUR
T1 - Exploring sudden gains in behavioral activation therapy for Major Depressive Disorder
AU - Hunnicutt-Ferguson, Kallio
AU - Hoxha, Denada
AU - Gollan, Jackie
N1 - Funding Information:
This project was supported in part by an NIMH R21 MH082133 research grant, as well as by the Brain Research Foundation, American Foundation of Suicide Prevention, Educational Foundation of America, and National Alliance for Research for Schizophrenia and Depression. None of these funding sources held a role in study design, or in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data, or in the writing of the report, or in the decision to submit the paper for publication.
PY - 2012/3
Y1 - 2012/3
N2 - Understanding the onset and course of sudden gains in treatment provides clinical information to the patient and clinician, and encourages clinicians to strive for these sudden clinical gains with their patients. This study characterizes the occurrence of sudden gains with Behavioral Activation (BA; Martell, Addis, & Jacobson, 2001), and the extent to which pre-treatment dysfunctional depressive thinking predicts sudden gains during treatment. We enrolled a sample of adults (n = 42) between ages 18-65 diagnosed with primary Major Depressive Disorder. All participants completed a 16-week course of BA, with clinical and self-report assessments at pre-, mid- and post-treatment. Results indicated that sudden gain and non-sudden gain participants showed differential improvement across treatment. No significant effects emerged for the dysfunctional cognitive style as a predictor of sudden gain status. Sudden gains may result from interaction of non-specific factors with the BA techniques implemented during early phases of therapy.
AB - Understanding the onset and course of sudden gains in treatment provides clinical information to the patient and clinician, and encourages clinicians to strive for these sudden clinical gains with their patients. This study characterizes the occurrence of sudden gains with Behavioral Activation (BA; Martell, Addis, & Jacobson, 2001), and the extent to which pre-treatment dysfunctional depressive thinking predicts sudden gains during treatment. We enrolled a sample of adults (n = 42) between ages 18-65 diagnosed with primary Major Depressive Disorder. All participants completed a 16-week course of BA, with clinical and self-report assessments at pre-, mid- and post-treatment. Results indicated that sudden gain and non-sudden gain participants showed differential improvement across treatment. No significant effects emerged for the dysfunctional cognitive style as a predictor of sudden gain status. Sudden gains may result from interaction of non-specific factors with the BA techniques implemented during early phases of therapy.
KW - Behavioral activation
KW - Major depression
KW - Sudden gains
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U2 - 10.1016/j.brat.2012.01.005
DO - 10.1016/j.brat.2012.01.005
M3 - Article
C2 - 22336434
AN - SCOPUS:84858003647
SN - 0005-7967
VL - 50
SP - 223
EP - 230
JO - Behaviour Research and Therapy
JF - Behaviour Research and Therapy
IS - 3
ER -
