ArticleJournal of affective disorders2017
"Engage" therapy: Prediction of change of late-life major depression.
Article in Journal of affective disorders, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.
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- Resting State Functional Connectivity and Outcomes of Psychotherapies for Late-Life Depression.The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry · 2020Trial
- Engagement in Socially and Interpersonally Rewarding Activities as a Predictor of Outcome in "Engage" Behavioral Activation Therapy for Late-Life Depression.The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry · 2019Trial
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- Protocol for a randomized controlled trial of brief behavioral activation among older adult cancer survivors.Journal of geriatric oncology · 2024Article
- Behavioral activation for depression in groups embedded in psychosomatic rehabilitation inpatient treatment: a quasi-randomized controlled study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- The neurobiology of apathy in depression and neurocognitive impairment in older adults: a review of epidemiological, clinical, neuropsychological and biological research.Translational psychiatry · 2022Review
- Can Cognitive Control and Attentional Biases Explain More of the Variance in Depressive Symptoms Than Behavioral Processes? A Path Analysis Approach.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Integrated Community Collaborative Care for Seniors with Depression/Anxiety and any Physical Illness.Canadian geriatrics journal : CGJ · 2021Article
- Late Life Depression: The Essentials and the Essential Distinctions.Focus (American Psychiatric Publishing) · 2021Article
- The Role of Exercise in Management of Mental Health Disorders: An Integrative Review.Annual review of medicine · 2021Review
- Community delivery of brief therapy for depressed older adults impacted by Hurricane Sandy.Translational behavioral medicine · 2020Article
- The Age Limit Does Not Exist: A Pilot Usability Assessment of a SMS-Messaging and Smartwatch-Based Intervention for Older Adults with Depression.AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium · 2020Article
- Mechanisms and treatment of late-life depression.Translational psychiatry · 2019Review
- Empirically supported interventions in psychology: contributions of Research Domain Criteria.Psicologia, reflexao e critica : revista semestral do Departamento de Psicologia da UFRGS · 2019Review
- Reward learning impairment and avoidance and rumination responses at the end of Engage therapy of late-life depression.International journal of geriatric psychiatry · 2018Article
- Behavioral Activation Therapy for Depression Led by Health Personnel in Older People: A Scoping Review.Gerontology & geriatric medicineArticle
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Abstract
objectiveEngage grew out of the need for streamlined psychotherapies that can be accurately used by community therapists in late-life depression. Engage was based on the view that dysfunction of reward networks is the principal mechanism mediating depressive symptoms. Accordingly, Engage uses "reward exposure" (exposure to meaningful activities) and assumes that repeated activation of reward networks will normalize these systems. This study examined whether change in a behavioral activation scale, an index of reward system function, predicts change in depressive symptomatology.
methodsThe participants (N = 48) were older adults with major depression treated with 9 weekly sessions of Engage and assessed 27 weeks after treatment. Depression was assessed with the 24-item Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAM-D) and behavioral activation with the four subscales of Behavioral Activation for Depression Scale (activation, avoidance/rumination, work impairment, social impairment) at baseline, 6 weeks (mid-treatment), 9 weeks (end of treatment), and 36 weeks.
resultsChange only in the Activation subscale during successive periods of assessment predicted depression severity (HAM-D) at the end of each period (F LIMITATIONS: No comparison group. Partial overlap of Activation Subscale with HAM-D, lack of detailed neurocognitive assessment and social support.
conclusionChange in behavioral activation predicts improvement of depressive symptoms and signs in depressed older adults treated with Engage.
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