Behavioral Activation of a Breast Cancer Patient With Coexistent Major Depression and Generalized Anxiety Disorder Export

@article{citeulike:4431739, abstract = {Recently developed behavioral activation interventions have shown promise in effectively treating depression through increasing value-based activity levels that elicit response-contingent reinforcement. This case study highlights the implementation of behavioral activation to a breast cancer patient with major depression and generalized anxiety disorder, applied within the context of a medical center oncology clinic. Following an eight-session behavioral activation protocol, the patient demonstrated notable decreases in self-reported depressive and anxious symptoms and an overall increase in quality of life and medical functioning. These treatment gains were maintained through 6-month follow-up. Consistent with an accumulating literature, these data support behavioral activation as an effective and parsimonious intervention for individuals with depression and concurrent medical problems such as breast cancer. 10.1177/1534650108327474}, author = {Armento, Maria E. and Hopko, Derek R.}, citeulike-article-id = {4431739}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1534650108327474}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://ccs.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/8/1/25}, day = {1}, doi = {10.1177/1534650108327474}, journal = {Clinical Case Studies}, keywords = {anxiety, ba, cancer, case-reports, depression, therapy}, month = {February}, number = {1}, pages = {25--37}, posted-at = {2009-04-29 01:41:41}, priority = {3}, title = {Behavioral Activation of a Breast Cancer Patient With Coexistent Major Depression and Generalized Anxiety Disorder}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1534650108327474}, volume = {8}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:4431739 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4431739 N2 - Recently developed behavioral activation interventions have shown promise in effectively treating depression through increasing value-based activity levels that elicit response-contingent reinforcement. This case study highlights the implementation of behavioral activation to a breast cancer patient with major depression and generalized anxiety disorder, applied within the context of a medical center oncology clinic. Following an eight-session behavioral activation protocol, the patient demonstrated notable decreases in self-reported depressive and anxious symptoms and an overall increase in quality of life and medical functioning. These treatment gains were maintained through 6-month follow-up. Consistent with an accumulating literature, these data support behavioral activation as an effective and parsimonious intervention for individuals with depression and concurrent medical problems such as breast cancer. 10.1177/1534650108327474 IS - 1 JF - Clinical Case Studies EP - 37 TI - Behavioral Activation of a Breast Cancer Patient With Coexistent Major Depression and Generalized Anxiety Disorder VL - 8 SP - 25 KW - anxiety KW - ba KW - cancer KW - case-reports KW - depression KW - therapy AU - Armento, Maria AU - Hopko, Derek PY - 2009/02/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1534650108327474 ER -