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The San Francisco mood survey project: Preliminary work toward the prevention of depression
Author(s) -
Muñoz Ricardo F.,
Glish Michael,
Soo-Hoo Terry,
Robertson Jerie
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
american journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.113
H-Index - 112
eISSN - 1573-2770
pISSN - 0091-0562
DOI - 10.1007/bf00896498
Subject(s) - mood , health psychology , psychology , depression (economics) , adaptation (eye) , clinical psychology , public health , cognition , depressed mood , psychiatry , medicine , nursing , neuroscience , economics , macroeconomics
A framework for the adaptation of social learning, cognitive-behavioral treatment approaches to prevention of depression is described. In addition, an illustrative example is given of a survey study that measured behavior and mood before and after a 2-week television miniseries based on these approaches; 3 of 14 behaviors showed a significant change. Mood level improved significantly more for an originally symptomatic group that watched the segments when compared to a similarly symptomatic group which did not watch them. Implications of the study for future work are delineated.