Open AccessOpen Trial of Brief Behavioral Activation Psychotherapy for Depression in an Integrated Veterans Affairs Primary Care Setting
Author(s) -
Daniel F. Grös,
W. Blake Haren
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
primary care companion to cns disorders/the primary care companion for cns disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.328
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 2155-7772
pISSN - 2155-7780
DOI - 10.4088/pcc.11m01136
Subject(s) - veterans affairs , primary care , depression (economics) , psychotherapist , behavioral activation , psychology , brief psychotherapy , psychiatry , medicine , family medicine , cognition , economics , macroeconomics
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is highly prevalent and impairing and highly likely to present in primary care settings. Recent efforts by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) have sought to integrate mental health services into primary care settings, leading to new specialty pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy treatment options for primary care patients. However, little is known about the effectiveness of these new services in primary care patients with MDD. The present study investigated the effectiveness of a brief, easy-to-administer, evidence-based psychotherapy behavioral activation in an integrated mental health/primary care setting in a southeastern VA medical center during the first year of the program.