Table 1 The contents of the behavioral activation therapy program
Sessions | Title | Contents |
|---|---|---|
0 | Introduction | Introduction on changes that occur in perinatal periods that affect your activities |
1 | Understanding the depression cycle | Learning about relationship between your mood and behaviours, and exercise to fill out the mood diary. |
2 | Self-monitoring, self-care | Learning about self-monitoring skills. |
3 | Identifying the patterns to get stuck in you depressive mood | Understanding the Triggers-Reactions-Avoidance Patterns (TRAPs) model. |
4 | Case study | Case studies on how a trigger event induces feeling (reaction), causing avoidance pattern. Writing about your own case using a TRAP model. |
5 | Altenative coping stratigies | Looking for althernative activities as a mother |
6 | Case Study | Case studies on using alternative coping. Analyse your own case to come up with althernative behaviours. |
7 | Support and communication | Understanding your need for support and how communication needs to be changed during perinatal period. |
8 | Communication strategies | Learning communication strategies to ask for help and support in a comfortable way. |
9 | Being a “good-enough” mom | Identifying your own “mummy goals” and using althernative coping strategies to meet them. |
10 | TRAPs aroug being a good enough mom | Looking at your TRAP case and how to turn into altenative coping behaviours. |
11 | Staying well | Looking back over the course and identify the strategies that were effective and helpful. |
12 | Planning ahead | Identify your warning signals and plan your strategies to feel better. |