Sessions three and four continue to support participants' application of problem solving, behavioural activation, and relaxation exercises, and introduces strategies to strengthen social support networks.
The sessions focussed on: psycho-education about PND, goal setting and problem solving, behavioural interventions (e.g. encouraging pleasant activities, relaxation) basic cognitive techniques (e.g. link between thoughts and feelings, challenging unhelpful beliefs and thoughts).
Developed by WHO, PM+ is a new, brief, psychological intervention program based on established problem-solving and behavioural therapy techniques [ 9].
In addition GET.ON-Mood Enhancer-WL aims to prepare patients for subsequent inpatient therapy by providing relevant information (psycho education) and using effective and well known elements that are mainly based on behavioural therapy and problem-solving therapy.
Main treatment components were psychoeducation, relaxation training, cognitive therapy, problem solving, and behavioural activation.
Action-focused problem-solving incorporates two complementary and well-established behavioural approaches: problem-solving and implementation intentions.
problem-solving techniques.
Grounded predominantly in cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT), and increasingly incorporating other therapeutic approaches [ 3, 4], online psychological interventions help people with symptom management by teaching skills to regain control over and change problematic thoughts and behaviours (including cognitive restructuring, problem solving techniques and behavioural activation [ 5]).
Key is solving behavioural problems through technology.
20 Carers in the intervention group attended six sessions with a psychologist who provided psychoeducation on disease-specific symptoms, strategies for problem solving and cognitive behavioural therapy to increase coping with the caring role.
Training, delivered over two days by a professor of liaison psychiatry and professor of mental health, included skills training (patient-centred interviewing and problem solving), psychological interventions, behavioural activation, cognitive restructuring, medication management and liaison skills.
