Behavioural Activation

Understanding Behavioural Activation

Test your knowledge on Behavioural Activation (BA) with this informative quiz! Designed for mental health professionals and students, it covers essential concepts, protocols, and techniques associated with BA in depression treatment.

Challenge yourself with multiple-choice questions including topics like:

Core principles of BA
The Step 2 BA protocol
Goal setting and planning for patients

14 Questions4 MinutesCreated by EngagingMind2023

The Step 2 BA protocol focuses on ____________ as the key maintaining factor in depression.

Behavioural avoidance

Deactivation

Automatic negative thoughts

Negative reinforcement

‘A child doesn’t have to clean the table after their meal if they eat their vegetables’ is an example of...

Negative reinforcement

Positive reinforcement

Rumination is maintained by __________:

Negative reinforcement

Positive reinforcement

Negative life events

Cognitive restructuring

Behavioural activation focuses on:

Reducing avoidance

Promoting active problem solving

Active engagement

All of the above

Which of the following is a core principle of BA?

The inside-out approach

Schedule activities that follow a plan not a mood

Start activities when you feel better

They are all core principles of BA

It’s important to plan a balance of pleasurable, necessary and _________ activities:

Routine

Important

Social

Self-care

If a patient presenting with low mood already has a packed schedule of activities then it's like that they do not need a BA intervention.

True

False

What should you do after identifying activities with the patient?

Ask the patient to rate the difficulty of the activities

Ask the patient to categorise the activities as routine, pleasurable or necessary

Ask the patient to set SMART goals based on the identified activities

Ask the patient to schedule pleasurable activities first

How can you help support a patient with goal setting and planning?

Ask the patient to try scheduling more difficult tasks in the morning

Ask the patient to schedule more pleasurable activities to increase their mood

Ask the patient if they could break up broader goals into smaller, more manageable ones

All of the above

Why should the patient include their mood after each activity in their planner?

To reinforce the patient’s learning of the link between behaviour and mood

To inform the PWP and help you plan the following week

The patient should not include mood as it could discourage them from continuing

To reinforce the patient’s learning of the link between mood and negative thoughts

If a patient reports that they are disheartened that they completed a pleasurable activity but it did not improve their mood immediately, what could you do next?

Ask them what they think it might have been like if they had not completed the activity

Schedule more pleasurable activities into the following week

Suggest that there may be more complex difficulties and they might benefit from stepping up to HI

Ask them to remove that activity straight away and explore what else they could try

Why should you not explicitly check the patient’s understanding of the rationale behind BA?

You should always explicitly check the patient’s understanding

The patient might feel that you are being condescending and disengage

The PWP has limited time and has already explained the rationale

It is possible to gauge their understanding implicitly from their responses

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