BEHAVIOURAL ACTIVATION AND THE DEMEDICALIZATION OF DEPRESSION

Behavioural activation (BA) emerges as the most effective therapy for treating depression. It has shown to be more effective than cognitive therapy, and similarly effective but with more effectiveness than medications used to treat major depression. BA therapy considers depression in contextual terms, trying to help depressed persons to get their lives back. BA represents an alternative view to the deficit model of depression that prevails among clinical settings in terms or brain chemistry or psychological mechanisms.