Building Recovery by Improving Goals, Habits, and Thoughts (BRIGHT)

Résumé du livre

The purpose of this manual is to assist practitioners and programs in implementing Building Recovery by Improving Goals, Habits, and Thoughts (BRIGHT). BRIGHT is a manualized group cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) program for depression in individuals with co-occurring alcohol and drug use problems. The treatment program was developed and evaluated in residential substance abuse treatment programs in Los Angeles County. For more information about BRIGHT's effectiveness, please see Watkins et al. (in press). We designed BRIGHT so that non-mental health practitioners and practitioners with less formal training than professional mental health counselors could deliver the program with acceptable fidelity, thus providing evidence-based depression treatment to individuals who often do not receive it. Thus, while BRIGHT can be delivered by mental health practitioners with experience in CBT, we also believe that BRIGHT can be implemented by a broad range of practitioners and settings to address the needs of individuals with both depression and alcohol and drug use problems. This manual has three parts: a group leader's introduction, a session-by-session group leader manual, and a group member's workbook. This work was sponsored by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (Grant number R01 AA014699). The research was conducted within RAND Health, a division of the RAND Corporation. A profile of RAND Health, abstracts of its publications, and ordering information can be found at ww.rand.org/health.