The Say ‘Yes’ to Life (SYTL) Program: A Positive Psychology Group Intervention for Depression

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Publication information Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy, 45 (2): 109-118Publisher Springer Item record/more information http://hdl.handle.net/10197/7215 Publisher's statementThe final publication is available at www.springerlink.com.Publisher's version (DOI) http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10879-014-9269-9Say Yes to Life

The Application of Positive Psychotherapy in Mental Health Care: A Systematic Review

“…The study characteristics, treatment protocol, and description of findings are outlined in Table . The following results compare the eight PPT adaptations (Asgharipoor et al., ; Carr & Finnegan, ; Cohn et al., ; Huffman et al., ; Lambert D'raven et al., ; Meyer, Johnson, Parks, Iwanski, & Penn, ; Roepke et al., ; Schrank et al., ) to the original model (Seligman et al., ).…”

“…Papers often used a different format than the original model, which delivered individual therapy (Seligman et al., ). Instead, the model was modified for use as group therapy in community mental health settings for people with a diagnosis of depression (Asgharipoor et al., ; Carr & Finnegan, ) or psychosis (Brownell et al., ; Riches et al., ; Schrank et al., ). Components of the model were delivered as a smartphone application (app) for those with depressive symptoms (Roepke et al., ).…”

“…Of the studies applying the PPT model (Asgharipoor et al., ; Brownell et al., ; Carr & Finnegan, ; Meyer et al., ; Roepke et al., ) few provided a rationale for modifying the PPT model (Carr & Finnegan, ; Meyer et al., ; Schrank et al., ). Those that made amendments did so to make the intervention suitable for psychosis (Brownell et al., ; Schrank et al., ) and schizophrenia (Meyer et al., ) or incorporate it with group cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT; Carr & Finnegan, ). Adaptations were guided either by a literature review (Carr & Finnegan, ; Meyer et al., ) or by a review supplemented by qualitative interviews and expert consultation (Riches et al., ).…”

“…Those that made amendments did so to make the intervention suitable for psychosis (Brownell et al., ; Schrank et al., ) and schizophrenia (Meyer et al., ) or incorporate it with group cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT; Carr & Finnegan, ). Adaptations were guided either by a literature review (Carr & Finnegan, ; Meyer et al., ) or by a review supplemented by qualitative interviews and expert consultation (Riches et al., ).…”

“…) or through an undefined optimism exercise (Lambert D'raven et al., ). Occasionally, studies tried to promote positive feelings about things that have happened in the past, through the use of positive writing tasks (Lambert D'raven et al., ) or considering what they have learned from grieving following loss (Carr & Finnegan, ).…”