Implementation and dissemination of low intensity interventions, challenges and solutions

• Integrating low intensity treatments into healthcare, policy and the community
• Disseminating low-intensity interventions through digital tools, such as smartphone apps and self-help websites
• Self-help vs practitioner-supported interventions
• Introducing low intensity interventions to low- and middle- income countries
• Role of low-intensity interventions in a crisis context, such as a global pandemic

Recommended reading:

Ly, K. H., Topooco, N., Cederlund, H., Wallin, A., Bergström, J., Molander, O., ... & Andersson, G. (2015). Smartphone-supported versus full behavioural activation for depression: a randomised controlled trial. PloS one, 10(5), e0126559.

Bockting, C. L. H., Williams, A. D., Carswell, K., & Grech, A. E. (2016). The potential of low-intensity and online interventions for depression in low-and middle-income countries. Global Mental Health, 3.

Nasrin, F., Rimes, K. A., Reinecke, A., Rinck, M., & Barnhofer, T. (2017). Effects of brief behavioural activation on approach and avoidance tendencies in acute depression: Preliminary findings.

Magidson, J. F., Andersen, L. S., Satinsky, E. N., Myers, B., Kagee, A., Anvari, M., & Joska, J. A. (2020). “Too much boredom isn’t a good thing”: Adapting behavioral activation for substance use in a resource-limited South African HIV care setting. Psychotherapy, 57(1), 107.