LAY SUMMARY

Behavioral activation is a short and efficient intervention to treat patients with depression. It involves systematic planning for ’’anti-depressant’’ activities. Motivating patients to do activities is essential. Imagery seems a very good way to motivate participants. Yet many depressed individuals find it difficult to imagine movements. Moreover, it seems that the ability to vividly imagine is a condition for the improvement from imagery interventions.

Our solution was to build an add-on intervention that is fun and use dynamic and enhanced imagery of activities and positive affect. After planning the activities, the patients follow an augmented dynamic imagery intervention which is different for the static imagery currently used in practice. First, patients are helped to boost their motor imagery by a fun and pleasurable short kinect game. During this game we help them to enjoy movement simulations that produce desired environmental consequences (remote kinematic) and feelings. By this practice, the simulations of actions gain the same power of actions in producing desired consequences. And it is fun. Then, patients listen an ACTFULNESS exercise in which they focus on the movement of breathing, and use motor simulations to support the imagery of the planned activity. To this end, we developed a dynamic imagery method (describe, simulate and focus routine) to support movement and pleasurable feelings. Then patients build-up motor-loaded new memories of daily and planned activities that they have to remember in the evening. We describe the pilot project, the principles of the intervention and acceptability of treatment.

Follow us on the first workshop on T-RAC procedures at National Conference of School Psychologists on 25-26 November 2022 at 17.30. Part of the T-RAC Team will present the project, preliminary results and the procedure of Xbox Kinect for augmenting motor imagery. You can try the protocol of Actfulness and Dynamic Imagery of Activities. We discuss how to adapt the protocol  for increasing the accessibility of the behavioural activation treatment for children and adolescents.

Follow us on the first workshop on T-RAC procedures at National Conference of School Psychologists on 25-26 November 2022 at 17.30. Part of the T-RAC Team will present the project, preliminary results and the procedure of Xbox Kinect for augmenting motor imagery. You can try the protocol of Actfulness and Dynamic Imagery of Activities. We discuss how to adapt the protocol  for increasing the accessibility of the behavioural activation treatment for children and adolescents.

Follow us on the first workshop on T-RAC procedures at National Conference of School Psychologists on 25-26 November 2022 at 17.30. Part of the T-RAC Team will present the project, preliminary results and the procedure of Xbox Kinect for augmenting motor imagery. You can try the protocol of Actfulness and Dynamic Imagery of Activities. We discuss how to adapt the protocol  for increasing the accessibility of the behavioural activation treatment for children and adolescents.

Follow us on the first workshop on T-RAC procedures at National Conference of School Psychologists on 25-26 November 2022 at 17.30. Part of the T-RAC Team will present the project, preliminary results and the procedure of Xbox Kinect for augmenting motor imagery. You can try the protocol of Actfulness and Dynamic Imagery of Activities. We discuss how to adapt the protocol  for increasing the accessibility of the behavioural activation treatment for children and adolescents.