Online Positive Emotion Skills Intervention for Symptoms of Depression

"Our intervention teaches 8 skills that research suggests lead to increased positive emotions, beginning with basic skills (recognizing and savoring positive events), and progressing to more complex ones such as goal- setting and acts of kindness. Established skills such as reappraising negative thoughts are also taught, in the context of cultivating positive emotions and coping with stress.~The skills are taught over 5 weeks, with one or more new skills introduced each week. A week consists of 1-2 days of didactic material and 5-6 days of real-life skills practice and reporting.~For a full description, see A positive affect intervention for people experiencing health-related stress: development and non-randomized pilot test (Moskowitz et al., 2012)."