Table 1.

The contents of the behavioral activation therapy program

Sessions	Title	Contents
0	Introduction	Introduction on changes that occur in perinatal periods that affect your activities
1	Understanding the depression cycle	Learning about relationship between your mood and behaviours, and exercise to fill out the mood diary.
2	Self-monitoring, self-care	Learning about self-monitoring skills.
3	Identifying the patterns to get stuck in you depressive mood	Understanding the Triggers-Reactions-Avoidance Patterns (TRAPs) model.
4	Case study	Case studies on how a trigger event induces feeling (reaction), causing avoidance pattern. Writing about your own case using a TRAP model.
5	Altenative coping stratigies	Looking for althernative activities as a mother
6	Case Study	Case studies on using alternative coping. Analyse your own case to come up with althernative behaviours.
7	Support and communication	Understanding your need for support and how communication needs to be changed during perinatal period.
8	Communication strategies	Learning communication strategies to ask for help and support in a comfortable way.
9	Being a “good-enough” mom	Identifying your own “mummy goals” and using althernative coping strategies to meet them.
10	TRAPs aroug being a good enough mom	Looking at your TRAP case and how to turn into altenative coping behaviours.
11	Staying well	Looking back over the course and identify the strategies that were effective and helpful.
12	Planning ahead	Identify your warning signals and plan your strategies to feel better.