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Cognitive Evolutionary Therapy for Depression starts with the administration of a fitness evaluation instrument at intake. The items of this instrument tap into dimensions that are thought to be linked to reproductive success, such as health, attractiveness, safety of, and fit with the environment, resourcefulness, upward social mobility, reciprocal altruism, mate value, offspring quality, extended family. The patient’s answers to this instrument guide the subsequent evolutionary interventions, which can be behavioral activation or cognitive restructuring targeting the patient’s fitness deficiencies.
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Giosan, C., Wyka, K., Mogoaşe, C., Cobeanu, O., & Szentagotai, A. (2018). The Evolutionary Fitness scale: A measure of the independent criterion of fitness. EvoS Journal: The Journal of the Evolutionary Studies Consortium, 7(1), 181–205.
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Giosan, C. (2020). The Evolutionary Fitness Scale. In: Cognitive Evolutionary Therapy for Depression. SpringerBriefs in Psychology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38874-4_8
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