Resources
All of our trainings and resources are completely free to use. Please note that the manuals are intended to be used as self-help guides. All of our manuals and measures are completely free for download. We only ask that before using the programs, you enter some brief, non-identifiable information about yourself by completing the manual use survey.
Videos and Presentations
Presentations by our Founding Director, Associate Directors, and other affiliated persons on topics pertaining to behavioral health, Latino mental health, depression prevention, and Internet interventions. Watch the videos »
CBT Online Trainings, Resources and Manuals
Our team members and affiliates are committed to developing resources to help both lay people and professionals manage a wide range of conditions. Come back here any time for updates and new materials.
Stop Smoking Guide
English, Spanish
The guide is available in English and Spanish.
Healthy Management of Reality
English, Spanish
The Healthy Management of Reality was developed by Ricardo Muñoz in 1996. It serves as the theoretical basis for the Cognitive-Behavioral treatment manuals on this site.
Prevention of Depression Manuals
English, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Korean
This course was used in the first randomized control trial designed to test whether major depressive episodes could be prevented (Muñoz & Ying, 1993).
Group Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy of Major Depression
English, Spanish, Persian
The particular perspective to CBT described here is a "reality management approach," developed by the senior author's experiences at San Francisco General Hospital since 1977.
The Mothers and Babies Course: A Reality Management Course
English, Spanish, Greek
The goal of this manual is to provide high-risk women with an intervention aimed at preventing the onset of major depressive episodes during the pre and postpartum period.
The Mothers and Babies Course: Relaxation Methods for Managing Stress
English, Spanish
The Relaxation Manual of the Mothers and Babies Course is given to the participants at the beginning of the Mothers and Babies Course, along with the main Participant Manual.
BRIGHT Courses
English course, Spanish workshop
This series of three online training courses teach addiction counselors how to implement a group Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for Depression in people who are in treatment for Substance use Disorder.
BRIGHT CBT Depression Group Manuals
Online training in English and Spanish
The first version of this treatment program was developed as a set of three manuals for a research study to see whether the program could be helpful to people who were suffering from depression.
BRIGHT Manuals for CBT for Depression with Substance Abusers
English, Spanish
This manual is intended to help implement Building Recovery by Improving Goals, Habits, and Thoughts (BRIGHT), a group CBT program for individuals with depression and co-occurring alcohol and drug use problems.
CBT for Depression: Adaptation for Puerto Rican Adolescents
English, Spanish
Includes a participant's manual, an individual format therapist manual and a group format therapist manual.
Group Therapy Manual for the African American Women's Group
English
A 1997 revision of the Group Therapy Manual for Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Depression by Ricardo F. Muñoz and Jeanne Miranda, created for the African American Women's Group at the Cognitive-Behavioral Depression Clinic, San Francisco General Hospital.
The Depression Treatment Manual
Chinese
Chinese translation of the Depression Treatment Manual developed at San Francisco General Hospital.
Psychological First Aid Manual, Appendix E
English, Tagalog
From the National Child Traumatic Stress Network. The full manual is available in other languages on the NCTSN website.
Books and Measures
Vertigo and Dizziness
English, Spanish
This book on vertigo and dizziness, written by Dr. Lucy Yardley, is available for free in English and Spanish.
Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D)
English, Spanish
A 20-item self-report scale that yields a continuous measure of depressive symptoms not keyed to a diagnostic system, used extensively in epidemiological studies of depression in Spanish and English. Radloff, L. S. (1977). Applied Psychological Measurement, 1, 385-401.
Mood Screener (MDE Screener)
English, Spanish
Asks whether respondents have experienced enough symptoms of major depression to meet DSM criteria for a major depressive episode (MDE), currently or in their lifetime. Responses sort participants into three groups: no lifetime MDE history, current MDE, or past MDE.