Behavioral Activation Therapy Works for Men

Behavioral Activation Therapy (BAT) and Accept and Commit Therapy (ACT) will make sense to you as helpful to men and similar to each other because they are both about taking action, not just expressing emotions.

We covered in prior lessons how it is that “women are about people” and “men are about things.”

We covered how it is that in psychotherapy, women heal and get benefits out of emotional expression. In contrast, men get benefits out of taking actions that lead to successfully getting to goals.

These two styles of therapy are almost definitive of these male instinctual tendencies.