Individual Therapy Manual for Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Depression
RAND Corporation (AHRQ-funded) · 2000 · 86 pages · For clinicians treating adult depression individually
Read it at the official source
RAND provides the full manual free and explicitly encourages linking to its product page; re-posting the PDF elsewhere is prohibited, which is why we link the official page. A Spanish edition is equally free.
If the publisher link moves: archived copy
A complete individual CBT protocol for adult depression by Ricardo Muñoz and Jeanne Miranda, developed at the San Francisco General Hospital Depression Clinic and published free by RAND. The sessions are organized around the classic CBT triad for mood: how thoughts shape mood, how activities shape mood, and how people (relationships) shape mood, with session outlines, in-session exercises, and homework throughout.
The same team published a matching Spanish edition, one of very few complete Spanish-language CBT depression manuals available free anywhere. Note the PDFs are scanned images from 2000, so they read fine but are not text-searchable.
Run it with these materials
The behavioral activation and thought log worksheets are modern versions of this manual's core homework; the PHQ-9 covers its session-by-session mood measurement.
This manual is a publication of RAND Corporation (AHRQ-funded). Therapy Resource is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, its publisher. The summary above is our own; always follow the manual itself and your clinical judgment. If you are in crisis, contact 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline or call 911.