“…Although multiple psychological interventions have been developed for treating depression among older adults (see Scogin, Welsh, Hanson, Stump, & Coates, 2005 for a review), only recently have researchers begun to develop and test interventions that can be adapted to nursing home settings. Psychosocial interventions appear to be particularly promising (Snowden, Sato, & Roy-Byrne, 2003), and behavioral treatments, in particular, may be well suited for these settings (Meeks & Depp, 2002;Meeks, Looney, Van Haitsma, & Teri, 2008). Behavioral interventions have as one of their primary targets an increase in number and breadth of pleasant activities (Lejuez, Hopko, LePage, Hopko, & McNeil, 2001;Lewinsohn, 1974), and implementation requires tools for systematically assessing pleasant events.…”