Is written by an expert team of clinical psychologists and provides step-by-step guidelines on proven therapeutic exercises and ways to implement po
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'...this text is an extremely comprehensive guide for someone who wants to learn more about depression itself...' . ( British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies, July 2009).
Table of Contents
Foreword. Introduction.
Part I: Discovering Depression and Designing Defences.
Chapter 1: Understanding and Overcoming Depression.
Chapter 2: Detecting Depression.
Chapter 3: Breaching Barriers to Change.
Chapter 4: Finding Help for Depression.
Part II: Seeing Things More Clearly: Cognitive Therapy.
Chapter 5: Uncovering Underlying Thought Processes.
Chapter 6: Dispersing the Dark Clouds of Depressive Thinking.
Chapter 7: Discovering the Distorting Perceptions Behind Depression.
Chapter 8: Amending Your Memory.
Part III: Actively Combating Depression: Behaviour Therapy.
Chapter 9: Don’t take it Lying Down!
Chapter 10: Exercising to Lift Depression.
Chapter 11: Rediscovering Healthy Pleasures.
Chapter 12: Handling Life’s Headaches.
Part IV: Adjusting to Changing Relationships.
Chapter 13: Working through Loss, Grief, and Mourning.
Chapter 14: Revitalising Relationships.
Part V: Full Bodied Assault: Biological Therapies to Fight the Physical Foe.
Chapter 15: Maximising Medication Benefits.
Chapter 16: Help and Hope: Exploring Complementary Therapies for Depression.
Part VI: Life After Depression.
Chapter 17: Reducing the Risk of Relapse.
Chapter 18: Overcoming Depression with Mindfulness.
Chapter 19: Heading for Happiness Through Positive Psychology.
Part VII: The Part of Tens.
Chapter 20: Ten Ways of Improving Your Mood.
Chapter 21: Ten Ways of Helping a Child with Depression.
Chapter 22: Ten Ways of Helping a Friend or Partner with Depression.
Appendix: Resources for You.
Index.
