Overcoming Depression and Low Mood: A Five Areas Approach

✍ Scribed by Christopher Williams

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 381
• Edition: 3
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Building on the success of previous editions, Overcoming Depression and Low Mood, Third Edition, presents a series of self-help workbooks for use in self-assessing and managing depression and periods of low mood, with support from a health care professional. This book covers all the issues that are known to be problematic in depression in the clear, user-friendly format that is associated with the Overcoming... series. The interactive questions and worksheets are a key feature of the series and they are plentiful and appropriate in this new title. Using the established Five Areas Assessment model of depression, the book provides a clear model of intervention, using the proven cognitive behaviour therapy evidence-based approach. It is empowering and supportive, helping readers make changes to their lives in a planned and achievable way. The workbooks also provide an invaluable resource for counsellors, general practitioners, nursing staff, psychiatrists, social workers, and others working with people suffering from low mood or depression.

✦ Table of Contents

Book title......Page 4
Contents......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
Part 1 Understanding why you feel as you do......Page 14
Starting out … and how to keep going if you feel stuck......Page 16
Understanding why you feel as you do......Page 32
Making changes to do with people and events......Page 62
Practical problem solving......Page 64
Being assertive......Page 90
Building relationships with your family and friends......Page 106
Information for families and friends – how can you offer the best support?......Page 124
Doing things that boost how you feel......Page 150
Using exercise to boost how you feel......Page 186
Helpful things you can do......Page 202
Unhelpful things you do......Page 226
Overcoming anxiety and avoidance......Page 254
Noticing and changing extreme and unhelpful thinking......Page 284
Overcoming sleep problems......Page 312
Alcohol, drugs and you......Page 332
Understanding and using anti-depressant medication......Page 348
Planning for the future......Page 360