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Overcoming depression

A cognitive-behavioral therapy program

Product: Book

Trim size in cm: 14x22

Pages: 259

ISBN: 978-88-590-1610-6

Publication date: 01/05/2018


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Depression affects more than 10% of the population over the course of a lifetime.  It has negative repercussions on the emotional, cognitive and somatic level of those who suffer from it, so much so that it has been estimated that by 2020, it will be the second cause of disability.

Overcoming depression is difficult, but possible, often without the help of medication.  At present, the psychological treatment of choice for depressive disorders, according to international guidelines, is cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy, which helps to modify the negative behavior and the modes of dysfunctional thinking that trigger and maintain it.  With simple but precise language and through numerous examples and practical exercises, this self-help manual accompanies the reader step-by-step on a therapeutic path that will help him/her overcome depression problems, with consequent improvements in quality of life.


Introduction
Before starting

PART I – GETTING TO KNOW DEPRESSION
1. Information on depression
2. Evaluating depression and preparing to deal with it
3. How depression is born and maintained according to cognitive behavioral therapy

PART II – BEHAVIORAL STRATEGIES


  1. Depression and behavior
    5. Depression and behavior: the structured method of solving problems and achieving goals


PART III – STRATEGIES AND BEHAVIOURS
6. Depression and thoughts: identifying the link between events, thoughts and emotions and building the ABCs

  1. Cognitive restructuring: questioning counterproductive thoughts and formulating more functional alternative thoughts

  2. Dysfunctional pretenses and basic beliefs
    9. The perverse mechanism of rumination
    10. Overcoming feelings of excessive guilt


PARTE IV – INTERPERSONAL AND SOCIAL STRATEGIES
11. Depression and communication skills
12. Depression and social support
13. Evaluating progress and preventing relapses

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