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The Third Edition of Counselling and Psychotherapy for Depression is a popular and practical guide to working with people suffering from depression. As well as describing the skills and techniques used by practitioners, the book explores the features and complexities of depressed states including:
General negativity; Sense of failure and abandonment; Feelings of powerlessness, anger, shame, and guilt
The book examines the essential stages of the therapeutic process from conceptualization and formulation through to a wide variety of interventions for different types of difficulty. The Third Edition has been revised and updated and features a new chapter focusing on the role of the therapeutic relationship.
The Brain, Threats and Depression
The Brain, Threats and Depression
Given the symptoms of depression and its physiological profiles it is easy to see depression as a disorder, dysfunction, deficit or illness. However, is it possible that we have evolved brains that under certain circumstances are designed to tone down positive emotions, reduce motivation and give us feelings of depression? If we only think of depression as something gone wrong, then we may miss the fact that actually we all have the potential for some forms of depression because our brains have evolved to generate the psychobiological patterns of low mood in certain circumstances. So research has focused on the hunt to understand how our brains have evolved and what regulates emotions, feelings and moods. We ...
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