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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.
Multi-Level Systems in Depression
Multi-Level Systems in Depression
Over thirty years ago Akiskal and McKinney (1973, 1975) referred to depression as a final common pathway. In their classic papers they pointed out that not only does depression vary in form and experience but a variety of different, interacting factors, for different people (such as genes, early and current relationships, life events, thinking and coping styles, and drugs) can operate in different patterns for different people. As we saw in the last chapter, this type of approach underpins the biopsychosocial approach to depression. As counsellors and psychotherapists, however, it is the way we understand the ‘inner experience’ of depression (as more than just focused on ‘symptoms’) which enables us to develop our working alliance, build formulations and ...
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