Overcoming Depression: A self- help guide using Cognitive Behavioural Techniques

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Overcoming Depression is a comprehensive program which assists clinicians in delivering effective CBT for depression. The program includes two books:

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While it's helpful to hear perspectives on depression from a spectrum of people, it's often best to choose a book penned by a mental health expert. A mental health expert is someone who has been medically trained, has personal experience working with many types of people with depression, and has likely put in thousands of hours into the topic. According to author Robert Duff, his book Hardcore Self Help: Depression affects both the mind and the body and is much more than just feeling sad for a while. It squashes motivation for even the simplest of tasks and creates feelings of hopelessness and despair. Like a barometer, depression tells us that something is wrong, but it doesn’t tell us what is wrong. Complicating the condition is the fact that it is experienced differently by each person, so an individualized treatment plan is essential for recovery. Personal journey … Kay Redfield Jamison. Photograph: Robert Sherbow/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images Maybe you find it difficult to identify your experience, or you have been diagnosed but are looking for new coping skills. Or, maybe you want to see things from another perspective, or read about others’ experiences so you can better support a loved one.

Also, reading books about depression—even if you’ve personally never felt depressed—can help you empathize with others who do experience depression. This can strengthen your relationships with those you care about and help you understand what depression is from a more nuanced point of view. While most self-improvement books on our list take on the challenge of providing helpful tools for overcoming depression, Andrew Solomon’s The Noonday Demon is a little different. As its subtitle implies, this book studies depression from multiple perspectives: the intellectual, the historical, and the personal. Solomon, who suffers from depression and was awarded the National Book Award for The Noonday Demon, is at once encouraging and heartbreakingly honest as he dives into the roots of depression and the ways in which it is beaten. Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain John J. Ratey, MD The book begins with a "CBT Starter Guide," which is an excellent resource for anyone wanting to learn more about this approach. From there, Gillihan works through a variety of behavior strategies, such as goal setting, mindfulness, avoiding procrastination, and managing anger. Each chapter ends with a helpful summary, as well as homework assignments to reinforce what you've learned. We love the helpful diagrams, charts, and activities throughout the book. According to author Robert Duff, his book Hardcore Self Help: F**k Depression is the “no psychobabble self-help book for people that don’t usually like self-help books.” Although Duff is a psychologist by trade and training, his books (including one about anxiety) are no nonsense, and easy to read and understand. Readers will learn why they feel as if they have no energy and why they have the feelings they do. They’ll also gain Duff’s knowledge about realistic steps that can be taken to solve many of the day-to-day issues faced by those battling depression. How to Be Happy (Or at Least Less Sad): A Creative Workbook Lee Crutchley An encyclopedia of depression that is astounding in its breadth and intimacy. It includes harrowing moments when Solomon, struggling with his own depression, tries to contract HIV from a homeless person as he believes he is only worthy of death.

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Although written for the client, the exercises in the workbook are intended to be carried out under the supervision of a mental health professional. The authors suggest that the most effective implementation of these exercises requires an understanding of the principles underlying the different procedures, and that mental health professionals should be familiar with both the Overcoming Depression – A Cognitive Therapy Approach: Therapist Guide as well as this workbook. Lim, G. Y., Tam, W. W., Lu, Y., Ho, C. S., Zhang, M. W., & Ho, R. C. (2018). Prevalence of depression in the community from 30 countries between 1994 and 2014. Scientific Reports, 8, 1-10. DOI:10.1038/s41598-018-21243-x. Cuijpers, P., Noma, H., Karyotaki, E., Cipriani, A., & Furukawa, T. A. (2019). Effectiveness and acceptability of cognitive behavior therapy delivery formats in adults with depression: a network meta-analysis. JAMA Psychiatry, 76, 700-707. DOI:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2019.0268. Author Carrie Wrigley, a counselor with over 30 years of experience, does an amazing job combining assessments, self-help tools, and invaluable information in this guide to preventing and overcoming depression. The book combines a variety of approaches, including CBT, positive psychology, behavior modification, and interpersonal therapy, for a well-rounded, versatile resource. In the autumn of 2015, I felt numb, worthless, and had thoughts of ending my life. I was 25 years old and I was experiencing my first bout of depression, an illness that has ebbed and flowed ever since. At first, I was hesitant to take medication and opted for a course of cognitive behavioural therapy. I worried that medication would dampen my brain, dull my experience of the world and my ability to describe it. Only later did I find that the right drug is a key tool for my career. When I’m stable I can write. When I’m depressed, I can barely walk or talk.

Best for those in helping professions: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed Four health experts teamed up to write this bestselling book about why we tend to become more depressed when we attempt to just “snap out of it.” Instead, these experts suggest a series of unique cognitive therapy exercises rooted in Eastern meditative traditions. Rather than simply thinking happy thoughts, these exercises promote the building of positive mental habits that lead to a renewed sense of well-being. The book also comes with a supplementary CD narrated by one of the authors. The Mindful Way Workbook: An 8-Week Program to Free Yourself from Depression and Emotional Distress John Teasdale, J. Mark Williams, Zindel Segal, and John Kabat-Zinn If you’re looking to delve into reading about depression but aren’t sure where to start, we’ve got you covered. There are tons of resources available, but to save you some time we have compiled some of our recent favorites. Authored by leading psychologists including David Barlow, Michelle Craske and Edna Foa, Treatments That Work® is a series of manuals and workbooks based on the principles of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). Each pair of books – therapist guide and client workbook –contains step-by-step procedures for delivering evidence-based psychological interventions and will help you to provide the best possible care for your clients.

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Overcoming Depression – A Cognitive Therapy Approach: Therapist Guideis the companion to this workbook. It details the step-by-step cognitive therapy treatment for depression. One in four women start their day with medication. According to authors Kelly Brogan, MD and Kristin Loberg, this dependence upon drugs has become the panacea for panic and grief, to depression and irritability, and everything in between. But Brogan and Loberg insist that the key to a woman’s happiness cannot be found in a drugstore. Rather, they recommend a more holistic approach based on years of experience working in a clinical practice and publishing her own medical findings. A Mind of Your Own lays out this unique approach in a step-by-step 30-day action plan. Mind Over Mood: Change How You Feel by Changing the Way You Think Dennis Greenberger and Christine PadeskyThe Mindful Way Workbook can be read with or without also reading The Mindful Way Through Depression by the same authors. The exercises in this workbook are all based on mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, a strategy for overcoming depression that has been proven effective in a number of clinical trials worldwide. The carefully constructed workbook is meant to be completed in eight weeks, and promises to help overcome depression, anxiety, and stress. The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression Andrew Solomon Clients use the Workbooks which contain elements of psychoeducation, skills development, self-assessment quizzes, homework exercises, and record forms. Written by a practicing psychotherapist, Undoing Depression by Richard O’Connor is straightforward, practical, and easy to follow and understand. As those with depression know well, it’s easy to become overwhelmed by the things in life over which we have no control. But O’Connor suggests battling depression by focusing on the things over which we do have control: our habits. Throughout the book, O’Connor offers tips and techniques for readers to learn to change their habits to replace depression with positive mental health. The Upward Spiral: Using Neuroscience to Reverse the Course of Depression, One Small Change at a Time Alex Korb, Ph.D. Depression is the most common mental health population in the general population (Kessler et al., 1994). It is estimated that around 11% of individuals will experience depression at some point in their lifetime (Lim et al., 2018). Symptoms include feelings of worthlessness, hopelessness, or guilt; loss of interest in activities; reduced energy; changes in sleep or appetite; and thoughts of suicide or death.