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• Title:Coping with depression : a guide to what works for patients, carers, and professionals.
  
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• Author/Creator:Papageorgiou, Costas.
  
• Published/Created:Oxford, England : Oneworld, 2011.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WM171.5 .P213 2011
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Depression, Mental--Treatment.
  
• Medical Subjects: Depressive Disorder--therapy.
  
• Description:xvi, 184 p. ; 22 cm.
  
• Series:Coping with series (Oxford, England)
  
• ISBN:9781851688357
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. journey in and out of depression: a patient's perspective
  Becoming ill
  Getting better
  What worked for me
  What I learnt about myself
  Where I am now
  2. What is depression and how can you check if you are depressed?
  experience of depression
  How depression is diagnosed
  Other types of depression
  Depression and other mental health problems
  Depression questionnaire
  Key points covered in this chapter
  3. What are the key facts and figures about depression?
  How common is depression?
  Men, women and depression
  Depression and other socio-demographic factors
  Causes of depression
  Course of depression
  Consequences of depression
  Suicide
  Key points covered in this chapter
  4. Changing how you feel by changing your biology: a psychiatrist's perspective
  Normal sadness versus clinical depression
  option of taking medication
  What happens at your first psychiatric consultation
  Why can medication be necessary?
  Misgivings about taking medication
  Taking medication: process and expectations
  selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors (SSRIs)
  Common side effects of SSRIs
  What happens after you start taking medication
  What about Lithium Carbonate?
  serotonin and noradrenaline re-uptake inhibitors (SNRIs)
  tri-cyclic anti-depressants (TCAs)
  monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs)
  Recovery from depression and maintenance medication
  Final notes on electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)
  Key points covered in this chapter
  5. Changing how you feel by changing how you behave
  Behavioural theories of depression
  Behavioural activation
  Activity monitoring
  Activity scheduling
  Values and goals
  Avoidance
  Types of avoidance
  Overcoming avoidance
  Breaking tasks down into small steps
  Self-soothing
  Key points covered in this chapter
  6. Changing how you feel by changing what you think
  Cognitive theories of depression
  Beck's theory of depression
  Types of thinking biases
  Learning to talk back to negative automatic thoughts
  Common difficulties with challenging negative automatic thoughts
  Behavioural experiments
  Using behavioural experiments to become more active
  Key points covered in this chapter
  7. Changing how you feel by changing your unhelpful assumptions
  Origins of unhelpful assumptions
  Identifying unhelpful assumptions
  Challenging unhelpful assumptions
  Key points covered in this chapter
  8. Changing how you feel by changing how you relate
  Origins and definition of IPT
  Goals and characteristics of IPT
  Therapeutic phases of IPT
  Grief (complicated bereavement)
  Interpersonal role disputes
  Role transitions
  Interpersonal sensitivity
  Final phase of IPT
  Key points covered in this chapter
  9. Feeling well, staying well: preventing relapse and recurrence of depression
  What makes depression return and how can it be prevented?
  Staying well by continuing to take maintenance medication
  Staying well by continuing `booster' sessions of maintenance psychotherapy
  Staying well by remaining behaviourally active and healthy
  Staying well by continuing to challenge negative thinking
  Staying well by continuing to relate well and develop healthy relationships
  Staying well by continuing to challenge and test unhelpful assumptions
  Staying well by practising mindfulness meditation
  Staying well by solving problems effectively
  Key points covered in this chapter
  Brief concluding remarks.