Depression Strategies: Practical Tools for Professionals Treating Depression

This book is designed as a resource for the clinician versed in identifying and treating depression. Hopefully, it will be a source of inspiration to busy clinicians and serve as a time-saver by providing strategies and exercises for use with clients experiencing depression. This workbook is composed of six sections: Depression -- An Overview, Depression History Strategies, Cognitive Strategies, Affective Strategies, Behavioral Strategies, Conceptive Spiritual Strategies. Sessions include Distorted Thinking Styles, Triggers, Depression Self-Talk, Carried Beliefs, Anger Patterns, Personal Choices, Faith Inspirations and more. In each of the sessions, ideas are given for structured interventions derived from the use of more than 50 reproducible handouts which offer a variety of written exercises, graphs, checklists, sentence stems and art activities. When completed, the handouts provide clients with a tangible picture of their disease and a roadmap for the recovery process. A compact disc, Imageries, is included in this workbook. The disc contains four imageries: Relaxation Exercise, Inner Child Affirmation, Inner Source of Wisdom and Letting Go and Receiving. This is not a how-to-treat depression book. It is meant for use by the clinician already skilled in identifying and treating depression; one who is vigilant in recognizing co-occurring disorders, both psychiatric and addictive. www.claudiablack.com.Black, Claudia is the author of 'Depression Strategies: Practical Tools for Professionals Treating Depression', published 2003 under ISBN 9780910223287 and ISBN 0910223289.