Working with Depression

Depression is the most common mood disorder in the world and continues to be on the rise in all age groups. Worldwide, over 300 million people suffer from depression and each year over 700,000 end their life in despair.

Major Depressive Disorder, or simply called depression, can be the result of many contributing factors. These might include a genetic predisposition, a history of physical or emotional abuse, loss of a loved one, medication side effects, substance misuse, conflict and war, and chronic illness, to name just a few of those factors.

Even though there are many ways to help those suffering with depression, most people rely on medications rather than pursuing non-pharmacological approaches such as psychotherapy. Fortunately, depression is highly responsive to well-targeted therapeutic interventions as long-term therapy and follow-up studies indicate.

Medications alone are not and can never be an entirely adequate reply to the growing rates of depression for reasons that will be discussed in this webinar.

“Adjusting” individuals chemically while individuals, couples and families face life challenges they are not adequately prepared to meet suggests the problem is always in their biology and not their circumstances.

This is an increasingly untenable position to take given the current research that emphasizes the merits of active forms of psychotherapy.

Good psychotherapy applied strategically can teach the kinds of specific skills that are known to not only reduce depression, but even prevent it. In this three-part 4-hour highly practical webinar, we will consider some of the key targets of effective treatment and ways to reach them.