Coping and Adapting
David A. Karp
in Speaking of Sadness: Depression, Disconnection, and the Meanings of Illness
This chapter explores the action that people with depression take about the pain the eventually label as clinical depression. It discusses how individuals try to cope with a adapt to ...
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Letter to The Lancet: Prefrontal Leucotomy
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 2, 1939-1945
In this letter to The Lancet on prefrontal leucotomy, Winnicott holds that the theory that underlying depression, psychosis, and schizophrenia are factors of emotional disturbance has not ...
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The Tree
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 6, 1960-1963
A poem by Winnicott on the subject of the relationships between mothers and children and depression.
Pharmacological Treatments for Unipolar Depression
Stefania Prendes-Alvarez, Alan F. Schatzberg, and Charles B. Nemeroff
in A Guide to Treatments That Work (4 ed.)
Major depressive disorder is a chronic syndrome associated with high mortality (secondary to suicide and increased risk for heart disease, stroke, and other serious diseases). It is one of ...
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Speaking of Sadness: Depression, Disconnection, and the Meanings of Illness
David A. Karp
Combining a scholar's care and thoroughness with searing personal insight, this title brings the private experience of depression into sharp relief, drawing on a remarkable series of ...
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Termination and Maintenance Treatment
Myrna M. Weissman, John C. Markowitz, and Gerald L. Klerman
in The Guide to Interpersonal Psychotherapy: Updated and Expanded Edition
This chapter covers strategies relating to the termination of IPT and maintenance treatment. Sessions usually run weekly for twelve or sixteen weeks for treatment of acute major depression. ...
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What Is IPT?
Myrna M. Weissman, John C. Markowitz, and Gerald L. Klerman
in The Guide to Interpersonal Psychotherapy: Updated and Expanded Edition
IPT is a time-limited, specified psychotherapy developed initially for patients with major depressive disorder and later adapted for other disorders as well. IPT is based on the idea that ...
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Beginning IPT
Myrna M. Weissman, John C. Markowitz, and Gerald L. Klerman
in Clinician's Quick Guide to Interpersonal Psychotherapy
This chapter describes the technical aspects of how to begin interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT), including how to assess depression and complete the tasks of the first sessions. The ...
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Concluding Remarks: What it All Means
Erica Frydenberg
in Beyond Coping: Meeting Goals, Visions, and Challenges
This chapter presents concluding remarks and the effects of the research that has been detailed in this title. It summarizes the arguments and theories put forward by each chapter in the ...
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Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy for Chronic Depression
James P. McCullough Jr. and Elisabeth Schramm
in Handbook of Psychotherapy Integration (3 ed.)
The cognitive behavioral analysis system of psychotherapy (CBASP) is designed specifically for chronic depression and is based on Donald Kiesler’s interpersonal model, with the role of the ...
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Group CBT for the prevention of depression in adults
Pim Cuijpers
in Oxford Guide to Low Intensity CBT Interventions
Chapter 38 considers the use of group CBT for preventing depression in adults. This chapter notes that prevention interventions are typically delivered in a group format, and are best ...
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Risk Area 3: Caregiver Emotional Well-Being
Louis D. Burgio and Matthew J. Wynn
in The REACH OUT Caregiver Support Program: A Skills Training Program for Caregivers of Persons with Dementia, Clinician Guide
This chapter describes one of the five risk areas, namely, caregiver emotional well-being. Caregiving for a person with dementia often is associated with increased levels of depression, ...
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The Family Affected by Depressive Illness in One or Both Parents
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 5, 1955-1959
In this essay Winnicott looks at the effect of serious mental illness in either parent upon the life and development of the growing child. He classifies types of psychiatric illness and ...
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Problem solving as a low intensity intervention
Laurence Mynors-Wallis and Mark A. Lau
in Oxford Guide to Low Intensity CBT Interventions
Chapter 13 focuses on PST, a relatively simple and brief treatment that emphasizes the value of between-session homework and evaluating progress, can be considered a LI treatment for ...
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Common Therapeutic Issues and Patient Questions
Myrna M. Weissman, John C. Markowitz, and Gerald L. Klerman
in The Guide to Interpersonal Psychotherapy: Updated and Expanded Edition
This chapter reviews common therapeutic issues and various questions asked by patients during IPT. Common therapeutic issues include deciding whether a patient’s main problem is a ...
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Overview of Adaptations of IPT
Myrna M. Weissman, John C. Markowitz, and Gerald L. Klerman
in The Guide to Interpersonal Psychotherapy: Updated and Expanded Edition
Because of its success as a psychotherapeutic treatment for acute major depression, IPT has been adapted and tested in the treatment of patients with other disorders and in different ...
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Peripartum Depression: Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Postpartum, Infertility
Myrna M. Weissman, John C. Markowitz, and Gerald L. Klerman
in The Guide to Interpersonal Psychotherapy: Updated and Expanded Edition
IPT is based on the hypothesis that patients who experience social disruptions face an increased risk for depression. Thus, IPT is an interesting potential treatment for addressing symptoms ...
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Depression in Adolescents and Children
Myrna M. Weissman, John C. Markowitz, and Gerald L. Klerman
in The Guide to Interpersonal Psychotherapy: Updated and Expanded Edition
This chapter covers the use of IPT for the treatment of depression in adolescents and children. Adaptations of IPT when used in treating depressed adolescents include flexibility, ...
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An Outline of IPT
Myrna M. Weissman, John C. Markowitz, and Gerald L. Klerman
in The Guide to Interpersonal Psychotherapy: Updated and Expanded Edition
As an acute treatment, IPT has three phases: a beginning, a middle, and an end. Each phase lasts a few sessions and has specific tasks. A fourth phase may follow acute treatment: namely, ...
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Grief
Myrna M. Weissman, John C. Markowitz, and Gerald L. Klerman
in The Guide to Interpersonal Psychotherapy: Updated and Expanded Edition
The symptoms of a normal grief reaction typically resolve over the course of a few months as the person processes the loss, thinking through remembered experiences with the deceased. This ...
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