Main description:

The Group Workbook for Treatment of Persistent Depression is a guide for patients suffering from persistent depression who participate in group therapy. The workbook provides handouts and skills training that require the help of a trained professional to teach and animate in a group format. Patients will be able to maximize their acquisition of emotion coping skills by using this book in conjunction with Group-CBASP sessions.

Contents:

Forward Preface Acknowledgements Introduction
1. Group-CBASP Session 1:
* Presentation of Group Members
* CBASP Group Therapy Sessions Outline * Group Agreements
* Assessing your Current Depressive Symptoms
* Persistent versus Major Depression
* Major Depression Diagnostic Criteria
* Do you have Major Depressive Disorder?
* Do you have Persistent Depressive Disorder (Dysthymia)?
* Course Profiles for Persistent Depressive Disorders
* Two Types of Persistent Depression
* What has been the Course of your Depression?
* Depression Timeline Worksheet - Handout 1
* What has been the Cost of your Depression?
* Mood Chart - Handout 2
* Medications for Depression
* General Guidelines about Medication for Depression

2. Group-CBASP Session 2:
* The Interpersonal Domain - Handout 3
* Your Activity Log - Handout 4
* The Cycle of Depression and Inactivity
* Activities - Handout 5
* Deal with Anxiety that is Linked to Depression

3. Group-CBASP Session 3:
* How Maladaptive Thinking can Lead to Maladaptive Coping
* The Cycle of Hopelessness and Powerlessness Leads to Persistent Depression - Handouts 6 & 7
* How can we Break the Cycle? - Handout 8
* Situational Analysis (SA) (Coping Survey Questionnaire)
* Understanding Steps of the SA Within a Group Setting - Handout 9
* Example of a Situational Analysis

4. Group-CBASP Session 4:
* Remediation Phase of the Situational Analysis - Handout 10
* What is a Future Situational Analysis - Handout 11

5. Group-CBASP Session 5:
* Practicing the Situational Analysis with Elicitation and Remediation Phases

6. Group-CBASP Session 6:
* Your Interpersonal Domain - Handout 12

7. Group-CBASP Sessions 7 & 8:
* Practicing the Situational Analysis with Elicitation and Remediation Phases

8. Group-CBASP Session 9 & 10:
* Understanding our Interpersonal Interactions
* Your Interpersonal Circumplex - Values/Motives - Handout 13
* Your Interpersonal Circumplex - Efficacy - Handout 14
* Eight Styles of Interpersonal Relating - Handout 19

9. Group-CBASP Session 11 & 12:
* Your Interpersonal Circumplex -Inventory of Interpersonal Problems - Handout 15
* Understanding Extreme Scores of Interpersonal Conflict

10. Group-CBASP Session 13 & 14:
* Complementary and Non-Complementary Interactions
* Hidden Motives

11. Group-CBASP Session 15 & 16:
* Putting it all Together
* Your Interpersonal Profile - Handout 16

12. Group-CBASP Session 17 to 20:
* Prepare for Termination
1. Assess your Learning
2. Addressing Termination, Reviewing your Goals and Saying Good-Bye

13. Appendices
References Index