Depression is one of the most common issues that people bring to
therapy. It is also a mental health condition with several
well-known and readily available medications to treat it. That
said, every clinician knows that medications do not work for all
clients, and even if they do work they can often come with
unwelcome side effects that are difficult and hard to bear. In
short, medications are not foolproof.
Fortunately today, with rising interest in non-drug approaches,
effective and easy-to-implement alternative strategies exist for
dealing with depression in your clients, either in conjunction with
medication treatments or on their own. Six of the best are
presented in this book.
With his characteristic mix of insightful clinical anecdote and
personal narrative, seasoned therapist Bill O Hanlon lays out six
of his go-to non-medication strategies for clinicians to use with
their own depressed clients. These include marbling (training
people to intersperse happy memories with sad ones so that over
time they move away from a feeling of such negativity); challenging
isolation in clients (helping them to see the benefits of the
social world); and understanding neuroplasticity and how it can be
used to your clients advantage.
Bill O Hanlon writes from a place of experience. As a youth, he
was so severely depressed that he contemplated suicide. His
successful rise from that dark place, some 30 years ago, can be
seen as the starting point for this book. Many of the strategies he
used to overcome his own illness he now puts forward here, with
compassion and wisdom, so that other clinicians may benefit.
Every depressed person experiences his or her own variety of the
illness, and as therapists we need to help our clients discover
their own paths to healing. Armed with the compelling, non-drug
strategies in this book, clinicians will be able to do just that,
opening up a new route to health and wellness. Whether you
routinely prescribe psychotropic drugs or would never think of
doing so, this book may offer just the advice you need to advance
your therapy work and make a real difference in your depressed
clients lives."
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