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Counselling for Depression (Paperback)
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Counselling for Depression (Paperback)
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Written by the author of the best-selling Counselling Heroin and
Other Drug Users and Counselling Women in Violent Relationships,
this book is another highly practical guide for therapists and
those who are seeking to help depressed people. Paul Lockley shows
how to employ techniques which open up life again for the
depressed. His method requires the active participation of
depressed clients for a successful outcome. Lockley explores the
cognitive aspects of depression, how feelings affect the thinking
process, and thinking influences feelings. He views depression as a
continuum, ranging from mild feelings of being unnaturally 'down'
to the disabling severe clinical state. This absence of labeling
allows clients to help themselves through taking greater control of
their situation. The therapist becomes the enabler to the client,
who learns to work constructively within a gradually expanding
environment. Enabling self-help begins with ensuring that clients
are well informed about their condition, able to normalise rather
than to 'psychiatrise' it. They are also helped to work towards
accepting their feelings and learning how best to deal with them on
a day-to-day basis. The book discusses the sometimes unhelpful
modification of feelings through the use of alcohol or drugs.
Practical measures are explained whereby clients can help
themselves through work at home, doing their own exercises of
relaxation, guided imagination, and journal work. Tackling
depression should be supplemented, where relevant, by more specific
counselling for past abuse, loss or grief. Work, family and
personal stress should also reviewed be as possible contributory
factors. This book is drawn from Paul Lockley's extensive
experience in counselling for depression. It is both informative
and inspiring.
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