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New Hope for the Depressed Client from Bill O’Hanlon

New Hope for the Depressed Client from Bill O’Hanlon

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Depression diagnoses increase by 20% a year. Are you ready to help these new clients ?

As a therapist, you probably see more cases of depression than anything else in your practice, but it remains one of the most challenging conditions to accurately assess and treat. In recent years, however, a range of useful interventions—many with growing levels of empirical support—have emerged to offer clinicians like you a variety of treatment approaches to choose from.

Update and enhance your toolkit for nudging depressed clients into action, help them take charge of their cognitive habits, regulate negative mood states, and rediscover hope.

New Hope for the DEPRESSED CLIENT

6 Sessions on the Latest in Depression Treatment

Fill your treatment toolbox with concrete approaches to keep your practice on the cutting edge! This online course includes 6 hour-long video conversations with today’s leading innovators. Watch them at your own pace while earning 6+ CE hours from the comfort of home.

You’ll Get 6 Sessions on the Latest in Depression Treatment

Lifting the Trance of Depression Bill O’Hanlon, M.S.

Explore a variety of techniques drawn from recent neuroscience findings, Ericksonian hypnosis, and other brief therapy approaches to awaken clients from the bad trance of depression, including:

Marbling depression with non-depression
Shifting your client’s relationship with depression
Restoring social connection
Envisioning a future with possibilities
Restarting brain growth

Bill O’Hanlon, MS, has been a psychotherapist since 1977. He’s written more than 30 books that have been translated into 16 languages. He’s appeared on Oprah and been featured in national magazines and media.

Overcoming Resistance in Depression Treatment David Burns, M.D.

Develop a more powerful and effective approach to shortening depression treatment by learning to:

Recognize the role of both process and outcome resistance in preventing change
Use paradoxical agenda setting before assuming that the depressed client is actually seeking change
Explore methods that intensify the therapist-client alliance and generate deep motivation for full engagement in treatment
Discover the hidden emotions that underlie depression
Help clients develop relapse prevention plans

David Burns, M.D., adjunct clinical professor emeritus of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine, was awarded the A.E. Bennett Award for research on brain chemistry. His books include “When Panic Attacks” and “Feeling Good”.

Depression: An Experiential Approach Michael Yapko, Ph.D.

View video clips of a clinical interview and expand your range of active, skill-building techniques with depressed clients by:

Reviewing the advantages of therapy vs. meds
Helping them make new discriminations that shift their perspective on their problems
Exploring the key role of hypnosis, dissociation, and suggestion in depression treatment
Learning how to convert global cognitions into a linear flow of steps
Incorporating homework assignments that promote active learning into your approach

Michael Yapko, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist and marriage and family therapist, is the author of 12 books, including Treating Depression with Hypnosis; Hand-Me-Down Blues: How to Stop Depression; and Breaking the Patterns of Depression.

The Mindful Way Through Depression Zindel Segal, Ph.D.

Bring the insights of mindfulness traditions into your work with depressed clients by:

Distinguishing cognitive therapy and mindfulness practice
Teaching them how to use the “3 Minute Breathing Space” and other skills as part of an 8-week group program
Helping them cultivate choicefulness through meta-cognition and developing both narrow focus and wide-open awareness practices
Guiding them to prepare a personalized Relapse Prevention Kit
Developing your own mindfulness practice

Zindel Segal, Ph.D., is head of the Cognitive Behavior Therapy Clinic of the Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto.

When Depression and Anxiety Co-Occur Margaret Wherenberg, Psy.D.

Identify seven types of anxious/depressed clients and how to approach each one, including how to:

Motivate the low-energy client and redirect the hopeless ruminative
Calm the panicky depressive and introduce choice with the worried exhausted client
Break the routines of the quiet avoider and teach balance to the high-energy depressive
Challenge the highly anxious depressed client

Margaret Wehrenberg, Psy.D., specializes in anxiety treatment. She’s the author of The 10 Best-Ever Anxiety Management Techniques and The 10 Best-Ever Depression Management Techniques.

The Cognitive Therapy of Depression Judith Beck, Ph.D.

Learn powerful techniques for bringing about enduring changes in depression symptoms by:

Conducting first interviews that not only collect history and data, but generate hope, connection, and goals that guide treatment
Gathering information about previous treatment that help you avoid dead ends and mistakes
Understanding that talk isn’t enough and the important role of writing things down, regular follow-up, and between-session homework
Focusing on small steps in behavioral activation and action plans
Incorporating a range of methods, including experiential techniques and childhood work, into your cognitive orientation

Judith Beck, Ph.D., is the President of the Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy in Philadelphia, a nonprofit that trains therapists in cognitive therapy. Her books include Cognitive Therapy for Challenging Problems: What to Do When the Basics Don’t Work and Cognitive Therapy of Personality Disorders.

Are you ready for…

The latest research about what works when treating depression and what doesn’t
The do’s and don’ts of combining antidepressant medication with talk therapy
Concrete guidance on the most important factors in starting therapy on the right note
Practical tips on the crucial role of homework and behavioral activation with depressed clients
New mind-body and mindfulness approaches, and how to use them with depressed clients
Everything you need to know about relapse prevention

What happens next?

Register now to get your login for instant access to the online portal.
Review all the course materials at your own pace and at your convenience! Access all course videos and materials online forever. Plus, use the CE21 Mobile™ app to access the course content on-the-go, wherever and whenever you want on your mobile devices. Click here for course objectives and outline
Start interacting with other online attendees via chat message boards.
Complete your CE tests online when it’s convenient for you, to earn up to 6+ CEU Hours. Click here for total course CE Credit

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