Overcoming Depression For Dummies, UK Edition

Elaine Iljon Foreman, MSc, is an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, and has researched and treated anxiety and depression for over 25 years. Charles H Elliott, PhD, and Laura L Smith, PhD, are clinical psychologists.

• Foreword. Introduction.Part I: Discovering Depression and Designing Defences.Chapter 1: Understanding and Overcoming Depression.Chapter 2: Detecting Depression.Chapter 3: Breaching Barriers to Change.Chapter 4: Finding Help for Depression.Part II: Seeing Things More Clearly: Cognitive Therapy.Chapter 5: Uncovering Underlying Thought Processes.Chapter 6: Dispersing the Dark Clouds of Depressive Thinking.Chapter 7: Discovering the Distorting Perceptions Behind Depression.Chapter 8: Amending Your Memory.Part III: Actively Combating Depression: Behaviour Therapy.Chapter 9: Don’t take it Lying Down!Chapter 10: Exercising to Lift Depression.Chapter 11: Rediscovering Healthy Pleasures.Chapter 12: Handling Life’s Headaches.Part IV: Adjusting to Changing Relationships.Chapter 13: Working through Loss, Grief, and Mourning.Chapter 14: Revitalising Relationships.Part V: Full Bodied Assault: Biological Therapies to Fight the Physical Foe.Chapter 15: Maximising Medication Benefits.Chapter 16: Help and Hope: Exploring Complementary Therapies for Depression.Part VI: Life After Depression.Chapter 17: Reducing the Risk of Relapse.Chapter 18: Overcoming Depression with Mindfulness.Chapter 19: Heading for Happiness Through Positive Psychology.Part VII: The Part of Tens.Chapter 20: Ten Ways of Improving Your Mood.Chapter 21: Ten Ways of Helping a Child with Depression.Chapter 22: Ten Ways of Helping a Friend or Partner with Depression.Appendix: Resources for You.Index.

"... this text is an extremely comprehensive guide for someone who wants to learn more about depression itself...." (British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies, July 2009)