Psychotherapy: Depression
What will be an ideal response?
Cognitive therapy (Beck)
Examine, monitor thought processes; recognize "depressive errors"
Challenge / correcting cognitive errors ... substituting less depressing / more realistic thoughts, self-appraisals
Later, underlying negative cognitive schemas targeted
Generally time limited ... 10 to 20 weekly sessions
Interpersonal therapy (Weismann, Klerman)
Focus on problems in relationships
Goals:
Identify life events / stress that ? depression
Focus on one or more of four interpersonal domains
loss role dispute
role transition deficits in social skills
Generally 10 to 20 weekly sessions
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