– the practical skills you need
Discover how to combine key new insights into the causes and symptoms of depression with a range of powerful psychological techniques to make treatment easier and more consistently effective …
Accredited CPD Certificate : 6 hours
Length 1 day (9.30am - 4.00pm)
Practical, inspiring and full of hopeDR GINA JOHNSON, GP
Why take this course
Until recently depression was little understood but key new insights into its causes and symptoms have made treatment easier and more consistently effective. On this day you will learn how combining these insights with a wide range of different psychological techniques enables the majority of cases to be lifted surprisingly quickly … even severe ones.
Although antidepressants can play a role in reducing symptoms, they can also be dangerous and prove hard to withdraw from – research shows that appropriate counselling is more effective at lifting even the most severe depression, with a much lower rate of relapse. The approach you will learn on this workshop is in this category and is proving very effective – 10,000s of people have already been successfully helped with the knowledge and skills you will learn on the day.
I feel much more confident in my understanding of the process of depression and how to target it with helpful interventionsDANIEL COOPER
What will you learn
New insights into why depressed people wake up tired and unmotivated, and what to do about it
Information about the links between inflammation and depression
Clear, practical steps for lifting even severe depression
Demonstrations of the skills that quickly break the cycle of depression, move people on and prevent relapse
A profound understanding of why these work and are a big improvement on drug therapy
Practice sessions in using these proven skills and techniques yourself
What to do if you suspect someone may be feeling suicidal
How to establish what’s not working in a person’s life and why, using a case history
Techniques for tackling rigid thinking, negative expectancy and the pessimistic rumination that causes depression
How to work with your clients to find effective ways they can get their innate emotional needs met well and in balance
A range of additional useful tips and strategies that you can easily incorporate into your work
The opportunity to watch a film of master therapist Joe Griffin working quickly and successfully with a highly depressed patient
You will also have plenty of time to ask questions of the tutor, who is also a practising therapist herself…
Everyone, not just the caring professions, should do this day.GENERAL PRACTITIONER
Who is this course suitable for?
If your life is affected by depression in any way – perhaps the staff or students you are responsible for at work present with depression, or a friend or family member is depressed – you will benefit from attending
Anyone who, for whatever reason (personal or professional), would like to better understand the causes of depression and be able to offer practical help to people who are depressed
If you would like to know how best to prevent relapses and help clients build long-lasting resilience against future setbacks, this workshop is for you
Anyone concerned about the side effects of drug treatments for depression, who would like to know about the easy-to-learn psychotherapeutic techniques that can lift depression quickly, will benefit from attending
It is essential training for counsellors, psychotherapists, social workers, occupational therapists, HR professionals and all other health and welfare professionals – since depression is now so common, it is crucial to understand it and know how to treat it quickly and effectively.
Good to know
This workshop complements our online course: How to break the cycle of depression.
Guided imagery and visualisation and Therapeutic Language are useful skills to have for implementing the strategies taught on this workshop.
Course Programme
From 8.30am
Registration (Tea and coffee served until 9.25am)
9.30am Understanding depression and what you can do about it
11.00am Discussion over tea/coffee
11.30am Exploring how to work with depression
1.00pm Lunch (included)
1.45pm Practice in using the HG approach
2.45pm Discussion over tea/coffee
3.00pm Guided imagery for depression
4.00pm Day ends
This course has been independently accredited by the internationally recognised CPD Standards Office for 6 hours of CPD training.
On completion of this training you’ll receive CPD certificates from the College and the CPD Standards Office.