Depression Strategies

Depression is a debilitating and sometimes fatal mental illness. It is very commonamong spouses/partners of addicts and adult children raised in addicted families,and is often a co-occurringor subsequent disorder in the addicted client.This is not a how-to-treatdepression book. It is meant for clinicians versed inidentifying and treating depression within the context of treating addiction. Whatsets this book apart from other depression workbooks is that it holds a healthy respectfor cognitive behavioral modalities while recognizing the role of affectiveand spiritual interventions related to depressive disorders.In this revised edition, Dr. Black provides didactic information and reproduciblehandouts. In many of the strategies sections, she presents ideas and formatsfor structured interventions. The use of handouts in the form of writtenexercises, checklists, sentence stems, structured dialogues, and/or art activitiesis an integral part of this therapeutic technique.