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Overcoming Depression and Low Mood: a Five Areas Approach
£34.00
This book teaches important information about how low mood can affect someone’s life. It aims to help the people work out why they sometimes feel low, anxious, angry, or guilty. The reader will learn proven practice skills to help change how they feel.
Edition: 4
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| Weight | 0.62 kg |
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| Dimensions | 17 × 1.8 × 24 cm |
| Language | English |
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Description
This British Medical Association (BMA) highly commended award-winning book. It is also one of the recommended books to receive the ABCT (Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies) seal of approval – a leading North American organisation for Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.
This book teaches important information about how low mood can affect someone’s life. It aims to help the people work out why they sometimes feel low, anxious, angry, or guilty. The reader will learn proven practice skills to help change how they feel.
The reader may be using this for themselves. However, it is routinely used as a resource by health and social care practitioners across a wide range of services and countries with many tens of thousands of people benefiting from this supported Step 2 CBT approach.
This edition includes workbooks to educate and address understanding low mood and depression, behavioural activation/doing things that make you feel better, identifying and changing negative automatic thoughts/unhelpful thinking, overcoming problems, improving sleep, using medication, planning for the future and more.
Watch Professor Williams describe this product.
Research: This includes a RCT of this book being evaluated in a UK community setting, as well as before-after data on over 15,000 people being supported by the approach in Canada as part of the Bounceback Programme.
Visit our Research trials page to see research evidence for our wide range of resources.
How to use this Resource
Available as a printed or online book that can be worked through by the reader alone, or with support from a supporter/practitioner.
Telephone and face to face protocol available.
Clinical/teaching licence permission given for copies to be made of pages provided they are for the sole use of the purchaser for their own personal use (including as a professional practitioner to client basis).
Apple and Kindle book versions are available from the Taylor and Francis website.
Worksheets help take the learning off the page so it can be applied in the readers life.
By using clearly described practical tools in these workbooks in can help people make changes in their life.
It covers how to support someone in short or longer sessions depending on patients’ needs.
Written for members of the public, and a resource for practitioners/supporters working with people one to one.
Online self-directed learning module(s): available on www.llttf.com
Supporter's Notes
This book resource is available in several formats:
a. Printed book (single purchase or bulk)
b. Online book to read via the Taylor and Francis website.
c. Multiple Translations are available. See the Taylor and Francis website or contact the Five Areas office.
Books can be delivered in several formats:
a. Unsupported – e.g. people access and read (e.g. Book Prescription scheme- this book has been recommended in the book prescription scheme for England and Wales)
b. With 1:1 support e.g. coaching, community/primary care/voluntary sector, schools/colleges/universities, occupational health, alcohol reduction services, IAPT /NHS Talking Therapies for Anxiety and Depression Step 2 etc.
Online self-directed learning module(s) for use by clients: available on www.llttf.com
Practitioner Training: We can provide live training classes separately on how to introduce and support this resource – called the SPIRIT Training (see www.llttf.com/training or contact training@llttf.com)
Supporter Online training: We have a growing range of self-directed practitioner training modules available at www.llttf.com
About the Author
Dr Chris Williams is Emeritus Professor of Psychosocial Psychiatry at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and Past-President of the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP). His main area of interest is making Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) approaches accessible to all. He is an Honorary Fellow of BABCP.
