Positive Affect Treatment for Depression and Anxiety: Workbook includes all necessary materials, including worksheets and activities, for therapists and clients to complete the treatment program for depression, anxiety and anhedonia, in order to help individuals regain interest and enjoyment in their usual activities while improving their quality of life.
Positive Affect Treatment for Depression and Anxiety: Therapist Guide is a modular manual presenting a unified treatment approach for depression, anxiety and anhedonia, designed to help individuals regain interest and enjoyment in their usual activities while improving their quality of life.
"This book culminates a career-long search for justice. I felt it important to understand what it is and where it came from as a feature of human society, of human life. I wound up in a department of education, perhaps quite fortuitously, for education enabled me to examine how experiences of justice or injustice in various educational settings shape children and young people's values, behaviors, and chances for living a decent future life"--
Anxiety disorders and depression are among the most prevalent mental disorders with close to one third of the population meeting diagnostic criteria at some point during their lifetimes (Kessler et al., 2005; 2012). Cognitive and behavioral therapies (CBT) are considered to be the most efficacious and empirically supported psychosocial interventions for anxiety and depression (Hofmann & Smits, 2008; Norton & Price, 2007; Tolin, 2010). While research indicates CBT to be superior to several other treatments, placebos, and waitlist controls, there is evidence that not every individual benefits from CBT and response rates hover around 50% at post-treatment (Loerinc et al., 2015). There are also several barriers to evidence-based outpatient treatment for anxiety and depression including cost effectiveness, adherence to the CBT model, and clinical attitudes about delivering evidence-based treatments (Addis, 2002; Barlow, 2004; Barlow et al., 1999; Chorpita & Nakamura, 2004). To address the barriers, researchers have begun developing self-guided or internet-based delivery of CBT. Research indicates no differences in effectiveness between self-guided CBT and traditional face-to-face CBT (Cuijpers et al., 2010; Hedman et al., 2012). Additionally, reliance upon the DSM for clinical decision-making does not appropriately align with neuroscience or genetics (Insel et al., 2010) and recent research suggests that anxiety disorders and depression share common higher-order constructs (Brown, 2007). The Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) is an initiative designed to address these limitations (Insel et al., 2010). Thus, using the principals of RDoC, this study sought to examine the effectiveness of a self-guided approach to the treatment of deficits in reward sensitivity using a positive affect protocol. Participants who self-referred for treatment and met criteria for Depression (CSR >4) on the SCID 5 (First et al., 1994) were recruited for the study. Utilizing a multiple baseline experimental design, participants were randomized to a 2, 4, or 6-week baseline prior to treatment administration to test the effects of the positive affect intervention on symptoms of depression and anxiety. The 15-session intervention included pleasant events scheduling, attending to the positive, and cultivating positive emotions. The daily measures largely did not reflect that symptoms remained stable during the baseline phase and reduced during the intervention period. We did find, however, that symptoms of depression and anxiety decreased overall on pre/post measures of depression and anxiety symptoms. Additionally, diagnosis severity of depression decreased for all participants on the SCID 5.
In recent years, there has been a growing awareness of the multiple interrelationships between depression and various physical diseases. The WPA is providing an update of currently available evidence on these interrelationships by the publication of three books, dealing with the comorbidity of depression with diabetes, heart disease and cancer. Depression is a frequent and serious comorbid condition in diabetes, which adversely affects quality of life and the long-term prognosis. Co-occurrent depression presents peculiar clinical challenges, making both conditions harder to manage. Depression and Diabetes is the first book devoted to the interaction between these common disorders. World leaders in diabetes, depression and public health synthesize current evidence, including some previously unpublished data, in a concise, easy-to-read format. They provide an overview of the epidemiology, pathogenesis, medical costs, management, and public health and cultural implications of the comorbidity between depression and diabetes. The book describes how the negative consequences of depression in diabetes could be avoided, given that effective depression treatments for diabetic patients are available. Its practical approach makes the book ideal for all those involved in the management of these patients: psychiatrists, psychologists, diabetologists, general practitioners, diabetes specialist nurses and mental health nurses.
This volume focuses on one of the most prevalent and devastating psychiatric disorders, depression. The contributors apply a developmental analysis to the etiology, course, and sequelae of depression across the lifespan. The effects of depression on multiple domains of functioning, including socio-emotional, social cognitive, and psychobiological, are explored. In addition to the impact of the disorder on the depressed individual, its role on the developmental process in offspring of depressed parents and for families having a depressed member are examined and reviewed. Contributors: BARRY NURCOMBE, PAUL F. COLLINS, RICHARD A. DEPUE, JEFFREY F. COHN, SUSAN B. CAMPBELL, KARLEN LYONS-RUTH, PAMELA M. COLE, CAROLYN ZAHN-WAXLER, JAMES C. COYNE, GERALDINE DOWNEY, JULIE BOERGER, CONSTANCE HAMMEN, E. MARK CUMMINGS, PATRICK R. DAVIES, DONNA T. ROSE, LYN Y. ABRAMSON, JULES R. BEMPORAD and STEVEN J. ROMANO.
This timely, authoritative volume provides an integrative review of current knowledge on child and adolescent depression, covering everything from epidemiology and neurobiology to evidence-based treatment and prevention. From foremost scientist-practitioners, the book is organized within a developmental psychopathology framework that elucidates the factors that put certain children at risk and what can be done to help. Proven intervention models are discussed in step-by-step detail, with coverage of cognitive-behavioral, interpersonal, and pharmacological approaches, among others. Special topics include sex differences in depression, understanding and managing suicidality, and the intergenerational transmission of depression.
Exercise has long been touted anecdotally as an effective tool for mood improvement, but only recently has rigorous science caught up with these claims. There is now overwhelming evidence that regular exercise can help relieve low mood-from feelings of stress and anxiety to full depressive episodes. With Exercise for Mood and Anxiety, Michael Otto and Jasper Smits, well-known authorities on cognitive behavioral therapy, take their empirically-based mood regulation strategy from the clinic to the general public. Written for those with diagnosed mood disorders as well as those who simply need a new strategy for managing the low mood and stress that is an everyday part of life, this book provides readers with step-by-step guidance on how to start and maintain an exercise program geared towards improving mood, with a particular emphasis on understanding the relationship between mood and motivation. Readers learn to attend carefully to mood states prior to and following physical activity in order to leverage the full benefits of exercise, and that the trick to maintaining an exercise program is not in applying more effort, but in arranging one's environment so that less effort is needed. As a result readers not only acquire effective strategies for adopting a successful program, but are introduced to a broader philosophy for enhancing overall well-being. Providing patient vignettes, rich examples, and extensive step-by-step guidance on overcoming the obstacles that prevent adoption of regular exercise for mood, Exercise for Mood and Anxiety is a unique translation of scientific principles of clinical and social psychology into an action-based strategy for mood change.
Positive Psychology has experienced extraordinary growth over the past decade. Emerging research in this area is suggesting new strategies for improving everyday life, healthcare, education systems, organizations and work life, and societies across the globe. This book will be of interest to all applied psychologists, applied researchers, social and organizational psychologists, and anyone interested in applying the science of positive psychology to improvement of the human condition.
