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#0115 Managing Depression: Yours and Mine

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Charles E. Confer

Curriculum goals include:
* Understanding the differences between "feeling blue" and clinical depression.
* Help another person manage periods of feeling blue as well as contribute to the therapy of an individual who is clinically depressing.
* Coping with their own periods of "being down" or seasons of clinical depressing.

Curriculum content focuses on:
* Identifying the symptoms of depression.
* Differentiating between "feeling blue" and "clinical depression."
* Understanding depression as the result of a strong internal psychological conflict. This conflict effects one's physiology, emotions, thinking and doing behaviors.
* Clarifying the four reasons why people choose depressing.
* Identifying the strategies and interventions that can assist the other person to manage depressing. These strategies and interventions include:
a. The importance of the relationship,
b. Avoiding the Deadly 5,
c. Problem solving skills,
d. Changing "negative" thoughts to positive thoughts,
e. The importance of "Doing" and adding "positive experiences" to life.
* Exploring how the participant can help manage his/her personal depressing by engaging the fifteen possible interventions - strategies - actions to combat depression.

#0115 Managing Depression:
Yours and Mine: Workbook $6.50 Ea.
10+ Copies $5.55 Ea.

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#0116: Managing Depression:
Yours and Mine: Trainer's Guide

To support and enhance the group training process, the Trainer's Guide provides To support and enhance the group training process, the Trainer's Guide provides:

* information on adults as learners;
* suggested training format;
* specific trainer's tips in support of the workbook content;
* a set of transparency masters for the overhead projector or as a guide for preparing flip charts;
* a CD contaning the overhead masters in a PowerPoint presentation and a full color certificate of participation in .pdf form;
* a generic invitation to the training and a certificate of completion along with an evaluation form both designed to be reproduced and used by the trainer - all integrated within the workbook's content.

In addition, a copy of the workbook Managing Depression: Yours and Mine is included with the Trainer's Guide.

#0116 Trainer's Guide $25.00 Ea.

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