How to Break the Cycle of Depression
with Joe Griffin
SEMINAR OUTLINE:
Joe Griffin’s iconoclastic seminar shatters the many myths about depression and how best to treat it.
Despite enormous efforts to improve the nation's mental health, the number of people suffering from depression is still rising (and increasingly so among children, young people and the elderly). Millions are affected in some way – yet it is actually one of the most treatable disorders health professionals are asked to help with, as this inspiring seminar shows.
Find out why depressed people are always so tired and unmotivated and why the appropriate psychotherapy has a dramatically lower rate of relapse than antidepressants and is the most effective treatment, even with severe cases.
What you gain from the day
- Essential information about why people become depressed
- A better understanding of what depression really is, why it’s on the increase and how to diagnose it
- Practical help to quickly break patterns of depression, move people on and prevent relapse
- New insights into the dissociative elements of depressive lifestyles
- Techniques for tackling rigid thinking and negative expectancy
- Ways to talk to suicidal people – this seminar saves lives.
Who should attend
- All health and welfare professionals: if you have to deal with, treat or care for depressed people, and wish to be more effective, this seminar is for you.
- If you need to deepen your understanding for personal reasons, or if you live or work with a depressed person, this seminar is for you.
- If you are curious about more effective and rapid ways to reduce misery and improve psychotherapy outcomes, this seminar is for you.
SEMINAR PROGRAMME:
The Seminar Day:
Registration: 8.30am to 9.30am (Tea or coffee served until 9.25am)
9.30am Why depression is on the increase
Despite the increasing attention given to mental health, depression still affects millions of lives at great cost to society. Find out how to quickly spot the symptoms of depression. What causes it – cultural, family and individual influences – and why it now seems an inevitable part of modern life. Why the 'disease' model of depression is not appropriate. The use of anti-depressant drugs and their dangerous side effects. The research that shows why depression is not a biological illness and why an exclusively biological approach to diagnosis and treatment is mostly anti-therapeutic. Suicide and self-harm – risk factors and management.
11.00am — Tea/coffee
11.30am The cycle of depression
Why women suffer more depression than men and, statistically, take twice as long to recover. How this discovery produced more effective treatment. Why some common psychotherapeutic strategies make matters worse for depressed people. How depression is learned. Why depression appears in many different forms. The newly discovered links between emotional arousal, REM sleep, dreaming and depression. The connection between anger, guilt and depression. Understanding how depression is an emotion that invades all dimensions of a person’s life including physiology, thought patterns, relationships, attitude to work and emotional behaviour. Depression as a symptomatic trance that can be interrupted.
1.00pm – Lunch
2.00pm Effective treatment strategies
Three brief therapy techniques that reliably interrupt the ongoing pattern of a depressed person’s experience. How to calm anxiety quickly, promoting optimism by challenging negative self suggestions and dissolving negative trance states. Identifying patients’ missing skills. Helping people to externalise their problems and be more flexible. The importance of ‘sequencing’. Stimulating positive new patterns through experience. Depression, dying and death.
3.00pm — Tea/coffee
3.30pm Postnatal depression and managing bipolar disorder
Factors that lead to postnatal depression and how we can effectively treat it. Managing bipolar disorder by psychological means. Summary of the day.
4.30pm — Day ends |
