How to Lift Depression – effective brief therapy
with Joe Griffin
WORKSHOP OUTLINE:
Joe Griffin’s workshop caused a sensation when it was featured on BBC Radio 4’s All in the Mind. Depression is now so common that all health professionals need to know how to lift it – especially as it can lead to suicide. This workshop has saved lives.
Until recently, depression was little understood, but now you can absorb the easy-to-learn psychological techniques that lift it quickly ... even in the severest cases. Antidepressants (though dangerous) can play a role in reducing symptoms, but research shows that appropriate counselling is the most effective way to lift even the most severe depression, and has a much lower rate of relapse.
What you gain from the day
- Greater confidence in lifting depression and preventing suicides
- New insight into why depressed people wake up tired and unmotivated, and what to do about it
- Demonstrations of the skills that quickly break the cycle of depression, move people on and prevent relapse
- A profound understanding of why they work and are a big improvement on drug therapy
- Practice sessions in using the skills and techniques yourself
- A range of useful tips and strategies
- New insight into the dissociative elements of depressive lifestyles
- Techniques for tackling rigid thinking and negative expectancy, and the pessimistic rumination that causes depression.
Who should attend
- Anyone working in healthcare or related fields who comes across depressed people and wishes to help them.
- If you need to deepen your understanding for personal reasons, or live or work with a depressed person, you should attend.
- If you are curious about how cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and solution focused brief therapy (SFBT) approaches treatment outcomes can be improved by bringing them into line with the new findings from brain research, you should attend
SEMINAR PROGRAMME:
The Workshop Day:
Registration: 8.30am to 9.30am (Tea or coffee before 9.25am)
9.30am Why people get depressed and what you can do about it
Understanding the cycle of depression and why it is not a biological illness. The role of drugs in treatment. Why men and women depress in different ways – what this means for treatment approaches. The emotional brain and black and white thinking. How to make sure your therapy is active, time limited and focused on current problems. How to resolve symptoms quickly. How to reframe thoughts of suicide. Challenging negative thinking in yourself and your clients: Exercise.
11.00am — Refreshment and discussion
11.30am How to distinguish between process and content
Building rapport quickly with a depressed person. Solution focused history taking. Separating the process from the content: exercise. When working with depressed people it is essential that you do not get mesmerised by their story and the abstract language they use (otherwise they can depress you!). How to protect yourself against this happening: exercise. How to clarify the sufferer’s attributional style and change it: Exercise. VIDEO of brief therapy with suicidal patient.
1.00pm — Lunch (provided)
2.00pm The two most important questions to ask
Changing brain patterns. How to find out what new understanding or skills a person needs to move on with their life. How to teach them those skills or provide a context where they can learn them. Setting behavioural tasks: Exercise.
3.15pm — Refreshment and discussion
3.45pm Making sure the therapy is working
How to make sure patients don’t drop out of therapy prematurely and keep coming back for each session until they are out of their depression. Imaginative focus to change behaviour. Working with postpartum (postnatal) depression. Discussion and opportunity for questions.
4.45pm — Day ends |
