COURSE DESCRIPTION

This handbook examines the nature and etiology of depression, focusing on its identification, severity, and implications for psychotherapeutic treatments. Clinical cases are used throughout to highlight and enrich the material.

DETAILS

This home-study course consists of a 48-page Adobe PDF document featuring a 20-item post-test consisting of multiple choice questions. The document should be downloaded to your computer where you can view it and read it, or print it and read it. You pay for the course when you submit the post-test for scoring.

Click here to download the document.

TOPICS

This handbook is designed to answer the following questions:

1.             What is depression?

2.             When does it reflect “normalcy” and when is it more serious?

3.             Who is affected by depression?

4.             How does the psychotherapist identify and treat depression?

5.             How do depressed clients impact the psychotherapist?

GOALS

At the conclusion of this program you should be better able to:

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SPEAKER PROFILE