PSYCO239 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Major Depressive Disorder, Automatic Negative Thoughts, Integrative Behavioral Couples Therapy
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These can be divided into psychological, sociocultural, and. Psychological approaches biological approaches: psychological treatments used most often to combat unipolar depression come from three main schools of thought: Widely used despite no strong research evidence of its effectiveness. Psychodynamic therapy believes that unipolar depression results from unconscious grief over real or imagined losses, compounded by excessive dependence on other people and therapists seek to bring these underlying issues to consciousness and work them through. They encourage the depressed client to associate freely, they suggest interpretations of the clients associations, dreams, and displays of resistance and transference and help the person review past events and feelings. Therapists expect that in the course of treatment, depressed clients will eventually gain awareness of the losses in their lives, become less dependent on others, cope with losses more effectively, and make corresponding changes in their functioning.
