Self-Help And Depression
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Depression can affect any human being on the planet, arising from a complex interplay between biological vulnerabilities, environmental and social conditions, and personal psychology. The potential to be overwhelmed by life events and/or our own imperfect mental and physical makeup is ever present in all of us. Despite our vulnerabilities, though, not everyone gets depressed, even during truly hard times. Some people seem to cope better than others with life stresses, and they have taught us a great deal about the skills all people can learn to keep depression at bay.
The skills required to navigate oneself through the often stormy seas of life are not just absorbed magically from the atmosphere. For depressed people, or those at risk for depression, they are especially important skills to strive to learn and they are the very skills that Dr. Yapko teaches in his therapy sessions with clients. He has also made them available in various books and CDs, including those described on this website .
Dr. Yapko’s materials can be used both as professional clinical training tools that can teach the artistry of hypnotic and strategic approaches to therapy, and as self-help aids to make it as easy as possible for all people to benefit from the explosion of great insights derived from research into the nature of depression and its effective treatments. Empowering people is a vital part of treatment. Clinicians want and need to have therapeutic strategies ready to implement when they identify specific targets for intervention. And, self-help is an essential part of overcoming depression, even when someone is already in therapy. After all, each person has to be responsible for learning and mastering the skills of managing themselves, whether it’s one’s food intake, getting adequate sleep and physical exercise, or managing one’s mood. Dr. Yapko’s materials for treating depression can help you identify and learn the skills that can most benefit your clients, thereby encouraging you to feel empowered, too.
Books
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| Breaking the Patterns of Depression |
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A comprehensive self-help book rich with information and perspective, teaches readers to enhance their understanding of depression and to personalize their own focused treatment. Readers are encouraged to take an active and experiential approach to helping themselves by using the nearly 100 'Learn by Doing' and 'Shifting Perspectives' structured exercises Dr. Yapko provides to develop the antidepressant life skills discussed in the text. This book is what self-help should be about.
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| Para Romper Los Patrones De La Depresion (Breaking the Patterns of Depression) |
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An abridged Spanish version of the comprehensive self-help book rich with information and perspective, teaching readers to enhance their understanding of depression and to personalize their own focused treatment. Readers are encouraged to take an active and experiential approach to helping themselves by using the nearly 100 'Learn by Doing' and 'Shifting Perspectives' structured exercises Dr. Yapko provides to develop the antidepressant life skills discussed in the text. This book is what self-help should be about.
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| Hand-Me-Down-Blues |
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Leads readers away from blaming their parents, themselves or their spouses for their depression.
Through the many case examples and inspiring stories, readers can learn specific skills to choose different and better responses to life challenges.
Learning effective problem-solving and relationship skills can reduce and even prevent depression, something no medication can ever do.
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| Hypnosis and the Treatment of Depressions |
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Breaks new ground--the first book ever to describe hypnosis as a tool for enhancing cognitive-behavioral therapy for depression. Strategies for using therapeutic metaphors, facilitating flexibility and building positive expectancy are described in detail.
Of special interest is an analysis of a cognitive therapy session by Dr. Aaron Beck according to Dr. Yapko's hypnotic framework. The reader will learn the power of suggestion in any therapeutic form.
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| Treating Depression with Hypnosis |
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As a pioneer in the use of hypnosis in treating depression, Dr. Michael Yapko brings readers the newest research data about overcoming depression as well as detailed examples of hypnotic strategies at work in the clinical context.
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CDs
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| Calm Down: A Self-Help Program for Managing Anxiety |
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Everyone gets anxious from time to time, of course. But, if you find yourself worrying too often, thinking too much about how things may go wrong, spinning around the same thoughts over and over, avoiding situations that cause you discomfort, or regularly feel you might not be able to cope with daily challenges without getting overwhelmed, then anxiety is likely to be a bigger part of your life than it needs to be.
Calm Down! will help you manage – and even prevent – episodes of anxiety in your life. In Calm Down!, Dr. Yapko brings his substantial clinical expertise to teaching you many of the key skills that are known to reduce and even prevent anxious thoughts, feelings and behaviors. These are skills for identifying and correcting the thoughts ("What if…?") and perceptions ("I could never handle it if...") that lead to anxiety.
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| Focusing on Feeling Good |
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This series teaches how to create feelings of comfort while building a positive and clear frame of mind. This program features seven different hyponosis sessions, each targeting a different syptom of depression, providing methods for overcoming depression and creating a new and healthy lifestyle. Available in CD format. |
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| Enfocándose en Sentirse Bien |
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Un Programa Experiencial Dirigido a La Construcción de Habilidades y al Auto-dominio, para Vencer la Depresión (Traducción y voz de Martha Eve Sandoval Walter)
Esta serie innovadora de sesiones de aprendizaje experiencial para vencer la depresión, involucra métodos hipnóticos para enfocar y relajarse. Manejar bien la depresión tiene que ver con poseer las herramientas apropiadas para la tarea y Enfocarse en Sentirse Bien proporciona lo esencial. Estos ejercicios de auto-dominio pueden ayudarle a pensar con mayor claridad, a construir un encuadre mental positivo y a emprender acciones sensatas y apropiadas y consiguientemente a alcanzar de una mejor manera sus objetivos específicos. Enfocarse en Sentirse Bien provee los pasos a seguir para
que usted aprenda a manejar habilidosamente sus estados de ánimo.
Cada sesión práctica le proporciona primeramente una breve discusión de información relevante y de perspectivas sobre del tema en cuestión y luego todas las sesiones (excepto la panorámica inicial) contienen ejercicios para enfocar y ayudarle a involucrarse activamente en modos de pensar, de sentir y de comportarse positivamente. Los temas de las sesiones son los siguientes.
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| Sleeping Soundly |
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Difficulty falling or staying asleep, or having non-rejuvenating sleep, is termed "insomnia." While there can be many different medical and emotional factors that can cause or exacerbate insomnia, one of the most common is the "spinning around and around" of anxiety-producing thoughts, a stressful pattern called "rumination." It is vital to achieving good quality sleep to reduce rumination by managing your thoughts and feelings skillfully. The hypnosis session contained on this CD can help you reduce rumination, fall and stay asleep more easily, and thereby develop good, restorative sleep.
This CD's first track provides an overview of insomnia and its relationship to the way you think and problem-solve. The second track provides a formal hypnosis session for you to listen to, experience, and learn from while developing the ability to sleep well. The hypnosis session is soothing, supportive, and provides an easy path to follow into a good night's sleep.
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Clinical Demonstrations on DVD
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| The Case of Mike: Hypnosis and Building Resources |
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In this informative DVD, viewers have a chance to look on as Dr. Yapko helps Mike, a young husband and father, turn the first major corner in overcoming his moderate to severe depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. As the session opens, Mike is rigidly oriented toward the past, regularly reliving the memories and being flooded with the images of the violent abuse he suffered at the hand of his father. As he describes his predicament, “It just seems like I’m stuck in a gutter and can’t get out.”
Maintaining a clear focus on the skills and resources Mike will need to get out of that gutter, Dr. Yapko artfully steers the session away from the pain of the past to orient Mike to the positive possibilities of the future. It is a magic moment when, at the end, Mike spontaneously laughs and says, “I feel real good!” 20 months later, Mike reports he has been doing better and better, a testimonial to the power of this dynamic session.
Prior to the session Dr. Yapko is interviewed by the hosts of the “Brief Therapy Inside Out” series, of which this session is a part, and following the session Dr. Yapko is asked to explain key aspects of the intervention with Mike. This is a superb teaching tape for those who want to learn the intricacies of Dr. Yapko’s hypnotic and strategic therapeutic approaches.
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