Depression Recovery
Important Information
All of our group classes are now running online, and how we monitor your progress is online too. You are required to complete a mood measure questionnaire prior to each session. You will receive a text reminder and link to the questionnaires 48 hours before your session starting. You must complete your online questionnaires at least 2 hours before each session of your group to receive an invite.
The Classes
This course helps us to identify how our depression is maintained by negative and unhelpful thoughts and withdrawal and avoidance behaviour. The course teaches CBT interventions to help overcome depression, including: improving your sleep, tackling avoidance, recognising and challenging negative thinking and problem solving.
Week one: Introduction and first steps
We will cover the most common signs and symptoms of depression and look at some case studies to illustrate this. We will also introduce CBT and start to look at how we get trapped in vicious cycles by looking at the 5 areas assessment. Finally we will look at getting a better nights sleep.
Week two: Depression and our behaviour Part one
We will start to look at how your behaviour may have changed since becoming depressed, and how changes such as avoidance and putting things off can then feed back into the depression and keep it going. We introduce the first technique of the course, behavioural activation, and discuss how it can help us break the cycle of avoidance by starting to gradually plan in activities.
Week three: Depression and our behaviour Part two
This week focuses on how we can keep behavioural activation going by continuing to gradually add in more activities. We also introduce two new techniques which could help us with behavioural activation: a practical problem solving approach to help us kick start our natural problem solving abilities, and refocussing which can help us to stop ruminating and fully engage in the activities we are doing.
Week four: Depression and our thoughts Part one
We turn our attention to the role of our thoughts this week, gaining an understanding of the role negative thoughts play in maintaining our depression. We introduce a technique to help us to identify these negative automatic thoughts and we discuss a number of common thinking errors.
Week five: Depression and our thoughts Part two
Now we have learnt to identify our negative automatic thoughts, this week we cover a technique called thought challenging which helps us to start to challenge these thoughts and change the way we think about situations. We learn how to question if these thoughts are accurate and come up with alternative balanced ways of thinking.
Week six: Maintaining progress
In the final session of the course we start to make a plan about how we can maintain and build upon the progress we have made so far. We re-cap all the of the interventions covered in the course and discuss next steps.
Daytime Depression Recovery Class - 22nd February - 29th March
Event starts: 22nd Feb 2021 2:00pm
Event ends: 29th Mar 2021 4:00pm
Depression Recovery classes are now held online.
Classes will run every Monday afternoon from 2pm - 4pm, starting on the 22nd February 2021, for 6 weeks.
Information on how the groups work, instructions for attending, and the class content can be found above. Please do not book onto multiple groups as you will only be able to attend one.
Evening Depression Recovery Class - 9th March - 13th April
Event starts: 9th Mar 2021 5:00pm
Event ends: 13th Apr 2021 7:00pm
Depression Recovery classes are now held online.
Classes will run every Tuesday Evening from 5pm - 7pm for 6 consecutive weeks.
Information on how the groups work, instructions for attending, and the class content can be found above. Please do not book onto multiple groups as you will only be able to attend one.