Depression: The Therapist’s Toolkit

To competently treat depression, today’s therapists should have a broad understanding of its symptoms and causes and have different treatments in their toolkit.This basic course provides a general overview of depression’s symptoms and traditional treatments, detailed traditional treatment guidelines, issues and controversies surrounding antidepressant medications, and describes the surprising incidence of depression among pregnant women and new mothers and how it can affect infants, as well as newer therapies and treatments for depression.