Depression Management Diploma Course

SFTR Accredited Open College Diploma Course

This course provides an effective and practical way of improving how you or your clients feel. It is ideal for professional health care workers and anyone, including non health care professionals experiencing states of depression and low moods. This pack shows the depressed person how to better face common everyday challenges using mindfulness techniques during times of depression, encouraging you to make positive change and avoid relapse in a clear achievable way.

Rebalance your relationships, become more assertive in yourself, build a stronger tolerance to life's everyday stresses, improve your confidence, reduce negative and destructive undermining thinking, This course will help you to improve yourself and others thinking, either face to face or within a group setting.

The main aim of the course is to guide therapists or individual sufferers of depression to break habitual negative thought patterns using cognitive therapy-meditation with mindfulness techniques.

This course is ideal for all health care professionals and complete beginners or students wanting to learn more about managing depression through an eight session programme designed to reduce low mood and prevent relapse from depression. Using a cognitive therapy approach and guided deep meditation practice, this technique has proved to be effective in controlled clinical settings. This course is suitable for all health care professionals running one to one and group therapy sessions.

The course provides an invaluable resource for nurses; counsellors; mental care health workers; carers; social workers; psychotherapists; drug workers; psychologists; GPs; doctors; psychiatrists; Samaritans; telephone advisers; refuge staff; medical centre staff; helping agencies; hospital staff; many other therapists - mainstream and complementary; colleges; institutes etc.


Covers:

Depression. The problem

Models in mind

Development of mindfulness

Depression relapse, cognition and mood

Changing negative thinking

Dealing with obstacles and mental blocks

The cognitive program

Deep meditation

How to deal with mood

How to keep your mind here and now

How to recognise intrusive negative thoughts

Guides for health care professionals using this approach


Course duration: on average 6 months home study


Contains:

Test papers - presentation clamp folder

In-depth course text book using an effective Cognitive-Meditation Therapy approach for the management of depression

Detailed instructional study guide

Study time log of your hours undertaken for records/proof of study course hours undertaken

Free deep relaxation CD

A4 size membership wall display certificate into the college. Allowing you the use of MOC after your name

2nd A4 size membership wall display certificate into the SFTR. Allowing you the use of MSFTR after your name

Upon completion of this course you will be entitled to the use of Dip.dep.m after your name.

To order this course you can call the College for an order form or prospectus to be sent to you or print off the order form here and simply send it to us with a cheque or postal order or recorded cash to the College address. Further course details and fees can be found here


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