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Strategic Treatment of Depression with Michael Yapko, Ph.DOne hour webinar (unhonline) MP3 & SlidesCourse DescriptionDepression is the most common mood disorder in the world, a problem that is still growing steadily across all age groups. Depression is also one of the more treatable disorders, as long-term therapy and follow-up studies indicate. Despite the overstated and oversimplified view that suggests depression is caused by a neurochemical imbalance in the brain, the clinical and research evidence make it quite clear that depression is about much more than just “bad chemistry.” In fact, depression can have many causes, and there are many factors, including psychosocial ones, that can influence its course and prognosis.Medications alone are not and can never be an entirely adequate reply to the growing rates of depression for reasons that will be explored in this brief clinical training. “Adjusting” individuals chemically while individuals, couples and families face life challenges they are not adequately prepared to meet suggests the problem is always in their biology and not their circumstances. Furthermore, for every person who gets appropriately medicated, many more sink into depression that is either undiagnosed or inappropriately untreated. We as health professionals can do a great deal to address this issue much more realistically.Our knowledge of depression has greatly expanded in recent years, firmly establishing the essential role of psychotherapy and hypnotherapy in treatment. Simply put, there are things therapy can do that no medication will ever be able to do. In this presentation, we will focus on treatment issues and approaches most relevant to therapy. We will broaden the simplistic view of depression as only an individual biologically based disorder in order to recognize how depression is often a direct response to interpersonal hurtful life situations that people don’t cope with very well. This presentation reaffirms the value of good psychotherapy and hypnotherapy. A primary goal is to get clinicians re-energized in addressing depression in ways that empower them as well as their clients.Dr Yapko is a pioneer in the treatment of depression with hypnosis and hypnotherapy.In this course Dr Yapko summarizes his way of working with depression