Chronic depression : interpersonal sources, therapeutic solutions / Jeremy W. Pettit, Thomas E. Joiner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pettit, Jeremy W., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Depression, Mental.

Interpersonal psychotherapy.

Depressive Disorder.

Interpersonal Relations.

Medical Subjects:

Depressive Disorder.

Interpersonal Relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

APA PsycBOOKS.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, [2006]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Summary:

"This book develops a new explanatory framework for chronic depression that is based, where possible, on psychological science. The framework rests on the premise that depression appears to include self-sustaining processes, that these processes may be, at least in part, interpersonal, and that understanding of these processes from an interpersonal standpoint may be useful in applied settings. The book thus builds on this framework to develop clinical implications. The audience for the book should, therefore, include anyone who is concerned with depression. In writing this book, we draw from a large base of empirical research on interpersonal processes in depression. In addition to the book's foundation on research, there are also speculations included herein; we believe they are reasonable ones, and we label them as speculations in the book, but ultimately, the judgment as to whether they are reasonable and useful is left to subsequent psychological and clinical science"--Book. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved).

Contents:

Depression chronicity: perspectives on forms and reasons

Depression as persistent and recurrent scourge

Stress generation

Negative feedback-seeking

Excessive reassurance-seeking

Interpersonal conflict avoidance

Self-handicapping

Blame maintenance

Stable vulnerabilities

The complex interplay of the factors

Application to depression-related disorder: bulimia

Clinical assessment

Therapeutics

Prevention: the potential to save lives.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-201).

Electronic reproduction. Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, 2005. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreement. s2005 dcunns.

Other Format:

Original

ISBN:

1591473063

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Restricted for use by site license.