Cognitive Therapy for Reducing and Preventing Depressive Moods

Cognitive-Behaviour Therapy for Depressive Rumination

Depressive rumination, defined as “behaviour and thoughts that focus one’s attention on one’s depressive symptoms and on the implications of these symptoms” (Nolen-Hoeksema, 1991, p.569) has been identified as a core process in the onset and maintenance of depression. Rumination is elevated in both currently and formerly depressed patients and tends to be elevated in women relative to men, i.e....

Depressive Moods of Users Portrayed in Twitter

Potential benefits of using online social network data for clinical studies on depression are tremendous. In this paper, we present a preliminary result on building a research framework that utilizes real-time moods of users captured in the Twitter social network and explore the use of language in describing depressive moods. First, we analyzed a random sample of tweets posted by the general Tw...

Imagery-based Cognitive Therapy for Patients with Persistent Depressive Disorder: A Hermeneutic Single-Case Efficacy Design

Background: Persistent depression is a chronic and refractory disorder associated with many mental comorbidities. The effects of traditional cognitive therapy, which is the most common treatment for depression, have been negligible. Objectives: The aim of this study was to assess the effectiveness of imagery-based cognitive therapy in patients with persistent depressive disorder. Methods: Th...

Cognitive therapy and preventing suicide attempts.

Efficacy of Pharmacotherapy and Cognitive Therapy, Alone and in Combination in Major Depressive Disorder

Introduction & Objective: Patients with Major depressive are difficult to treat, and the relative efficacy of medications and cognitive therapy in the treatment of depression is still a matter of deabath. The purpose of this study was to compare the efficacies of antidepressant medication, cognitive therapy and combination of cognitive therapy and antidepressant medication. Materials & Met...