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Depression in adults: treatment and management (NG222)

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about about

• Focus is on

emotional
processing and
finding emotional

meaning, to help
• Individual sessions people find their • May be useful for
delivered by a practitioner own solutions and people with
with therapy-specific develop coping psychosocial,
training and competence. mechanisms.
relationship or
• Usually consists of 12 to • Provides empathic employment
16 regular sessions, listening, facilitated problems

although additional emotional contributing to
sessions may be needed exploration and their depression.
Counselling for people with comorbid encouragement. • May suit people

mental or physical health who do not like
problems or complex • Collaborative use of talking about their
social needs, or to address emotion focused depression in a
residual symptoms. activities to
increase self- group.
• Uses an empirically awareness, to help • Avoids potential
validated protocol people gain greater side effects of
developed specifically for understanding of medication.

depression. themselves, their
relationships, and
their responses to

others, but not
specific advice to
change behaviour.

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