CBT for Depression Treatment Series Week 6
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The content segments provide an overview of session six in a week-by-week guide to depression treatment led by Dr. Dawn Elise Snipes. The session begins with a review of morning and evening mindfulness logs to assess the person's overall well-being and identify any improvements or setbacks. The importance of regularly practicing meditation and distress tolerance skills is emphasized to access the wise mind during times of distress.
The next step involves reviewing the person's progress in their top three depression symptoms to determine if there have been any incremental improvements. The significance of nutrition and sleep in the recovery process is discussed, highlighting their fundamental role in treating depression, addiction, and physical illness.
The cognitive distortions worksheet is revisited to help individuals identify thinking errors that contribute to negative emotions. The goal is to restructure thinking patterns so that unhelpful thoughts can be reframed without needing the worksheet.
The session also focuses on exploring the events that trigger anxiety, anger, or depression and understanding why these events promote a sense of unsafeness or disempowerment. By identifying the activating event and its consequences, individuals can gain insight into the underlying causes of their emotional reactions.
In addition, the session delves into the beliefs that contribute to feeling unsafe or disempowered, examining how certain triggers may be related to past experiences. The grief process is reviewed, emphasizing that it is not linear but fluctuates between different stages. The person's autobiography is examined to identify traumatic events and themes related to loss, rejection, or abandonment.
Overall, session six aims to develop self-awareness, improve coping skills, and make positive changes in individuals' lives by addressing mindfulness, symptom improvement, nutrition, cognitive distortions, triggers for negative emotions, beliefs, and grief processing.
The content segments provide an overview of session six in a week-by-week guide to depression treatm