Summary:

Overcoming Teenage Low Mood and Depression uses the trusted Five Areas model of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) to help young people experiencing low mood or depression to help themselves. The Five Areas model communicates life skills and key interventions in a clear, pragmatic and accessible style, by examining five important aspects of our lives:
Life situation, relationships, resources and problems
Altered thinking
Altered feelings or moods
Altered physical symptoms or sensations
Altered behaviour or activity levels

This exciting collection of practical and effective self-help workbooks has been developed in liaison with a team of experts working with young people. The course provides access to the proven CBT approach, and addresses all the common challenges faced during times of low mood, helping the reader make positive changes in their life in a planned and achievable way. A final workbook is aimed at friends and relatives and describes how to offer support.

The workbooks also provide an invaluable resource for school teachers, counsellors, general practitioners, nursing staff, occupational therapists, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, youth workers and self-help groups and other voluntary sector organisations.

A linked and completely free online support course is located at www.livinglifetothefull.com with additional resources at www.fiveareas.com.

• Targeted at the growing problem of child and adolescent low mood and depression

• Uses the proven, evidence-based cognitive behaviour therapy approach

• Written by accredited CBT practitioners with wide experience of CBT and working with  young people

• Written in plain English and clearly laid out, with a younger audience in mind, in the established and popular workbook format

• A linked and completely free online support course is located at www.livinglifetothefull.com with additional resources at www.fiveareas.com

Table of Contents:
Understanding why I feel as I do
Why bother changing?
Doing things that make me feel good
Using exercise to boost how I feel
Helpful things we do
Unhelpful things we do
Restarting things we've avoided
Practical problem solving
Noticing and changing extreme and unhelpful thinking
Being assertive
Building relationships
Overcoming sleep problems
Alcohol, drugs and me
Understanding and using anti-depressant medication
Planning for the future
Information for family and friends

About the Author(s):
Dr Nicky Dummett MBBChir BA (Hons) DCH MMedSc MRCPsych is a Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Leeds and an expert and trainer in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. She is past Chair of the Children, Adolsecents and Families branch of the lead body for CBT in the UK, the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies and a core member of the United Kingdom Council of Psychotherapy (UKCP) Psychotherapy with Children Committee.

Dr Christopher Williams MBChB BSc (Hons) MMedSc MD FRCPsych is an expert and trainer in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, and works as a Senior Lecturer in Psychological Medicine at the University of Glasgow. He has been a Governing Board member of the UKCP and is past President of BABCP. He is also Patron of The National Phobics Society and Trustee of the charity Triumph over Phobia.

Readership:
Core: GPs (incl. primary care NHS trusts and book prescription schemes), psychiatrists and psychiatric nurses, counsellors, health visitors. Supplementary: Educational psychologists, teachers, depres