HAND-ME-DOWN BLUES
How to Stop Depression from Spreading in Families
Michael D. Yapko
Golden Books, 1999
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: After reading this book, the reader will be able to understand a family systems approach to depression, and how to apply this in assessment and intervention.
This book describes the roles of the family in the development of and recovery from depression. Parents introduce their children t life experiences and reveal their own values, perspectives, and biases. Children learn to interpret life events in the same way their parents do, and their interpretation can be a basis for depression. Depression distorts family relationships, spreading from one person to another. Children can 'inherit' depression less from their parents' genes and more from their parents' attitudes and behaviors.
Consider, for example, how the behavior of an emotionally inexpressive parent can affect a child who is hungry for eye contact, a smile, a hug and a kiss. Part I describes the nature and origins of depression and introduces a family systems perspective. Part 11 deals with the familial transmission of depression. Part III offers methods of intervention. This book is aimed more at the client than the therapist, but is useful to the therapist new to this application of family therapy.
Michael D. Yapko, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and marriage and family therapist in private practice who lectures worldwide on the subject of depression. His books include HYPNOSIS AND THE TREATMENT OF DEPRESSIONS, WHEN LIVING HURTS: DIRECTIVES FOR TREATING DEPRESSION, FREE YOURSELF FROM DEPRESSION, SUGGESTIONS OF ABUSE, and BRIEF THERAPY APPROACHES TO TREATING ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION.
7 CE credits; 226 pages
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