Counselling: Depression Counselling Diploma
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Overview
This course will offer you the opportunity to learn about mental health and gain a deeper understanding of mental disorders. Learn how you can help clients who suffer from major depressive episodes and what is happening within the brain at these times. Elmira will also take you through the various treatment options available and the most suitable approach to take.
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Course Highlights
- Includes 52 lectures and over 2 hours of video content.
- Discover what approaches in counselling are best suited to treatment of depression.
- Learn about the link between neurotransmitters such as serotonin, dopamine and depression.
- Learn how to help clients who suffer from major depressive episodes and sleeping problems.
Course Overview
This course is suitable for anyone passionate about mental health and helping others. If you are interested in psychology or training as a psychologist, this course will offer you all the information to understand mental health problems and the best ways to manage them.
Instructor Bio
Elmira Strange is a Research Psychologist (MPhil), Cognitive Behavioural Therapist (Dip), and Certified Life Coach (Dip). She has previously worked as a Senior Researcher and Psychology Lecturer where she could inform and help others. Within this course, she combines her passion for Psychology with her extensive knowledge to enlighten students on the importance of mental health.
Course Curriculum
Introduction
- About the Course
- Say hi to your fellow students and tell them why you're taking the course!
- Share Your New Course with Family and Friends!
- About the Teacher
- Introduction to Depression
What Causes Depression?
- Melancholy and the history of counselling
- Signs of Depression
- Depression and the Brain
- Depression and the Neurons
- Stress
- Handout - Depression and Stress
- Environmental and Health Factors
- Depression and Sleep Disorders
- Handout - Sleep Disorders
- Somatics Symptoms
- Risk Factors
- Module 1 - Assessment Questions
Different Types of Depression
- Classifying Depression & Different Classification Methods
- Cyclothymia
- Handout - Cyclothymia
- Depression and Creative Minds
- Dysthymia, Pre-menstrual Dysphoric Disorder, Atypical Depression
- Bi-polar/ Manic Depression
- Antenatal & Postpartum Depression
- Bereavement and Grief
- Handout - Bereavement and Grief
- Dysthymia in Children and Adolescents
- Depression & the Elderly.
- Psychosocial & Health Factors in the Elderly
- Module 2 - Questions
Different Types of Medicine
- Handout - Antidepressant Medications
- Neurogenesis...
- Monoamine oxidase inhibitors
- Serotonin syndrome
- Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)
- Tyramine
- Medication statistics and doctors in the UK & USA
- Module 3 assessment questions
Complementary Alternative Therapies
- Lifestyle management, Diet, Exercise, Meditation
- St John's Wort (hypericum perforatum)
- Omega 3 fatty acids
- Handout - Omega 3 Fatty Acids
- Tai chi, qigong
- Yoga
- Acupuncture
- Art Therapy & Music Therapy
- Module 4 assessment questions
Counselling Approaches to Depression
- Counselling Approaches to Depression
- Family of Couples Therapy
- Stepped Care Model
- Psychodynamic/ Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy
- Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy (REBT)
- Clinical Hypnotherapy & Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
- Hypnotherapy and PTSD
- Gestalt Therapy
- The Therapeutic Relationship
- Knowledge and Qualities Necessary to a Counsellor
- Module 5 Assessment Questions
- Thanks and GoodBye!
Course Quiz
- Course Quiz
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Who is this course for?
This course is suitable for anyone passionate about mental health and helping those suffering from mental health issues.
Requirements
This course has no prerequisites
Career path
Establish a Counselling Career
Certificates
Certificate of completion
Digital certificate - Included
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