 Your
Depression Map: Find the source of your depression and chart your own
recovery
Now available in stores. There are dozens of
recommended strategies for dealing with depression. Which should you try? The
answer depends, to a great extent, on the type of depression you have and the
risk factors that seem to have contributed. Your Depression Map leads
you through an exploration of your own experience of depression, then uses the
information gained to help you structure a personalized treatment approach.
Published October 2002 by New Harbinger Publications, this large-format
workbook includes a number of forms and measures. This part of the site offers
an introduction to the book and downloadable versions of many of the forms and
exercises. Purchase Information
 The
Assertiveness Workbook: How to express your ideas and stand up for yourself at
work and in relationships
Published in 2000 by New
Harbinger Publications, this large-format workbook considers two primary
questions: "What holds us back from being assertive?" and "What are the
specific skills required for effective assertive communication?" This section
of the site provides an excerpt from the book, the text of a review, and
downloadable versions of several of the forms and measures included in the
book. Purchase Information
 The Self Care Depression Program
Imagine that your family physician has just diagnosed you as
having depression, but the insurance reimbursement scheme sharply limits the
amount of time he or she can spend talking to you about it. Imagine further
that a referral to a mental health specialist will take weeks or months. This
is the situation in jurisdictions across North America. In response, Dr. Dan
Bilsker and myself wrote a brief guide to depression designed to be handed out
in the physician's office as part of an effort to provide more information to
patients. The guide is now available as a downloadable pdf file from several
locations on the Internet - including this one.This file requires Adobe Acrobat
reader. If you need to download the reader, click
here.
Click here
for Q and A regarding Your Depression Map and The Assertiveness
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Changeways Treatment Manuals
Changeways Clinic provides professional training programs in
evidence-based mental health. Changeways' treatment manuals are offered for
sale from its website, www.changeways.com. Included are:
- The Changeways Core Program. The group
treatment program for depression being offered at outpatient mental health
clinics across Canada as well as in Australia, China, and England. Both an
86-page Client Manual and a 184-page Clinician's Guide are available. The
client manual is available in English and Chinese.
- Being There: The Changeways Assertiveness Program. The
assertiveness training group program that inspired The Assertiveness Workbook.
The 128-page Client Manual and the 251-page Clinician's Guide are both
available.
- The Changeways Relaxation Skills Program. When the Core
Program was originally evaluated, we discovered that none of our clients were
benefiting from the relaxation skills module. Our suspicion was that we just
weren't spending enough time on the training, so we developed a six-session
group protocol focussed exclusively on relaxation skills. The 185-page
Clinician's Manual includes 45 pages of information handouts for clients --
which are also available in Chinese. In addition, we have progressive muscle
relaxation and passive relaxation audiotapes available in English, Spanish,
Cantonese, and Mandarin.
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