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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.



A List of Downloadable and Reproducible Documents for Therapists
Therapy can be a paper-intensive endeavour. Many therapists spend half their careers developing information handouts and forms for their clients, feeling frustrated that they're reinventing the wheel.

Eventually, this page will provide documents for free download in printer-friendly pdf format. Professional therapists are free to use them in their own practices. We hope to have these documents posted by summer 2004.

One request: Please leave the acknowledgement on the form.



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