Coping With Depression

Offering Well-informed Support to People Experiencing Depression

What you'll learn
More fully understand the causes and consequences of depression
Appreciate the need for sensitivity in helping people cope with depression
Explore ways of supporting people experiencing depression
Be more confident in supporting people experiencing depression
Requirements
All that you need is a desire to learn more about depression and how to tackle it.
Description
Depression can range from minor to severe and highly debilitating. It can be short term or long term, periodic or persistent. While it is clearly a major challenge for the individuals concerned, it also presents significant challenges to family, friends, colleagues and employers. This course provides a basic foundation of understanding of depression to help anyone affected by it – directly or indirectly – to be better equipped to rise to the challenges involved.Depression is a very complex matter, but unfortunately it is commonly prone to considerable oversimplification – for example, seen as simply sadness or regarded as something that just needs the individual to heed the call to ‘pull yourself together’. The causes and consequences of depression are quite varied and need to be considered carefully to avoid potentially making a bad situation worse.With today’s well-justified emphasis on health and wellbeing, it is essential that issues relating to depression are not left out of the picture. This course will help equip you to address any concerns relating to depression and its consequences.Simply hoping that depression will just go away of its own accord is a risky business and can prove very costly in both human and financial terms. A much better understanding of depression is needed.

Overview

Section 1: Coping with Depression

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 Module Companion E-Workbook

Lecture 3 Part 1 - What is depression?

Lecture 4 Part 2 - Causes of depression

Lecture 5 Part 3 - Effects of depression

Lecture 6 Part 4 - Helping others and self-help

Lecture 7 Conclusion

Managers and HR professionals across all sectors, plus anyone wishing to support others experiencing depression. People who struggle with depression themselves may also find value in this course.