• Coping With Depression
  • Coping With Depression
  • Behavior
  • Emotions
  • Skills
  • Cognition
  • Unconscious factors
• Level I Behavior
  • Self-observation
  • Look to the future
  • One small step at a time
  • Self-evaluation
  • Self-reinforcement
  • Change your environment
  • Reduce negative thoughts
  • Have more positive thoughts
• Level II Emotions
  • Desensitization and stress inoculation
• Level III Skills
  • Social skills training
  • Assertiveness training
  • Empathy response training
  • Communication
  • Decision-making
• Level IV Cognitive Methods
  • Examples
  • Are optimists born
  • You Too Can Learn To Be Optimistic
  • Attribution retraining
  • Successful self-help projects build confidence
  • Consider failure to be a sign you need to work harder
  • Change
  • Observe the relationship between your thoughts and mood
  • Guard against self-handicapping
  • Guidance
  • Lowering your aspirations
  • Determinism or humanism
  • Religion
  • Look to the future
• Level V Unconscious factors
  • Unconsciously motivated interactions
  • Anger and guilt
  • Shame
  • Our inner child
  • Conclusion - Final words of advice