MC0003 Beyond Pills: Effective Psychotherapy With Depressive Clients On-Demand

This 4-session Streaming-Video Webcast combines exploration, intensive practical training, and a clinical video demonstration. You’ll be able to incorporate new tools and methods into your practice right away. You’ll learn:

What psychotherapy can do that medications can't

How to use hypnosis and mindfulness to enhance treatment

When family interventions help depression and when they don't

The roles genetics and socialization play in depression

A step-by-step approach to structuring the experiential learning opportunities that assist depressed clients in skill-building

• Why medicalizing depression has made a bad problem worse
• 9 reasons to be cautious about antidepressant medications
• What psychotherapy can do that medication can't
• Hypnosis, mindfulness, homework as part of experiential treatment
• Empowerment as a theme and a practical framework

• Identifying targets of treatment while building therapeutic momentum
• Reframing a childhood history of violent abuse
• Expanding future-oriented possibilities through applied hypnosis
• Building and contextualizing self-empowering resources

• Relationships as risk factors -- or buffers
• Genetics and socialization as key therapeutic variables
• The social ecology of the problem: depression is contagious
• Thinking strategically, socially, and hypnotically about depression

• Consolidate your learnin
• Incorporate the knowledge from this course into your practice
• Explore how to apply principles learned in your practice

"Michael knows his subject and isn't afraid to be controversial. Bravo."

"Yapko is a true expert in this area."

"I left with a lot of practical skills that will help me work more effectively in my practice."

"I appreciate how Yapko wove together theoretical information with solid clinical applications."

"I really enjoyed how Michael broke down the
concrete steps of therapy."

• The Art and Science of Clinical Hypnosis: Why It Enhances Treatment So Well
• Hypnosis in Treating Symptoms and Risk Factors of Major Depression
• Hypnotic Intervention for Ambiguity as a Depressive Risk Factor
  

Michael Yapko, Ph.D., is an internationally recognized expert, known for his work in the strategic treatment of depression. His latest book is Depression Is Contagious. Others include Hypnosis and Treating Depression and Hand-Me-Down Blues: Overcoming Depression in Families.

Yes! I Want To Learn With Michael Yapko!