Please see the Clearinghouse Home Page for further information. This group is designed to help participants change behaviors, cognitions, and maladaptive schemas.
Participants learn to relax more and to engage in more pleasant events.
Members will also be assisted in changing their unrealistic, depressogenic thoughts to more relastic thoughts, which will in turn decrease their level of depression. For true, longer-lasting change, and to decrease the likelihood of recurring depression, maladaptive schemas must be changed. The concept of schemas is introduced to the group, members are assisted in identifying their schemas, and they begin the work to change their schemas. It should be noticed, however, that schema change is a long process and will not be accomplished by the end of the group. Participants fill out the BDI and BHS, keep a daily record of dysfunctional thoughts, and receive information about depression.