Vulnerability to depression
Subtitle: from cognitive neuroscience to prevention and treatment
By: Rick E. Ingram, Ruth Ann Atchley, and Zindel V. Segal
Contributors: Atchley, Ruth Ann; Segal, Zindel V., 1956-
Publisher: Guilford Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781609182557
Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work; Mental Depression; Cognitive styles; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / Depression; PSYCHOLOGY / Clinical Psychology; Treatment; MEDICAL / Psychiatry / Psychopharmacology; Risk factors; Emotions and cognition
Description: "Providing a cutting-edge examination of the mechanisms underlying depression, this volume integrates important areas of research that have largely remained separate. The authors explore both the cognitive and neurological processes that make some people more vulnerable than others to developing depression and experiencing recurrent episodes. They also probe how these processes interact--how negative life experiences, maladaptive belief systems, and patterns of thinking may actually affect neural circuitry, and vice versa. Explaining sophisticated theory and research in an accessible style, the book highlights the implications for improving clinical practices and patient outcomes"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:  1. Depression: An Overview of a Public Health Problem 2. Why Vulnerability? 3. Cognitive-Clinical Science and Cognitive Neuroscience Approaches to Understanding Behavior 4. Methodological Strategies and Issues in the Study of Vulnerability to Depression 5. Theory and Data on Cognitive Vulnerability 6. Cognitive Neuroscience Data on Vulnerability 7. Cognitive and Cognitive Neuroscience Vulnerability to Depression 8. Depression Vulnerability and Clinical Therapeutics 9. Prevention Efforts Designed to Address Factors Underlying Depression Risk 10. The Vulnerable Person Revisited .