Overcoming App now available via iTunes and the Google Play Store. Depression affects thousands of people in the UK and it can be effectively treated with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Written by experienced practitioners, this introductory booklet explains what depression is and how it makes you feel. It will help the reader to understand their symptoms and is ideal as an immediate coping strategy and as a preliminary to fuller therapy. How depression develops and what keeps it going. How to spot and challenge thoughts that maintain your depression Problem solving and balanced thinking.

Author Biography

Dr Hogan is the author of An Introduction to Coping with Anxiety and An Introduction to Coping with Depression, along with Lee Brosan, and An Introduction to Coping with Phobias. She is a clinical psychologist who previously worked at the Primary Care Psychological Treatment Service in Cambridge. She has since moved to Vancouver, Canada, where she continues her work in psychological assessment and the provision of brief psychological treatment for anxiety and depression. Brenda and her colleagues have created a pioneering service in primary care based on self-help approaches to help alleviate a range of common psychological problems.