Prevent Depression in Teens With Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
clipped from health.usnews.comIn cognitive therapy, a person learns to:
- Distinguish between thoughts and feelings.
- Become aware of how thoughts can influence feelings in ways that sometimes are not helpful.
- Learn about thoughts that seem to occur automatically and how they can affect emotions.
- Evaluate critically whether these "automatic" thoughts and assumptions are accurate or perhaps biased.
- Develop the skills to notice, interrupt, and correct these biased thoughts.
Cognitive behavioral therapycan prevent teenagers from becoming clinically depressed, even if their parents are depressed, too. That’s great news, because serious depression afflicts 2 million teenagers each year and puts them at greater risk of suicide and depression throughout life.
This latest news, in a depression study just out in the Journal of the American Medical Association, is yet another bit of evidence that cognitive behavioral therapy is a valid treatment for depression.
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