Beating Depression: The Journey to Hope

by Maga Jackson-Triche, Kenneth Wells, Katherine Minnium

Offers new hope to the more than 17 million Americans who suffer from depression Written by nationally recognized experts in the field, Beating Depression arms sufferers and their families with the knowledge and tools they need to recognize depression and make informed choices about its treatment and management. The authors explore the latest findings on the causes of depression and the treatments currently available, including medications and psychotherapeutic approaches. Readers get checklists, quizzes, and other powerful self-assessment tools to help determine if they are actually suffering from depression and to what clinical degree. And they get expert guidance on how to find help and work with physicians and mental health professionals to develop a treatment plan and to cope with problems that can arise during treatment.

256 pages, Paperback

First published April 29, 2002

Reviews

[Isiah O’Merreighn · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is a very opaque and general review of depression, diagnosis, and treatment options. It heavily advises medical intervention, counseling, and/or advanced therapeutic remedies. The advice is very basic; anyone in particular could provide it if you asked the pertinent questions.

In my tenured experience of counseling, both religious and practical, depression is most often the reaction to phenomenological events and life experiences that damage the person's perceptions of themselves. If they have a terrible life, the first course should perhaps be to attempt to improve it. Medical intervention may be required if they have a wonderful life with no reason to be downtrodden. In my opinion, we should exercise more caution towards our approach to medication.

I recommend this book for those with little knowledge of psychology who need basic information to help them on their way.

[Adrienna · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book focused heavily on the clinical resolutions or solutions than depression...but guess this is how to beat it. These methods were definitely mentioned and meds. It also touched on other things like post-partum, mental illness, and other things that can lead to depression or a cause of it.

It was an okay read. I skimmed through a majority of it. The symptoms can also be other issues that a person is suffering such as anxiety, stress, etc.

Leisure read 2018