Parent’s view: Treatment
In this video you’ll hear from Emma’s mum, Lucy, about her experience with the effects of treatment on Emma. Please note: For the purposes of the course, these characters are …
Course: Understanding Depression and Low Mood in Young People
Dealing with ‘stuck’ thoughts
Sometime thoughts are really hard to catch and pin down – they go around and around and get stuck. Sometimes this is because we try to work out a problem …
Finding alternative thoughts
When we check and challenge an automatic thought what then? It’s possible that this process quickly highlights some thoughts that are easy to challenge and amend. Often it’s useful to …
Catch and challenge negative thoughts
In this video, watch a clinician talk to Emma’s mum about how she can help her daughter catch and challenge her ‘negative thoughts’. Having a thought doesn’t mean that it’s …
Thought catching
Catching thoughts is the first and essential stage of putting thoughts on trial. Because so many of our thoughts are automatic we can’t know if we’re making thinking mistakes. To …
Checking thoughts
When thoughts are automatic we don’t have the chance to check them out. Once we capture our thoughts we can give them a bit more attention. Here our aim is …
Changing Your Thoughts
One of the most difficult things about changing your thoughts, or cognitions, is that our thoughts are often automatic. This means that we don’t necessarily notice our thoughts, they‘re not …
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Understanding Depression and Low Mood in Young People