Hand-ME-down Blues: How to Stop Depression from Spreading in Families - Tapa dura

A new family-based approach to understanding and treating depression is based on the latest clinical research and leads readers away from blaming others for their illness and toward focusing on specific skills to better respond to life's challenges.

Michael D. Yapko, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and marriage and family therapist in private practice who lectures worldwide on the subject of depression. He is the author of five previous books and dozens of articles in which he describes active, skill-building interventions as vital to effective treatment of depression, including the authoritative section in the Encyclopedia Britannica's Medical and Health Annual. He is a member of the American Psychological Association and the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Medicine in England and the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis. He lives with his wife near San Diego, California.