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Exploring depression

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About Course

This advanced level course, Exploring depression, serves as an introduction to masters level study in neurosciences and mental health. Focusing on depression, you will consider key issues concerning diagnosis, causes and interventions. You will also begin to explore theoretical models, biological and psychological explanations, and look at a range of pharmacological and psychological therapies for depression.

 

What Will You Learn?

  • After studying this course, you should be able to:
  • understand depression from biopsychosocial perspectives
  • discuss contemporary issues in mental health science related to depression
  • recognise different lines of evidence and appreciate the uncertainty, ambiguity and limits of current knowledge in the study of mental health science.

Course Content

The experience of depression

  • The experience of depression
  • Activity 1 The experience of depression
    29:21
  • Understanding depression − key issues
    11:03
  • BBC World Service ‘Discovery’ − Depression part 2
    14:46

Exploring depression

Theoretical models and psychological explanations of depression

Biological explanations for depression

Treatments for depression

Conclusion

References

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