In recent years, treatment methods such as "psychological intervention" have gradually become popular, and more and more treatment options for disease treatment have also begun to tend to this.
Depression is a comprehensive mental illness that combines genetic, social, psychological and other causes.
Patients usually experience long-lasting emotional pessimism, slow reaction, lazy and passive, memory loss, and even severe cases such as self-harm and suicide.
After having a simple understanding of depression, let’s talk about the issue of “single psychological intervention to treat depression” .
As of now, the most effective psychological treatment methods for depression mainly include: cognitive therapy, behavioral therapy and interpersonal psychological therapy.
Cognitive treatment
Cognitive behavioral treatment mainly reduces depression symptoms by changing and adjusting the patient's incorrect cognition of the self and the surrounding environment.
In this treatment method, patients need to learn to identify the impact of unreasonable thinking on emotions, strengthen their own control over behavior and perception of happy emotions.
Then, through a series of treatment methods such as planned activity arrangements and interpersonal skills training, the patient's depression state is solved.
Allen Temkin Baker, founder of cognitive therapy, believes that maladaptive behaviors and emotions are all derived from maladaptive cognition.
At the same time, according to a large number of clinical data, cognitive treatment can effectively alleviate the symptoms of patients with acute depression, and for patients in the consolidation and maintenance periods, it also has a good effect of preventing and fewer recurrence of symptoms.
behavioral therapy
behavioral therapy is a type of psychological therapy that establishes new conditioned reflex behaviors through repeated training of individuals to achieve the corrective response to bad behaviors.
The theory believes that learning is obtained through the imitation process. That is, one can learn another person's behavioral response through observation to learn some special way of reaction.
American psychologist Bandura believes that a large number of people's behaviors are learned through imitation, and bad behaviors of people are often formed through this model.
For example: a child may become aggressive in the future when he sees people around him committing aggressive behavior.
Interpersonal Psychological Treatment
Interpersonal Psychological Treatment mainly achieves the purpose of alleviating the symptoms of depression by improving the patient's social adaptability and dealing with the interpersonal problems of depressed patients .
It should be noted here that compared with drug treatment, interpersonal psychological treatment can maintain the patient's remission period better and longer.
The so-called remission period means that the social function of a patient with depression has returned to the pre-illness level.
Of course, many patients also ask, "Since psychological intervention has a certain effect on alleviating depression to some extent, at which stage is the best effect of intervention psychological intervention?"
1. It is necessary to consider the severity of the disease
As mentioned earlier, psychological intervention does have a certain curative effect for patients with mild and moderate depression, but for patients with severe depression, psychological intervention can only be treated as auxiliary treatment.
What needs to be paid more attention to is that for patients with severe depression who have negative impulses, psychological intervention should never be carried out alone.
2. It is necessary to consider the patient's own situation
If the patient belongs to a special group, such as: pregnant women, drug contraindications, etc.
3. It is necessary to consider the professionalism of the therapist
Whether the therapist can provide professional psychological treatment and whether it meets the indications of patients with depression. Compared with drug treatment, psychological intervention does harm the patients less.
But even so, the patient and the patient's family must not blindly affirm it, "Psychological intervention can definitely cure your depression."
So, before pre-selecting psychological treatment, you must follow the doctor's advice and choose a treatment method that is suitable for the patient's condition.
