Breaking the Depression Code

Breaking the depression code involves identifying the necessary steps to nourish the anti-depression brain. This treatment model has been inspired by some of the most current research on neuroscience and depression as well as mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT), created by Zindel Segal; Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), created by Jon Kabat-Zinn; Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), created by Steven Hayes; and research by Brene Brown and others.

In this web conference, you’ll learn how to nurture the brain's natural antidepressants, provide individuals relief from symptoms of depression, improve emotional resilience, and provide guidance on how people can protect themselves from depression. Conference participants will gain the following skills, drawn from compassion-based cognitive therapy (CBCT):

• Utilize mindfulness to lay a foundation for the antidepressant brain.
• Discuss how self-compassion can be used as an antidepressant technique.
• Apply meaning, compassion, and purpose to develop a deeper understanding of resiliency and well-being.
• Recognize how making happiness a habit can reclaim play in your life and how play can be mastered to bring about natural antidepressants.

This web conference is intermediate instructional level and designed to help clinicians:

1. Describe what mindfulness is and how it helps interrupt the depressive cycle;
2. List three practical, formal ways to integrate mindfulness-based theory and practice when working with clients;
3. List three current neuroscientific studies showing the relationship between mindfulness and depression;
4. List and practice key self-compassion practices to use for self-care and to practice with clients in creating healing and forgiveness around pain.

If you have any questions or concerns about this web conference or would like more information, please contact us here.

Event Reviews from Members

Elisha Goldstein is incredibly knowledgeable, well read, and at ease presenting. - Risa Giordano, LCSW

Continuing Education (CE) Information

Two CE credits will be provided by GoodTherapy.org for attending this web conference in its entirety.

GoodTherapy.org is also an Approved Education Provider by NAADAC, The Association for Addiction Professionals (provider #135463). Of the eight counselor skill groups ascribed to by NAADAC, this course is classified within counseling services.

GoodTherapy.org is an NBCC-Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEPTM) and may offer NBCC-approved clock hours for events that meet NBCC requirements.

GoodTherapy.org is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. GoodTherapy.org maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

GoodTherapy.org, SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #0395.

To receive CE credit hours for an archived event, you will need to complete a survey as well as a 12 or 15-question exam, verifying that you listened to or watched the event in its entirety. Archived CE events generally are considered "homestudy" by licensing boards.

Registration Information

Premium and Pro Membership with GoodTherapy includes access to this web conference at no additional cost, as well as other member benefits such as a profile listing in GoodTherapy's Therapist Directory. Not yet a member? Sign up for a Premium or Pro Membership, here.

Just want CE credits? Sign up for a monthly or annual CE Subscription with GoodTherapy to get unlimited access to our CE Program, including this event, other live CE web conferences, and hundreds of hours of homestudy courses.

Mental health professionals who are not members can attend this live web conference for $30.95 or access the homestudy recording for $15.50. Sign up here to purchase this CE course and earn a CE certificate.

If the event is canceled by GoodTherapy, registrants who purchased the event will be notified and the charge for the event will be refunded

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Highlights

Knowing the way you think and where you place your energy allows you to step away from the various stories and mind traps that don't serve you and enter the space of awareness where you can consider alternatives for creating a more flexible, healthier mind. So what we don't have with a depressed mind is flexibility; it's more rigid or chaotic. And what we're trying to do is create a more open, flexible, healthier type of reactivity. - Elisha Goldstein, PhD