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This important book explores strategies to enable clergy and lay persons to identify and help individuals suffering from depression. It contains many techniques that can be used in managing depression, including coping devices, treatments, and interventions which actually help depressed persons to improve their mental health. Dealing With Depression describes types of depression and related symptoms to help clergy develop a more complete understanding of the disorder. They will learn to recognize the symptoms of depression and be better able to help individuals who suffer from it. This useful guide includes a step-by-step approach to depression intervention and proven techniques readers can use to enable people to cope more successfully with depression. This important book has also been translated into a Chinese version. Dealing With Depression brings together expert psychologists who explore five modalities for conceptualizing and managing depression, which deflates for clergy the often intimidating quality of the disorder. These experts discuss in practical and understandable ways the helping techniques they use and explain their understanding of depression and their methods of treatment. A medical-religious case conference with these experts shows how clergy and laity can help ease depression and an extensive bibliography is included to facilitate further reference. Dealing With Depression puts this common disorder back into the human life situation where it can be seen as just another temporary disturbance to which human beings are vulnerable, but which need not significantly distort their lives, relationships, spiritual development, or prosperity of body, mind, and soul.

Dr. Mathews: Through the training program in Clinical Pastoral Education here in the hospital, the authors have had at least one Medical-Religious Case Conference a week for last eight or nine years. Usually only a few students, along with those in helping professions who are closely associated with patients, are present. In the presentation below, Dr. Dayringer explains the case of one of his current counselees. Dr. Dayringer: The counselee, whom people will call Pam. Pam, is a pseudonym for this counselee whose identity is carefully disguised. Her religious denomination is Baptist. She had most of the clinical symptoms of depression and described her symptoms in religious concepts. Her responses to the Minnesota Multiphase Personality Inventory confirmed him clinical impression. He saw her 16 times individually and then transferred her to my counseling group. Pam has attended three of six group sessions. She was feeling well enough that appointments fourteen through sixteen were two to three weeks apart.

Dr. Mathews: Through the training program in Clinical Pastoral Education here in the hospital, we have had at least one Medical-Religious Case Conference a week for the last eight or nine years. I have participated in several of these conferences myself. Usually only a few students, along with those in the helping professions who are closely associated with patients, are present. Because of this, we are particularly pleased to be able to share one of these conferences with a larger public now. In the presentation below, Dr. Dayringer explains the case of one of his current counselees. This young woman is interviewed by Dr. Madden, then by consultants Dr. Trotter, Dr. Jacobs, and Byron Eicher.