The strengths and weaknesses of cognitive behavioural approaches to treating depression and their potential for wider utilization by mental health nurses.

摘要: Depression is widely acknowledged to be the major factor implicated with suicide, an enormous financial cost on economies of western countries and a source intense despair for millions people around world. A steady stream articles are published both in popular, generic specialist nursing journals that illustrate potential cognitive behavioural therapies treatment depression. Should these restricted use by registered therapists or do techniques have wider application? The marketing approaches nurses prompted review purported strengths weaknesses comparison other possible alternatives. Many mental health community settings already clients. Here it will argued several recognized lend themselves incorporation nurse-patient interactions varied in-patient who spend protracted periods time depressed patients but lack formal therapist qualifications not consider counsellors.