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Talking to Depression: Simple Ways to Connect When Someone in Your Lifeis Depres: Simple Ways to Connect When Someone in Your Life Is Depressed Paperback - 2004

by Claudia J. Strauss; Foreword by Martha Manning

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This practical, compassionate guide helps readers understand exactly what their loved one struggling with depression is going through, and why certain approaches help and others have the potential to do damage.

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When someone suffers from depression, friends and family members naturally want to help—but too often their good intentions come out all wrong. This practical, compassionate guide helps readers understand exactly what their loved one is going through, and why certain approaches help and others have the potential to do damage. Talking to Depression offers specific advice on what to do and what not to do—and what to say and what not to say—to avoid frustration and give the kind of caring, effective support that will make a difference.

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When someone suffers from depression, friends and family members naturally want to help--but too often their good intentions come out all wrong. This practical, compassionate guide helps readers understand exactly what their loved one is going through, and why certain approaches help and others have the potential to do damage. Talking to Depression offers specific advice on what to do and what not to do--and what to say and what not to say--to avoid frustration and give the kind of caring, effective support that will make a difference.

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Some of you may have been struggling for a while on how to give support, but some of you may be entering unfamiliar territory.

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  • Title Talking to Depression: Simple Ways to Connect When Someone in Your Lifeis Depres: Simple Ways to Connect When Someone in Your Life Is Depressed
  • Author Claudia J. Strauss; Foreword by Martha Manning
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Softcover Ed
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Berkley Books, U. S. A.
  • Publication date January 6, 2004
  • Features Bibliography
  • ISBN 9780451209863 / 0451209869
  • Weight 0.49 lbs (0.22 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.76 x 5.97 x 0.6 in (19.71 x 15.16 x 1.52 cm)
  • Age range 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Topical: Family
  • Category Psychology
  • Library of Congress subjects Communication, Depression, Mental
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2003016852
  • Dewey Decimal Code 616.852

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Citations

  • Library Journal, 12/01/2003, Page 145
  • Publishers Weekly, 12/15/2003, Page 64

About the author

Claudia J. Strauss is an award-winning communication consultant and educator. An adjunct professor of English at Albright College in Reading, Pennsylvania, she runs a business in strategic communication and coaches adults with ADD and other learning disabilities.

Martha Manning is a clinical psychologist and the author of The Common Thread: Mothers, Daughters, and the Power of Empathy; Undercurrents: A Life Beneath the Surface; Chasing Grace: Reflections of a Catholic Girl, Grown Up; and All Seasons Pass: Grieving Miscarriage. She has been featured on Dateline, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, 60 Minutes II, and the Emmy Award-nominated HBO documentary Dead Blue: Surviving Depression.

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