How does doing more of what matters help teenagers with low mood and depression? And what can we all learn from this, particularly at the moment? Prof Shirley Reynolds speaks to Dr Lucy Maddox.

Show Notes

If you want to know more the following resources might be helpful.

Books

Shirley has written two books about depression in teenagers, one for teens and one for parents:

For parents: Teenage Depression:  CBT Guide for Parents https://www.amazon.co.uk/Teenage-Depression-CBT-Guide-Parents/dp/147211454X

For adolescents: Am I Depressed and What Can I Do About It? https://www.amazon.co.uk/Am-Depressed-What-Can-About/dp/1472114531/ref=pd_lpo_14_t_0/260-4076808-4951665?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=1472114531&pd_rd_r=bd1ea151-b4d3-40bc-99bc-583aa3824613&pd_rd_w=xtKq9&pd_rd_wg=CFBxI&pf_rd_p=7b8e3b03-1439-4489-abd4-4a138cf4eca6&pf_rd_r=MFANFKSAD9RE92R6XS65&psc=1&refRID=MFANFKSAD9RE92R6XS65

Websites

BABCP website www.babcp.com

Register of BABCP accredited therapists https://www.cbtregisteruk.com/

These resources about child and adolescent mental health might also be useful

Young Minds https://youngminds.org.uk/

MindEd https://www.minded.org.uk/

Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health https://www.acamh.org/

Other resources

Shirley is running a course with Future Learn from 1st week in June about adolescent depression – aimed to help parents and professionals understand and help young people who struggle with low mood: https://www.mooc-list.com/course/understanding-depression-and-low-mood-young-people-futurelearn

Have you seen the BABCP animation about what CBT is? Only 1 minute long and available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRijYOJp5e0

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We're all living through uncertain times at the moment. What does research from CBT tell us about what tends to help people tolerate uncertainty? Dr Lucy Maddox interviews Professor Mark Freeston about what might help.

Show notes

For more on BABCP our website is www.babcp.com

For Mark's research survey follow this link:

https://www.ncl.ac.uk/who-we-are/coronavirus/research/uncertainty/

A preprint of Mark's research paper on coronavirus and uncertainty is available here:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340653312_Towards_a_model_of_uncertainty_distress_in_the_context_of_Coronavirus_Covid-19

If you feel like you're struggling here are some resources:

https://www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/

https://www.samaritans.org/

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/stress-anxiety-depression/mental-health-helplines/

https://www.nhs.uk/using-the-nhs/nhs-services/mental-health-services/how-to-access-mental-health-services/

The register of BABCP accredited CBT therapists is here: 

https://www.cbtregisteruk.com/

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Episode edited and produced by Lucy Maddox

Music by Gabriel Stebbing

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Note: This episode was recorded before government guidance on restricting travel due to coronavirus.

We all experience ups and downs in mood, but what happens when the highs are so high and the lows are so low that it really interferes with your life? In this episode we hear from Cate Catmore and Professor Steven Jones about CBT for bipolar disorder.

Show notes

For more resources check out these links below.

Books

Coping with bipolar disorder by Steve Jones, Peter Haywood and Dominic Lam

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Coping-Bipolar-Disorder-CBT-Informed-Depression-ebook/dp/B07ZWQ877T/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=coping+with+bipolar+disorder&qid=1585237730&s=digital-text&sr=1-1

Overcoming Mood Swings by Jan Scott

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B003GUBILQ/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

Online resources

NICE guidelines on bipolar are summarised here

https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg185

Cate spoke about mindfulness. You can hear more about mindfulness-based cognitive therapies here

https://letstalkaboutcbt.libsyn.com/lets-talk-about-cbt-mindfulness-based-therapies

This BPS report is called Understanding Bipolar Disorder

https://shop.bps.org.uk/understanding-bipolar-disorder.html

Recovery toolkit for friends and relatives of someone with bipolar disorder based on research at Lancaster University

https://reacttoolkit.uk/

Guardian article on CBT for bipolar disorder by Lucy from a few years ago

https://www.theguardian.com/science/sifting-the-evidence/2016/feb/08/nice-critique-a-call-for-more-research-not-an-excuse-for-less-treatment-psychotherapy-cbt

If you’d like to read more academic journal articles this range of papers about bipolar disorder has been made free until 30th April 2020 from the BABCP journals 

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioural-and-cognitive-psychotherapy/bipolar-articles-from-bcp-and-tcbt

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This episode was produced by Lucy Maddox.

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