Human Givens Online Courses

Despite being on the increase, depression is actually one of the easiest disorders to treat successfully and quickly – once you know how.

This popular online course with psychologist Joe Griffin, a leading expert in the field, shatters the many myths that still surround this distressing condition and how it should be treated. It gives you the new insights, information and research findings that have been quietly revolutionising the effective treatment of depression for well over a decade.

Literally thousands of people in the UK and Ireland have already been helped to recover from depression – often remarkably quickly – as a result of the new information taught on this course.

Among other things, you will discover: what really causes depression; why depressed people wake up tired and unmotivated; the link between worrying, dreaming and depression; why some forms of psychotherapy can actually be harmful when treating depression; why the appropriate type of psychotherapy has a dramatically lower rate of relapse than antidepressants and is also the most effective treatment – even with severe cases and postnatal depression.

For the sake of the millions of people affected by depression around the world (including rising numbers of children, young people and the elderly), this information needs to be much more widely known.

It doesn't just transform lives – it saves them...

What you will learn

• Essential new information about why people become depressed
• A better understanding of what depression really is, why it's on the increase and how to diagnose it
• Clear explanations of symptoms such as waking up tired and unmotivated
• Practical help to quickly break patterns of depression, move people on and prevent relapse
• New insights into the dissociative elements of depressive lifestyles
• An important understanding of why some forms of psychotherapy can make depression worse
• Techniques for tackling rigid thinking and negative expectancy
• Why some people are more vulnerable to depression than others
• How to make a positive difference straight away
• Ways to talk to suicidal people – this training saves lives
• The myths that have grown up around depression
• How to manage bi-polar depression psychologically
• The links between emotional arousal, REM sleep, dreaming and depression
• How this discovery dramatically improves our ability to help people get out of depression quickly
• The most effective strategies for successfully treating depression
• The causes of postnatal depression and how best to treat it
• How to help with excessive grief
• Lots of case history examples which illustrate how these new insights combined with the most effective brief therapy techniques can help people recover as quickly as possible
• Ways to 'inoculate' yourself against depression
• CPD certificate, that also counts towards the Human Givens Diploma

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Course content

• Why depression is still on the increase, despite huge amounts being spent on improving mental health
• Why the disease model of depression is not appropriate, particularly for effective treatment
• How to quickly spot the symptoms of depression
• The criteria for a major depressive episode and the key questions to ask
• What causes depression – cultural, family and individual influences – and why it now seems an inevitable part of modern life
• The use of anti-depressant drugs and their dangerous side effects
• The research that shows why depression is not a biological illness and why an exclusively biological approach to diagnosis and treatment is mostly anti-therapeutic
• Suicide – risk factors and management
• The human givens – our foundation for mental health and wellbeing
• The newly discovered links between emotional arousal, REM sleep, dreaming and depression
• Why women suffer more depression than men and, statistically, take twice as long to recover
• Why more depressed men kill themselves than women
• Why some common psychotherapeutic strategies make matters worse for depressed people
• How depression is learned
• Why depression appears in many different forms
• The newly discovered links between emotional arousal, REM sleep, dreaming and depression – we take a look at the cycle of depression
• The connection between anger, guilt and depression
• Understanding how depression is an emotion that invades all dimensions of a person's life including physiology, thought patterns, relationships, attitude to work and emotional behaviour
• Depression as a symptomatic trance that can be interrupted
• The importance of making a real difference for the person straight away
• Three brief therapy techniques that reliably interrupt the ongoing pattern of a depressed person's experience
• How to calm anxiety quickly, promoting optimism by challenging negative self-suggestions and dissolving negative trance states
• The effects of emotional arousal
• Identifying missing skills
• Helping people to externalise their problems and be more flexible
• The importance of 'sequencing'
• Stimulating positive new patterns through experience
• Depression, dying and death
• Using the techniques covered with bipolar depression and postnatal depression
• Factors that lead to postnatal depression and how we can effectively treat it
• Managing bipolar disorder by psychological means
• Summary of what we've learnt
• And much more...

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Is this course for me?

• Anyone wishing to gain a better understanding of the causes and symptoms of depression, and why some people are more vulnerable than others
• All health and welfare professionals ‒ if you have to deal with, treat or care for depressed people, the new insights on this course will make your work easier and more effective
• Anyone concerned about the side effects of drug treatments who would like to know about the recent discoveries and easy-to-learn psychotherapeutic techniques that combined can lift depression quickly

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Course format

'How to break the cycle of depression' is based on our one-day seminar of the same name. This online course is split into 4 modules, each of which are broken down further into different sections containing filmed lectures given in English by the tutor, Joe Griffin.

Each film clip is followed by a short series of multiple choice questions. These are designed to help you think about and absorb the course content and to check that you have understood the main points of that section before proceeding to the next.

There are also course notes for you to download, plus additional reading information and helpful links.

You can take as long as you like to work your way through the course and can view it as many times as you like.

Once you have completed the course, you will receive a CPD certificate, which counts towards the Human Givens Diploma.

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Diploma-linked Certificate

When you successfully complete the course, you will be awarded a CPD Certificate by HG College and The Human Givens Institute (equivalent to 6 hours of continuing professional development).

'How to break the cycle of depression' is also a required module of Part 1 of the Human Givens Diploma, so by successfully completing this online course you will also have completed a part of this highly respected qualification.

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