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Companion book to the award winning Overcoming teenage low mood and depression, Overcoming Postnatal Depression uses the trusted Five Areas model of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) to helping people experiencing postnatal depression to help themselves change how they feel. The Five Areas model communicates life skills and helps the reader make key interventions changes in using a clear, pragmatic and accessible style, by examining five important aspects of our lives:

- Life situation, people and events around us
- Altered thinking
- Altered feelings or moods
- Altered physical symptoms or sensations
- Altered behaviour or activity levels

By bringing together specialists in postnatal depression and with the use of self-help resources, the course  addresses all the common challenges faced by women during times of low mood after having a baby. It provides access to the proven CBT approach. helping the reader make positive changes in their life in a planned and achievable way. A final workbook is aimed at friends and relatives and describes how they can offer support.

The workbooks also provide an invaluable resource for counsellors, general practitioners, nursing staff, health visitors, midwives, occupational therapists, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, self-help groups and other voluntary sector organisations.

A linked and completely free online support course is located at www.livinglifetothefull.com with additional written, DVD and audio resources at www.fiveareas.com.

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About the authors:
Dr Chris Williams is an expert and trainer in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, and works as a Senior Lecturer in the section of Psychological Medicine at the University of Glasgow. He has been a Governing Board member of the UKCP and is a Past President of
BABCP (www.babcp.com). He is also a Patron of the National Phobics Society and Trustee of the charity Triumph over Phobia.

Dr Roch Cantwell is Consultant Perinatal Psychiatrist at the Perinatal Mental Health Service, Department of Psychiatry, at the Southern General Hospital, in Glasgow, UK. He is Honorary Secretary of the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Perinatal Section and Psychiatric Assessor to the Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Health in Scotland.

Ms Karen Robertson is Associate Director of Nursing in Mental Health and Learning Disability in NHS Lanarkshire, and is formally Nurse Consultant in Perinatal Mental Health at the Perinatal Mental Health service, Southern General Hospital, Glasgow, UK. She has a postgraduate diploma in cognitive behaviour therapy and is a member of the BABCP.

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