What Causes Clinical Depression?
Learn About the Many Risk Factors for Common Mood Problems - And Why "Biochemical Imbalance" Isn't One of Them
What You'll Learn in This Course
Master key concepts and practical skills through structured learning modules. By completing this curriculum, you'll gain valuable expertise applicable to real-world scenarios.
Learning Outcome 1
Understand the valley-bottom idea of depression: That there are many paths in, and knowing these paths may help in finding one's path out again.
Learning Outcome 2
Learn about the nine-node Depression Map model for understanding risk factors and their relationships.
Learning Outcome 3
Learn the distinction between controllable and uncontrollable risk factors.
Learning Outcome 4
Distinguish between vulnerability factors, triggers, and maintaining factors, and how these can relate to one another.
Learning Outcome 5
Learn about risk factors across the various nodes of the Depression Map, and the evidence (or lack thereof) for each.
Skills You'll Develop
This comprehensive What Causes Clinical Depression? curriculum is designed to take you from foundational concepts to advanced implementation. Each module builds upon the previous, ensuring a structured learning path that maximizes knowledge retention and practical application.
Course Requirements & Target Audience
Understand what you need to succeed in this course and determine if it's the right fit for your learning goals
What you need before starting this What Causes Clinical Depression? course:
- An interest in mood and mental health issues.
- A desire to learn more about the causes of low or depressed mood than is usually provided by online overviews - or by clinicians.
- An interest in going beyond the usual "biochemical imbalance" shorthand to look at what the data actually tell us.
- And that's all: You don't need any particular educational background, or any special supplies. We'll provide you with a complete set of downloadable course notes that you can print out and use to follow along with the lectures.
This course is perfect for:
- Motivated learners at any level
- Self-paced students
- Anyone interested in the subject
This course might not be suitable if:
- • You're looking for a quick tutorial rather than comprehensive learning
- • You prefer learning without structured curriculum
- • You need highly specialized or niche content
Course Information & Details
Everything you need to know about this online course, from duration to certification
Course Instructor
Randy Paterson
Expert instructor with industry experience
Course Language
English
All materials in English
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What's Included
- 3 hours on-demand video
- 2 downloadable resources
- Access on mobile and TV
- Certificate of Completion
- Full lifetime access
- ✓Instant access after enrollment
- ✓Learn at your own pace
- ✓Direct enrollment with Udemy
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