Dealing with Depression and Low Mood

Course Overview

This course empowers students to make the changes they need to create the life they want for themselves. They will learn how Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) can help them to deal with difficult emotions and situations, how mindfulness can improve their wellbeing and what they can do to create the future they want. We all have negative thoughts that pop into our heads uninvited, but sometimes they can be overwhelming and take over our life. CBT can offer strategies to help improve our mood and declutter our brains from unwanted thoughts. Students will start off by looking at what low mood is and identifying what difficult thoughts, feelings and behaviours are happening right now in their lives. Once they have identified what is troubling them, they can look at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and what keeps their problems going. Students will then learn and practise various strategies to change how they feel, what they think and what they do. By the end of the course, students will have a clearer picture of their difficulties, how they are maintained and how to make a change and continue to improve their mood independently. Handouts will be provided so that students can practise these skills now and in the future. The course will be very practical so that students get a chance to practise and develop their confidence by using the strategies learnt.