Group Therapy for Depression: The Coping with Depression Course

In this paper we describe the Coping with Depression course as it has been offered at the University of Oregon Depression Research Unit since 1979. The Coping with Depression course is a multimodal, psychoeducational group treatment for unipolar depression. The major vehicle for treatment is a course, i.e., an explicit educational experience; it is called a course because it teaches people techniques and strategies for coping with the problems...