Understanding Depression

Synopsis: A video-based training resource designed to facilitate the recognition and treatment of depression in people with learning disabilities. The programme uses the story ‘Feeling Blue’ and a short drama enacted by people with learning disabilities to convey the motions involved and emphasise the key points. Topics include: features of depressing; expressing feelings; access to services; causes and outcomes of depression; issues for medical students.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video; Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min.
Year of production: 199
Availability: out of distribution
Documentation: Accompanying 68-page guide for tutors, notes for clients’, ‘Feeling Blue’ picture book.
Uses: Individuals and groups of people with learning disabilities, their relaties and support staff such as counsellors, residential and field workers, day centre staff, advocates, teachers and health care professionals.
Subjects: Social welfare
Keywords: depression - medical; learning disabilities; mental illness

Name: Pavilion Publishing Ltd
Email: info@pavpub.com
Web: http://www.pavpub.com External site opens in new window
Phone: 01273 623 222
Fax: 0844 880 5062
Address: Richmond House
Richmond Road
Brighton
East Sussex
BN2 3RL
Notes: Print and video/DVD-based training materials on topics in health and social care. Areas covered include learning disability, mental health, young people and children, drugs and alcohol, vulnerable adults, and older people.

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