Effectiveness of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy in Treatment of Depression : A Study of Employed and Unemployed Downtrodden Persons
Keywords:
CBT, Depression, Unemployed, Employed, Downtrodden Persons.Abstract
Depression is affecting people around the world irrespective of their age, region, religion, caste, creed, colour, nationality, occupation and gender. Almost everyone experiences depression at one or other time in their lives. According to the report based on a survey conducted in seventeen countries by the World Health Organization (2012), on an average about one in twenty people reported having an episode of depressive illness. World Health Organization (2011) has expressed serious concern recognizing the deadliest association of depression with unemployment or loss of income and advised to and calls for the academicians, researchers, Nations of the world, and the public at large to chart out the measure to prevent and root out psychopathology during the periods of economic crisis especially unemployment. Depression is characterized by negative and dysfunctional cognition, sadness, withdrawal from social relationship, feeling of inadequacy, loss of interest, loss of appetite, low self-esteem, negative self-concept, disturbed social and occupation life and a set of psychological disturbances. Unemployment is a global problem, and people in developing countries suffer more socio-economically. Sen. (2000) has observed that unemployment has very serious repercussion on individual in particular and on family and society in general. The present researcher conducted study the effectiveness of cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) in the treatment of depression for employed and unemployed persons.
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