Mental Health and Wellness Resources: Depression

Activating Happiness

Offers strategies to help you conquer low motivation, nix negative moods, and defeat depression by actively making positive choices in small, everyday moments.

Beyond the Blues

This book can help you cope with sad and difficult feelings, find new ways to make friends, and deal with conflicts. Little by little and on your own schedule, you can make small changes in your life that will lead you to a brighter, more enjoyable future.

Mind Your Head

Covering topics from anxiety and depression to addiction, self-harm and personality disorders, the authors talk clearly and supportively about a range of issues facing young people's mental health - whether fleeting or long-term - and how to manage them.

Mindfulness for Teen Depression

Two experts offer powerful tools based in mindfulness and positive psychology to empower young readers who suffer from depression.

Exercise for Mood and Anxiety : Proven Strategies for Overcoming Depression and Enhancing Well-being 

Exercise has long been touted anecdotally as an effective tool for mood improvement.  This is an easy-to-use guide that will enable readers to improve their moods and reduce anxiety through engagement in regular exercise.

Help Yourself Move Out of Depression and Anxiety

A practical 12 step self-help program which is a guide to overcoming the feelings of fear, anxiety and depression. Encouraging a proactive approach, 'Help Yourself' is filled with effective strategies for change, such as goal setting, positive self-talk and letting go.

Beating the Blues : New Approaches to Overcoming Dysthymia and Chronic Mild Depression

This is a clear, practical resource for the millions of people plagued by persistent mild depression. One of the most underrecognized and undertreated mood disorders, dysthymia can be treated through self-help measures, psychotherapy, medication, or a combination of all three. This book is designed to offer general information on dysthymia and outline specific measures individuals can take in order to reclaim a positive outlook on life.

Overcoming Depression : A Cognitive Therapy Approach : Workbook

This workbook is designed to help you as you work together with a qualified mental health professional to overcome your depression. The program described will help you develop a set of coping strategies and skills so that you can proactively deal with depression and prevent it from compromising your quality of life. Based on the idea that depression is a "beast" to be tamed, the treatment utilizes an acronym to help you understand the goals of treatment.

Depression:  A Very Short Introduction

Covering depression, manic depression, and bipolar disorder, this book gives a brief account of the history of these concepts, before focusing on the descriptions and understanding of these disorders today.

Depression: Your Questions Answered

Provides an approachable introduction to the topic of depression, especially as it relates to teens and young adults.

Heads Up: Changing Minds on Mental Health

While providing information on the major mental health diagnoses, Siebert also shares ideas and resources to support those who are suffering, including holistic ways of balancing mind, body, heart and spirit.

Looking After Your Mental Health

Provides a gentle guide to good mental health, with input from experts in both psychology and psychiatry.

Mind Over Mood

Helps readers use cognitive-behavioral therapy--one of today's most effective forms of psychotherapy--to conquer depression, anxiety, panic attacks, anger, guilt, shame, low self-esteem, eating disorders, substance abuse, and relationship problems.

The Mindful Way Through Depression

Drawing on both Eastern meditative traditions and cognitive therapy, the authors demonstrate how to sidestep the mental habits that lead to despair, including rumination and self-blame, so you can face life's challenges with greater resilience.