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Introduction
Welcome to the Home Study Course sponsored by the Healthcare Training Institute. This course is entitled, Post Holiday Let Down and Depression. Our primary intent for this home study course is to provide quality education to foster your professional growth. The Institute has provided quality education since 1979. Hi. My name is Tracy Catherine Appleton. I will be the narrator of this CD set. We appreciate that you have chosen us as a vehicle for you to earn your Continuing Education Credit.

The purpose of the course is to assist you in increasing your knowledge regarding how to treat patients, clients, etc. dealing with post holiday depression. As each case study is given, if the concepts seem to be applicable to your situation, I encourage you to turn your CD player off and make a few notes regarding the application of the principle to your setting. However, these notes are for your purposes only and are not to be sent to the Institute. Also each section is very content dense. So feel free to replay the section to review the content either for your own purposes, or if you feel appropriate play the section in an individual or group session for client education. Also permission is granted to reproduce this CD. . We encourage you to duplicate give copies of this CD to colleagues, clients, etc. as you deem appropriate. We feel the information on our CD's is valuable. Thus, we have an interest in distributing CD's in as many ways as possible, to benefit the greatest number of people, who have a need and are receptive to this practical information.

Each of the questions that are included on this CD set is reprinted in your Test. These questions are sequential and deal with the section of content that preceded it. For this reason, to facilitate the answering of each question, you might read the question from the Test prior to listening to that CD section. By knowing what the question is ahead of time, you will then know the content to listen for that contains the answer. So just a hint, after you write down the answer to a question in your Test, read on to the next question in order to give you a "heads up" to listen for the content that contains the answer to the next question. Each answer is only used once. Keep in mind there is nothing trick or hard about these questions. They are merely intended to verify the playing of this CD set.

For the purpose of brevity, most generally, I will use the term "therapists" or "mental health professional." However, don't let these terms deter you from applying the concepts to your situations. When you hear the word "therapists," if your job title is social worker, psychologist, marriage and family therapist, mental health counselor, professional counselor, resident director, program assistant, etc. merely substitute the appropriate term that is the most meaningful to you. In short, don't let my use of the term "therapists" cognitively set you off track from hearing the content because your job title is school counselor, for example. I will also use the term "client" for the purposes of brevity. However, if you deal with patients, residents, students, consumers, etc., transpose "client" for the term that is the most meaningful to you in your work setting.

The remainder of this section and the rest of the sections on this CD set are intended for the client education portion of your treatment sessions.

Thus this CD set is written in the context of the client-education portion of a session you might have with your client who is experiencing symptoms of let down or depression. Since the purpose of this CD set is to be used as a template for a client session, you might consider playing a section during a group or individual session. Also, as indicated earlier, permission is granted to reproduce this CD. You might consider providing a CD to a client or sharing this with colleague for their use with a client.

So, let's get started...

On this CD set we will discuss the following topics related to holiday let down and depression: happiness, forgiveness, gifts of the present, pausing between the pearls, Your Anxious Self vs. Your Core Self, negative thoughts, daily post-holiday hum-drum, living and learning, releasing and sleep, money, possessions, relationships, and arguing in peace.

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