Resilience as a positive psychotherapy in major depressive disorder

Pages: 160-162
Shallu and Promila Batra (Department of Psychology, Maharishi Dayanad University, Rohtak, Haryana)

Depression is a worldwide phenomenon, causing disability in people of all ages, gender and socioeconomic status. It has impacted more than 264 million people throughout globe. It is characterized by low mood, lack of interest in activities, negative outlook towards self and future etc. this disorder leads to suicide. Along with pharmacotherapy there is a need to change patient’s thought process in the disease. Positive psychotherapy targets on enhancing positive aspects and aims to reduce negative aspects in depression. There is a need of character that can make people bounce back to normal from diseased condition. Resilience as a positive psychotherapy is the ability an individual make successful adaptations towards disturbances that can be threatening to system viability, or development. There is very less literature available for resilience as a treatment therapy in depression. To study the effect of resilience on patients with mild to moderate depression. 30 patients suffering from mild to moderate depression according to DSM-V were included in current study. A 7 session short resilience module was designed.. A pre and post-assessment was done using Montgomery Åsberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS). Pre and post assessment scores on were analyzed by using t test for paired samples and resilience was found to be significantly effective in reducing the depressive symptoms (t= 16.942, p = .000).