Depression Proof Yourself: And Your Kids!
By Bruce Elkin
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Depression Proof Yourself — and Your Kids! is a short handbook with which to safeguard yourself and your children against the epidemic of depression which has been sweeping our nations in the last 20 years.
Learn how to recognize depression, master adversity, increase your sense of personal control and emotional master -- and create results that matter, with whatever life gives you!
Contents include:
• What's Going On With Us and Our Kids?
• How To Tell If You, Your Child Are Depressed?
• Safeguarding Kids From Depression
• Mastering Adversity
• Increase Your AQ With 4 CORE Skills
• The ABCs of Emotional Mastery
• Creating What Truly Matters
• Integrating AQ With The "Creating" Approach
Written by an educator and personal success coach with your years of experience helping people avoid and overcome depression, this ebook could quite simply change your life.
Bruce Elkin
Bruce Elkin is a Personal Life Coach, Emotional Mastery Coach and Success Coach with over 25 years experience, and successful clients on 6.5 continents. He works with competent individuals and professionals who are temporarily stuck, stalled, or drifting. His firm, structured coaching approach helps them get clear about what they truly care about–and create lives and work that show it! He is author of Simplicity and Success: Creating the Life You Long For, and the e-Books Emotional Mastery, and Creating Sustainable Success. And, now, on Smashwords.com THRIVE! Creating What Matters - In Challenging Times & Beyond! @ http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/90569 His most recent ebook is The ABCs of Emotional Mastery, a practical guidebook for changing your mood and behaviour by changing your thoughts and stories. It is available here at Smashword, as is a free sample. Scroll down to access it.
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Depression Proof Yourself - Bruce Elkin
Depression Proof Yourself
And Your Kids!
A guide to overcoming adversity, building resilience and
creating what matters, with whatever you have.
By Bruce Elkin
Copyright 2012 Bruce Elkin
All Rights Reserved.
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Other Books by Bruce Elkin
THRIVE!
Creating What Matters In Challenging Times & Beyond!
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/90569
Simplicity and Success:
Creating The Life You Long For
http://www.bruceelkin.com/simplicity-book.html
Dedicated to all those parents and teens
who couldn’t take it anymore and chose to leave us.
Their spirits make us stronger!
CONTENTS
Chapter 1: What’s Going On With Us And Our Kids?
Chapter 2: How To Tell If You, Your Child Are Depressed?
Chapter 3: Safeguarding Kids From Depression
Chapter 4: Mastering Adversity
Chapter 5: AQ and The 4 CORE Skills
Chapter 6: The ABCs of Emotional Mastery
Chapter 7: Creating What Truly Matters
Chapter 8: Integrating AQ With The Creating
Approach
CHAPTER 1
WHAT’S GOING ON WITH US AND OUR KIDS?
"Almost one-third of contemporary thirteen year olds have marked depressive symptoms, and by the time they finish high school, almost 15 percent have had an episode of major depression."
—Martin Seligman, Ph. D.
The number of adults and children suffering from depression is rising.
Experts estimate that depression in kids increased by ten to twenty times since the 1950’s. Mental Health research organizations estimate that between 1.5 million and 3.4 million children in the US are depressed.
One specialist in child depression estimates that over one in four youngsters will experience a serious episode of depression by the time they reach their eighteenth birthday.
We are in the middle of an epidemic of depression
states Dr. Martin Seligman, past-president of the American Psychological Society, and one with consequences that, through suicide, takes as many lives as the AIDS epidemic and is more widespread.
Depression affects all kinds of people, in all kinds of life and work situations. But he worst part of the staggering rise in depression is its effects on our kids.
In Canada, a national newspaper headline announced that 27 percent of teen girls fall prey to disordered eating and face increased risks of depression and suicide. A recent TV special laid bare the agony of three mothers whose teens took their own lives this year. Suicide, reported another special on teen depression, is now the number two cause of death among Canadian teens. Car accidents are first.
When I asked local kids about all these reports, they shrugged their shoulders. One kid mumbled, Shit happens! Kids are way bummed by stuff these days.
Then they turned away from me.
What’s going on? Why is this happening?
Most important, what can we do about it?
What’s Going On?
Seligman, a professor of Positive Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania whose theory of Learned Helplessness
was deemed the landmark theory of the 20th Century by the