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when he feels discouraged and plunging down.
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She's also helping him do what's called "anticipatory coping,"
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anticipating those situations that are going to
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trigger negative feelings and negative thoughts
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and coming up with ways of combating them
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in the moment that he can enact at the time.
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Cognitive behavioral therapy is very structured,
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it's very focused and it's designed to be relatively short-term.
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The one other major kind of psychotherapy for depression
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is interpersonal therapy.
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It's based on the theory that negative views of the self
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and expectations about the self and relationships are based on upbringings