Treatment of Psychosocial Risk Factors in Depression

Clinical depression is the single leading cause of mental health disease burden in the world. The field needs a comprehensive understanding of the established risk factors for depression, and optimal strategies to translate these factors into intervention targets. This program is based on a forthcoming volume that provides incisive descriptions of how risk and resilience models can drive innovation and the development of evidence-based treatments for risk factors for clinical depression. In some cases, established risk factors have already been translated into interventions, but there are many areas for future development. Both current developments, as well as the implications for models of prevention and intervention are discussed.

• Describe the complexity of the construct of clinical depression, and its implications for models of risk and resilience.
• Review the major established psychological and social risk factors for depression.
• Discuss the evidence-based strategies that target established risk and vulnerability factors in depression, and the areas for future development.

Keith S. Dobson, FCPA, FCAHS, FRSC