#207 Today's guest is Dr. Steven Hollon—the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Psychology at Vanderbilt University. His work focuses on the etiology and treatment of depression in adults, with his research showing that cognitive and behavioral interventions for depression can be as efficacious as and more enduring than antidepressant medications. In this episode, we discuss:

+ Why Dr. Hollon became interested in studying depression

+ What percentage of the population actually struggles with depression

+ Ways we should be thinking about the current mental health crisis

+ The process of self-reflecting on depression & what people get wrong

+ Evolutionary mechanisms behind our symptoms of depression

+ Effective treatments for depression other than antidepressant medications

+ How changing your thoughts and behaviors through CBT can affect depression

+ What makes someone more likely to have repeated episodes of depression

+ Why adolescents can be more vulnerable to depression

+ Two crucial things you can do to stop a depressive episode

+ Trusting adolescents to make positive changes for their mental health

MENTIONED

+ ABCT

+ Dr. Hollon's Research

+ Mind Over Mood

+ "What we got wrong about depression..."

+ Seligman & Maier on learned helplessness

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