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A 34-year-old woman has been treated for adjustment disorder with depressed mood for ten months, since her only son sustained a spinal cord injury and she became his sole carer. He remains fully dependent on her. She cries most days and has stopped seeing friends, but still enjoys her book group, eats and sleeps adequately, and denies any thoughts of self-harm. She has completed eight sessions of cognitive behavioural therapy with partial benefit and asks what else can be done. Which one of the following will do most to shorten the course of her disorder?
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