A 38-year-old woman has a third depressive episode. It began four months after her mother died and she moved i…

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A 38-year-old woman has a third depressive episode. It began four months after her mother died and she moved interstate for work, leaving the friends and community group she had relied on for twenty years. She is tearful, sleeping poorly, and has withdrawn from her new colleagues. She completed sixteen sessions of cognitive behavioural therapy for a previous episode with only partial benefit and does not wish to repeat it. She does not harm herself, lives alone, and has no current family conflic…

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Interpersonal psychotherapy

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Acceptance and commitment therapy

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Dialectical behaviour therapy

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Family therapy

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Supportive psychotherapy

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