Plan de intervención para el tratamiento del trastorno de depresión mayor desde el enfoque cognitivo conductual.

Abstract

Depression represents a health problem worldwide, it presents symptoms such as feelings of sadness, disinterest or loss of pleasure, guilt, low self-esteem, sleep or appetite disturbances, exhaustion and poor concentration. Among the depressive disorders, the most common disturbance is Major Depressive Disorder or by its acronym TDM, the disease burden of this disorder may decrease, worldwide, as long as the coverage of the treatment is increased. It is for this reason, that the present descriptive bibliographic work proposes an effective intervention, which has three months duration and a total of fourteen sessions from the cognitive behavioral approach or CBT, this treatment was formulated from the review of scientific articles, with which information was collected on basic concepts that served to elucidate the questions of the subject. First the major depression was defined and the prevalence, diagnostic criteria, comorbidity and its differential diagnosis were detailed. In the second instance, cognitive behavioral therapy was conceptualized, in which its theoretical bases were briefly explained, cognitive triad, schemas and cognitive errors were addressed, finally, cognitive and behavioral techniques were described within the intervention, between the techniques are the programming of activities, the mastery and pleasure technique, the behavioral essay, the assignment of gradual tasks, the assertiveness training, the role-playing, the psychoeducation, the cognitive restructuring, the retribution techniques, the search for Alternative solutions, the technique of recording inappropriate