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Perspective Taking and Schadenfreude
Competition and Freudenfreude
Depression Diagnosis and Assessment of Associated Features with the FAST
Depression: A Devastating Illness
The Downward Spiral of Depression
Assessing Empathy Deficits Associated with Depression: The Reliability and Validity of the Freudenfreude and Schadenfreude Test (FAST)
Test-Retest Reliability of the FAST
Predictive Construct Validity of the FAST
Can the FAST Predict Actual Emotional Responses?
Empathy and Depression: Too Much or Too Little Empathy?
Interpersonal Issues in Depression: The Role of Empathy
Mirror Neurons and Empathy
Depression: Too Much or too Little Empathy?
The Ursinus College Depression Project and the Discovery of WOTWOTS (Worries of the World on Their Shoulders)
Depression and Empathy Studies
Survivor Guilt within Individualistic Cultures
Too Much or too Little Empathy?
Research on the Relationship between Depression and Empathy
Empathy and Wellbeing: A Curvilinear Relationship?
Empathy versus Social Comparative Processing and Competitive Striving
Competitiveness and Social Comparison
Development of Social Comparison Tendencies
How We Learn to Manage Competitiveness Constructively
Family Experiences with Sibling Rivalry
Lifelong Lazy Reliance on Social Comparison
Research on Social Comparison and Depression
Self-Protective Downward Social Comparison and Schadenfreude
Competing More Actively Might Actually Help the Depressed
Social Media, Social Comparison, and Depression
Technology Fosters a Tide of Rising Expectations
Balancing Empathic Processing and Competitive/Comparative Processing
Marriage Combats Competition and Schadenfreude
Emphasizing Empathy Makes Sense: Why We Should Care More about Strangers
Therapy and Freudenfreude
Comparing Etiological Models of Depression
Multifactorial Etiological Models
Biological Factors: Biophysical or Medical Model
Neurotransmitter, Physiological, and Sleep Factors
The HPA Axis and Serotonin
Inflammation and Depression – Immune Response Cascade
The Gut-Brain Axis and Depression
Influence of the Brain on Microbiota
Influence of Microbiota on the Brain
Nutritional Factors: Diet, Coffee, and Depression
Surprising Findings about Happiness: Memory Biases Contribute to Depression
Romantic Relationship Factors
Attachment and Reassurance Seeking
Agreeableness and Depression
Parenting and Problems Frequently Accompanying Depression
Something New: Integrating the Etiological Role of Schadenfreude and Freudenfreude
The Possible Etiological Role of Schadenfreude and Freudenfreude
Schadenfreude and Freudenfreude
An Expanded Conceptualization of Psychological Risk Factors
Depression and Reactions to Others’ Experience of Success/Failure
Dispositional Differences in Freudenfreude and Schadenfreude and How They Relate to Depression
Interpersonal Conflict and Depression: The Role of Competitive Striving
The Depressive Cycle Following a Friend's Saying:
“Hey, Did I Tell You My GREAT News???”
Cross Cultural Assessment: 2015 Poland Studies
Depression and Schadenfreude: Evidence from a Clinical Sample
Aga Pietraszkiewicz and Catherine Chambliss
Explaining the Schadenfreude and Freudenfreude Features of Depression: Interrelationships among Depression, Competitiveness, Contentiousness, Freudenfreude, and Schadenfreude
Misery Does Love Company!
Sharing Success or Failure Trumped Solitary Personal Success!
Treatment Strategies to Combat Depression
Need for Better Treatment Strategies
Brief Review of Traditional Treatment Strategies
Selecting Treatment Modalities
Psychological Treatment Methods
Psychotherapies for Depression
Interpersonal Therapy (IPT)
The Importance of Interpersonal Factors in Treating Depression
Brief Outline of Interpersonal Treatment (IPT)
Problem-Solving Therapy (PST)
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Mindfulness and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
A Simple Sample: Mindfulness Instructions
Relapse Prevention through Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)
Brain Changes due to MBCT
Group Mindfulness Training
Mindfulness Training versus Progressive Relaxation Training
Trauma Focused Treatments, EMDR, DBT, and Other Psychotherapeutic Options
Biological Treatment Methods
Psychopharmacotherapy: Antidepressant Medications
Antidepressant Effectiveness in Particular Subgroups (Severe and Atypical Depression)
The STAR* (Sequenced Treatment Alternatives to Relieve) Depression Trial
The Limitations of Current Antidepressant Medications
Controversy Surrounding Current Antidepressant Medications
Risks of Mania, Suicide, and Birth Defects
Pharmacogenomics: Future Advances
Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
Light versus Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Alternative Biological Treatment Strategies
The Importance of Common Factors in the Treatment of Depression
General Psychotherapeutic Techniques
The Evolution of Psychotherapy in the Affordable Care Act/Managed Care Era
Treatment Trends and Avoiding Risks
Iatrogenic Risks of Long-Term Psychotherapy
The Negative Placebo Effect
The Risks of Seeing Some Questionable “Experts”
Individual Therapy Can Harm Families
The Psychological Price of Inpatient Care
Primum Non Nocere: Do No Harm! Less Can Be More
Interpersonal Mutuality Training to Build Freudenfreude
A New Depression Treatment Component
Interpersonal Mutuality Training (IMT): The Efficacy of Freudenfreude Enhancement Techniques (FET)
Research on Interpersonal Mutuality Training (IMT) to Treat Depression
Interpersonal Mutuality Training (IMT) Instructions
Active Listening Training (ALT) Instructions
Cultural Casualties Case Study Mobile Technology May Increase Risk of Depression: Depression and Mobile Device Disruption of Interpersonal Relationships
Technology: Mental Health Friend or Foe?
Social Disruption Due to Technology:
Are Our Mobile Devices Reducing Empathy in Our Communication?
Cell Phone Use and Depression
Cultural Casualties Case Study:
Changing Family Roles May Increase Risk of Depression
Parental Self-Esteem Correlates of Family Employment Lifestyle
Parental Employment Shifts: Effects on Children’s and Parents’ Attitudes and Depression
Study 1: Parental Esteem Ratings by Children
The Role of Maternal Employment Motivation
Study II: Parental Esteem Self-Ratings
Buoying Spirits and Treating Depression: Applying Empathy Research Clinically
Role of Relationships, Expectations, and Estrangement in Depression
Managing Life via Social Comparison
Some Response Options When Others Succeed (and We Do Not)
Some Response Options When Others Fail or Suffer Losses (and We Do Not)
What Can Fix This Empathy Problem?
What Can Be Done to Improve Relationships?
Applying Research Insights Clinically
Celebrating the Success of Others: Building Freudenfreude in Ourselves and Our Clients
Is It So Simple? Probably Not. Some Challenging Questions to Ponder
Schadenfreude Is Not All Bad!
Some Advantages of Schadenfreude
Can Freudenfreude Be Overdone?
Is Lowering Expectations Wise?
Playing the Gratitude Game
Empathy Rules: Depression, Schadenfreude, and Freudenfreude Research on Depression Risk Factors and Treatment
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