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Chapter 6: Happiness, Depression and Self-Concept 
Overview
 
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Life history and gender factors in depression
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Signs of depression
Happiness
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What is meant by happiness?
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How do we become happy?
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The interaction of happiness and depression
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Martin Seligman’s Thesis on Happiness
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Forces affecting happiness and depression
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Suggestions for increasing happiness
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Life circumstances in |happiness
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Promising routes to happiness
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Theories about the causes of depression
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The result of losses
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Genetic-physiological-chemical factors
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Poor social skills
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Helplessness and hopelessness
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How do you explain things?
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Negative views
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Irrational ideas
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Unreasonable thinking and faulty conclusions
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Self-critical withdrawal
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Anger turned inward
A fairy tale--Sooty Sarah...
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Guilt
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Unmet dependency
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Impossible goals or no goals
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Shame
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Lacking self-control
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Summary of the causes of depression; How to use these        
theories
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Sad times of our lives--
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Death
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Thoughts of suicide?
 
Understanding suicide
Barriers to getting treatment
Rate of suicide by special groups
Predicting suicide is hard
Warning signs
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