Partnership Opportunities
Group Leadership - become a group leader for one of our online support sessions. This can be a great way to market yourself and potentially gain clients and referrals.
Get Discounts - We can provide you with coupons and flyers you can print for your patients. Your patients will be pleased that you are offering this additional path toward wellness.
Editorial Contributions - Submit a depression tip or create a depression video that we will publish with attribution. This is another way that you can market yourself through our service.
Get Involved - Make a topic suggestion for one of our support groups. Would you like to see a support group that focuses on a particular problem e.g. "bipolar disorder" or issue "work and depression" or type of client, "young adults group". Let us know and we will consider promoting it - you may want to lead such a group.
Link Up - If you have a website, please support us by placing a hyperlink or logo onto your site. We can list you as a resource on our site in return.
Contact Us - For more information on any of the opportunities listed above, please contact us at customer_service@depressionrecoverygroups.com |
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Our Role in the Care Of Your Clients
Our goal at Depression Recovery Groups is to be an effective adjunct to care that our participants receive from licensed healthcare practitioners. We provide self-help education and peer-support that is focused on effectively dealing with depression, bipolar disorder, and anxiety. In our work with hundreds of participants, most of whom have been under the care of both a therapist and psychiatrist, we have seen how a support group can enhance compliance with treatment plans and encourage a healthier lifestyle.
Our Group Leaders
Our group leaders have graduate level training and many have personal experience with depression. They receive instruction and supervision so that they can effectively facilitate an online support group. The group leader's focus is to welcome, orient, educate and effectively manage the sharing time of each group they lead. The sharing part of our meetings is the most important segment and our goal is to have the participants help each other as much as possible.
The leader is also responsible to make our meetings as participative and engaging as possible by using a mixture of audio and web tools. We do this in a way that tries to be sensitive to each individual's state at a particular meeting. One of our meeting guidelines states that "It's OK not to share - people don't need to actively participate, much can be gained by just listening."
What We Promote
In general, everything that we recommend is based on publicly funded research, usually multiple studies or meta analyses of published research. Since we are not providing therapy, our focus is on suggesting and reinforcing a healthful lifestyle that can prevent or reduce depression problems. Our major recommendations are inherent in the twelve topics we cycle through in each of our groups. In addition we generally promote the use of cognitive behavioral and mindfulness techniques which are covered in the twelve topics as "Healthy Thinking" and "Self-Awareness / Mindfulness".
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