Psychological Correlates of Depression and their Management

Abstract

Depression is a common psychological disorder accompanied by feelings of newlineinadequacy, hopelessness, lack of energy, and difficulty concentrating. This disorder is newlineaffecting people of all ages, genders, and socio-economic groups in India and worldwide. newlineWith India witnessing significant changes (including globalisation, urbanisation, migration, newlineand modernisation) coupled with rapid socio-demographic transition, depression is likely to newlineincrease in the coming years. By recognising the seriousness of the situation, the current newlinestudy has attempted to investigate depressive adolescents in Indian context. This study has newlinefocused on different psychological correlates of depression which are responsible for making newlinethe condition worse in case of depressive individuals and to find the impact of Positive newlinePsycho-Therapy (PPT) intervention on depressive individuals. newline