The Welcome module gives you an overview of the DepressionASSIST program and project. It also shows you how to navigate the website and modules.
This module identifies strategies to maintain your own wellbeing when supporting someone with depression, and guides you through creating a personalised wellbeing plan.
Describes common symptoms experienced by people with depression, and highlights the importance of distinguishing who they are from their depression.
Introduces factors that can combine to cause depression, and ways depressive episodes may be triggered.
Describes some of the current and emerging treatments and coping strategies that people use to control their depression and its impact on their lives.
Identifies ways to communicate with and support a person who has major depressive disorder in a variety of situations. you can select what information may be relevant to you, and add this to your plans for providing support.
It is natural to feel very stressed if the person you care for is at risk of suicide or severely depressed. This module suggests ways to deal with these situations and assists you to develop crisis-management plans.
Major depressive disorder can affect relationships. In this module we describe some common challenges and approaches to maintain and develop your relationship with the person.
