The intervention and educational preventive program for mitigating of depression

从1990年左右开始，认知行为疗法治疗抑郁症的疗效主要在欧洲和美国得到明确。本研究的主要目的是在日本开发一个解决问题的程序，该程序可以有效地缓解负面情绪状态（抑郁，焦虑，担心），基于问题解决疗法，这是认知行为疗法的一种。结果发现了一种容易陷入消极情绪状态的问题解决模式，以及一种解决问题的有效模式。因此，制定了有效解决问题模式的教育方案，并对因心理健康障碍而请病假的员工等进行了指导，并验证了他们的负性情绪状态得到了缓解。

Since around 1990, efficacy of the cognitive behavioral therapy as treatment for depression has been made clear mainly in Europe and America. The present study was conducted with the main purpose as the development of a problem-solving program in Japan, which is effective in mitigating negative mood states(depression, anxiety, worry), based on the problem-solving therapy, one of the cognitive behavioral therapy techniques. As a result, a pattern in the process of solving the problem of being liable to fall into negative mood states, and also an effective pattern in problem-solving were found out. So an education program for the effective problem-solving pattern was worked out and guidance was given to persons such as employees on sick leave due to mental health disorder, and it was verified that their negative mood states were alleviated.