Resources​

Medical supports

• Community mental health clinics or hospital-based psychiatry outpatient clinics
• University- or hospital-affiliated cognitive therapy and interpersonal therapy clinics

Self-help or support groups

• Canadian Mental Health Association
• Local mood disorders support groups, see Mood Disorders Society of Canada

Self-management

• The Feeling Good Handbook by Dr. David D. Burns, Penguin Books, 1999.
• Mind Over Mood by David Greenberg and Christine Padesky, Guilford Press, 1995.
• Reinventing Your Life: How to Break Free of Negative Life Patterns by Jeffrey Young and Janet Klosko, Penguin  Books, 1993.
• The Mindful Way through Depression by Mark Williams, John Teasedale, Zindel Segal and Jon Kabat-Zinn, Guilford Press, 2007.

Online resources

• Canadian Mental Health Association
• Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments
• Internet Mental Health
• Mood Disorders Society of Canada
• National Institute of Mental Health
• Academy of Cognitive Therapy
• British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies
• Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

Ari E. Zaretsky, Psychotherapy in primary care, Psychiatry in Primary Care (CAMH, 2011).