Clinicians Corner

This section of the University of Louisville web site is designed for clinicians who treat persons with depression and other mood disorders. Clinical tools that are provided include treatment guidelines used at the Center, rating scales for assessing symptoms of mood disorders, and worksheets and exercises from cognitive-behavior therapy that are commonly used to help patients gain CBT skills.

Use the list on this page to view available clinical tools and multimedia educational materials.

Treatment guidelines

• University of Louisville Guidelines for Treatment of Major Depression (PDF file)
• University of Louisville Guidelines for Treatment of Bipolar Disorder (PDF file)
• University of Louisville Guidelines for Treatment of Depression in Children and Adolescents (PDF file)
  - Includes a Child Medication Algorithm (PDF file)

Rating scales

• Inventory for Depressive Symptomatology – 16 (IDS-16) (PDF file)
• Patient Health Questionnaire – 9 (PHQ-9 (PDF file)
• Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression – 17 item version (HAMD-17) (PDF file)
• Young Mania Scale (PDF file)

CBT worksheets and skill building exercises

The following links provide access to useful CBT worksheets, self-help exercises, and readings from books authored by Jesse H. Wright, M.D., Ph.D. and others and Cognitive-Behavior Therapy for Severe Mental Illness) published by American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.

From Learning Cognitive-Behavior Therapy: An Illustrated Guide (Wright JH, Basco MR, Thase ME: American Psychiatric Publishing Inc. Washington, DC, 2006) Learn more about this publication

• CBT Case Formulation Worksheet
• Automatic Thoughts Checklist
• Thought Change Record
• Definitions of Cognitive Errors
• Examining the Evidence for Automatic Thoughts Worksheet
• Weekly Activity Schedule
• Schema Inventory
• Examining the Evidence for Schemas Worksheet
• CBT Supervision Checklist

From Cognitive-Behavior Therapy for Severe Mental Illness(Wright JH, Turkington D, Kingdon DG, Basco MR: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc. Washington, DC, 2009) Learn more about this book)

• Psychotic Symptoms Rating Scales (PSYRATS)
• What’s Happening to Me? A Voice Hearing Pamphlet
• List of 60 Coping Strategies for Hallucinations
• Books for Patients and Families
• Recommended Readings on CBT

Videos and audios

The Clinician Training Videos page offers a list of online videos and audio presentations.

The following publications include a DVD with video illustrations:
From Learning Cognitive-Behavior Therapy: An Illustrated Guide (Wright JH, Basco MR, Thase ME: American Psychiatric Publishing Inc. Washington, DC, 2006) (Examples from the 19 video illustrations of CBT available in this book presented with permission of the authors and American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.)

• Learn more about this publication
• View videos from this publication

  "The Progress in the Treatment of Depression" - Videos from 2008 UofL Depression Conference VIEW VIDEOS (2)

  From From Cognitive-Behavior Therapy for Severe Mental Illness((Wright JH, Turkington D, Kingdon DG, Basco MR: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc. Washington, DC, 2009) (Examples from the 18 video illustrations of CBT available in this book presented with permission of the authors and American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.) Learn more about this book

  • Engaging a Patient with Chronic Depression
  • An Anti-suicide Plan
  • Behavioral Intervention for Anhedonia
  • Building Self-esteem