How Depression is prevented ?

There are number of studies which found that behavioral treatments like the inter personal therapy can prevent this depression. This treatment is quite effective in groups as well as individual alones. It deals with the social and inter personal factors that may lead to depression. It decreases the stress and there are number of sessions which are done at the intervals. It can be spread with the help of internet. The preventive programs must be behavior oriented. But in case of older patients the behavior programme are not so effective. In the elder people social programmes are more successful. There must be multiple sessions which can prevent the depression which last for hour to one and a half hour. They are given by a combination of professional as well as lay workers. The most common and successful program is the coping with depression.