PH’s treatment involves a combination of psychotherapy and antidepressant medication. Following the social learning/interpersonal model, the focus of his therapy is increasing PH’s activity level and helping him learn new social skills, encouraging PH to take part in activities such as joining the other residents in playing bingo, to functions that take place outside of the facility, such as going to museum. One of the hopes is to interrupt and reverse the ongoing process in which social isolation, rumination, and inactivity are leading to increased depression, depression is leading him to further withdraw himself from others. Through the development of new response patterns, particularly those involving interpersonal communication and social
