Episode 74: Depressive Rumination
From The Christian Psychologist: Mental Health for 21st Century Christ Followers by Joshua Knabb
June 22, 2025 · 38 min · Episode 74
About this episode
Dr. Knabb discusses depressive rumination and offers strategies for overcoming it from a Christian perspective.
In this 74th episode, Dr. Knabb discusses depressive rumination, including its role in depressive episodes, drawing upon insights from meta-cognitive therapy. In this exploration, he offers several meta-cognitive strategies, including attentional training and detachment, for shifting from depressive rumination to another area of focus. To conclude the episode, Dr. Knabb provides a Christian view of depressive rumination, including biblical meditation as an attentional strategy to detach from unhelpful forms of rumination and pivot toward God.
People in this episode
Host: Dr. Knabb
Topics covered
- depressive rumination
- meta-cognitive therapy
- mental health
- Christian perspective
- biblical meditation
Keywords
- depression
- rumination
- meta-cognitive strategies
- attentional training
- detachment
- Christian mental health
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