Treating depression effectively : applying clinical guidelines / Sidney H. Kennedy [and others]

Treating Depression Effectively: Applying Clinical Guidelines is designed to help clinicians put existing clinical guidelines on the management of depression to their best practical use. Its focus is entirely practical; it disseminates first-hand experience on the most successful applications of pub...

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Online Access: Full Text (via EBSCO)
Other Authors: Kennedy, Sidney H.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Independence, KY : Martin Dunitz ; Distributed in the USA by Taylor & Francis, ©2004.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Prevalence, burden and diagnosis
  • 2. Principles of management
  • 3. Psychotherapies, alone and in combination
  • 4. Evolution of antidepressant agents
  • 5. Therapeutic choices of antidepressants across depressive disorders
  • 6. Practical issues in selecting antidepressants
  • 7. Electroconvulsive therapy and other physical treatments
  • 8. Complementary therapies
  • 9. Treatment-resistant depression
  • 10. Depression in women
  • 11. Depression in children and adolescents
  • 12. Depression in late life
  • 13. Comorbidityd: psychiatric and physical.