Treating Depression Effectively

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TREATING DEPRESSION EFFECTIVELY Applying Clinical Guidelines SECOND EDITION Depression is among the most prevalent of medical illnesses worldwide. second only to ischaemic heart disease as a cause of disability. For many patients it is a chronic and recurrent illness. with great impact on psychosocial function and quality of life. Trealing Depression Effectively is designed to help clinicians put existing clinical guidelines on the management of depression to their best practical use. It offers a global perspective on the problem that has proved invaluable for generál psychiatrists. trainees, generál practitioners. and physicians and nurses in primary care. This second edition has been revised and updated throughout and contains important new material on treatment planning. "this user-friendly volume ... provides an up-to-date account of depression in terms of comprehensive clinical management together with a review of depression in specific populations ... the authors are to be... Tovább

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TREATING DEPRESSION EFFECTIVELY Applying Clinical Guidelines SECOND EDITION Depression is among the most prevalent of medical illnesses worldwide. second only to ischaemic heart disease as a cause of disability. For many patients it is a chronic and recurrent illness. with great impact on psychosocial function and quality of life. Trealing Depression Effectively is designed to help clinicians put existing clinical guidelines on the management of depression to their best practical use. It offers a global perspective on the problem that has proved invaluable for generál psychiatrists. trainees, generál practitioners. and physicians and nurses in primary care. This second edition has been revised and updated throughout and contains important new material on treatment planning. "this user-friendly volume ... provides an up-to-date account of depression in terms of comprehensive clinical management together with a review of depression in specific populations ... the authors are to be commcnded for the achievement of getting an appropriate balance between being comprehensive vet concise" (Eur J Psychiatry. from a review ofthe first edition) Conlctils Pre\alence. burden and diagnosis • Principles of management • Psychotherapies. alonc ajid in combinalion • Hxolulion ol'aiuideprcssant agents • l:\idcncc bascd antidepressant sclcclion across depressi\e disorders • Practical issues in n>inti antidepressants • Scquential pharmaeotherapies liikí trealmenl-resisUint depression • Neuromodulation and other phvsical treatments • Complementary. light. slccp and c.\crcisc therapics • Depression in uonien • Depression in childrcn and adolcscents • Depression in late lile • Psychiatric and physical comorbiditics in depression Sidney H Kennedy. Ml). I R( PC . is Professor ol'Psschiatn at the L'nixersitx olToronto. and Ps\chiatrist-in-C hicl'at the l ni\ersit\ Health NeUvork. Toronto. C'anada Rayiliond W Lam. Ml). I RC PC. Is Prol'cssorand Ileadol'the Di\ision ol'Clinieal Neurosciencc at the Lni\ersil\ ol'British Columbia. Vancouxcr. C'anada Da\ id J Nutt. DM. I RC P. I R( Ps\ch. IMedSci. is Professor ol' Psvchopharmacoloüx at the l ni\ersil\ of Bristol. I K Vlichael E Thase. \ID. is Professor ol'Psxchiatrs at the L'ni\ersit\ ol'Penns\ Kania. School ol Medicinc. Philadelphia. l'SA Vissza