Assessment and treatment of depression.

2018 ◽  
pp. 59-78
Author(s):  
Matthew M. Burg
Keyword(s):  
Treatment Of Depression ◽  
Assessment And Treatment

Diagnosis, assessment, and treatment of depression in advanced disease

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Hotopf
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Advanced Disease ◽  
Antidepressant Treatment ◽  
Population Level ◽  
Care Staff ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Treatment Of Depression ◽  
Assessment And Treatment ◽  
Palliative Care Services ◽  
Key Issues

Depression in palliative care is common, under-recognised and has significant impacts for sufferers. There are effective treatments but often a shortage of staff to provide them. This chapter sets out a number of key issues to consider when assessing and treating individual patients and considers the way in which palliative care services can innovate to provide a population level response to depression. Palliative care staff can be trained to deliver basic depression care and follow simple protocols to initiate, monitor and adjust antidepressant treatment. These approaches have been tested in trials in cancer care but the challenge is to take these approaches from research trials conducted in centres of excellence with good resources, to other settings.

Assessment and treatment of depression in medically ill children

2002 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 88-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eyal Shemesh ◽  
Abraham Bartell ◽  
Jeffrey H. Newcorn
Keyword(s):  
Medically Ill ◽  
Treatment Of Depression ◽  
Assessment And Treatment

scholarly journals Assessment and treatment of depression in children and young people in the United Kingdom: Comparison of access to services and provision at two time points

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-132
Author(s):  
Victoria Pile ◽  
Diana Shammas ◽  
Patrick Smith
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Young People ◽  
Clinical Excellence ◽  
Population Data ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Time Points ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Treatment Of Depression ◽  
Assessment And Treatment ◽  
Nice Guidance

Depression in young people is common and impairing. There have been significant service changes in the United Kingdom in the last decade, aiming to improve access to evidence-based interventions for depression. However, it is unclear whether youth with depression, first, access services and, second, receive appropriate interventions. In the current study, anonymised data from child and adolescent mental health services were extracted from a 1-year period at two time points (time 1: n = 770; time 2: n = 733). First, these were compared with prevalence and population data. Second, a subsample ( n = 45 at each time point) was evaluated against National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines. Approximately, one-quarter of the expected number of cases (according to population and prevalence data) were seen in the 12 to 18-years age group, and only 2% of expected cases were seen in the 0 to 11-years age group. This was consistent across time points. Adherence to NICE guidance was mostly good at both time points, but there were concerns raised by this evaluation, in particular the use of medication in this population. From time 1 to 2, there was an increase in use of questionnaire measures, but a decrease in the correct completion of risk assessments.

Diagnosis, Assessment, and Treatment of Depression in Palliative Care

2008 ◽  
pp. 129-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hayley Pessin ◽  
Yesne Alici Evcimen ◽  
Andreas J. Apostolatos ◽  
William Breitbart
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Treatment Of Depression ◽  
Assessment And Treatment
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