A Primary Care Guide to Depression

Description

This book is intended as a resource for all primary health care providers to use in their daily practices. It uses a cased-based framework supported by best evidence-based information and includes practice-ready field tested clinical tools that will help primary care health providers to integrate the best scientific evidence regarding depressive disorders into their care for patients.The book provides a practical and primary care friendly self-learning experience in the area of depression across the life span and sets to improve knowledge about depression and its treatment among different age groups. It also helps practitioners help upgrade their core clinical skills which are necessary to diagnose, effectively treat and appropriately monitor depression across lifespan. In addition, this guide to depression seeks to provide primary care practitioners with clinical pearls and useful everyday tools that fit the practice reality of the busy primary health care provider.The book will employ a case-based fra