Medical Depressive Disorder

Description

An authoritative manual for diagnosing and treating depression in people with medical conditions The idea behind Depression in Medical Disease is to effectively comprehend, identify, and treat depression and medical illness. They must be viewed through a single lens. Along with a critical study and fair portrayal of the available empirical facts, the authors throughout the book emphasize an active synthesis, formulation, and analysis of that evidence. This influences current biomedical ideas as well as diagnostic and therapeutic approaches. A member wrote each chapter in this book of the renowned Brigham and Women's Hospital Department of Psychiatry. Other notable Brigham medical and surgical professionals or subspecialists have joined psychiatrists with specialized competence in those fields in chapters devoted to certain medical diseases. This makes these chapters useful for a variety of medical specialists in addition to psychiatrists and other mental health practitioners. Organized logically into four sections: The Core Concepts section offers a conceptual and intellectual foundation for comprehending depression in the context of other medical illnesses. Assessment and Treatment of Depression in Medically Ill Patients - discusses depression diagnosis and treatment principles. Depression in Medical Illness - Examine what is known about depression when it co-occurs with the spectrum of major medical diseases. Special Patient Populations and Settings - discusses unique patient populations and the significance of the environments in which healthcare is provided.