Assessment and treatment of depression and anxiety.

Author(s):  
Gregory A. Hinrichsen
Author(s):  
Matthew Hotopf

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.


2002 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 88-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eyal Shemesh ◽  
Abraham Bartell ◽  
Jeffrey H. Newcorn

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