Depression
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Depression
（British medical bulletin, v. 57）
Published for the British Council by Oxford University Press, 2001
Available at 2 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Part of a series of expert reviews on health topics in fields where significant developments are occurring. As a reference source, it allows those working in other specialities and younger clinicians and scientists to update their knowledge in important and well-defined subject areas. The text includes: written and computer-based self-help treatments for depression; developments in understanding the psychosocial aspects of depression; information about depression, suicide and deliberate self-harm in adolescence; insights from neurobiology; and the link between depression and sexual dysfunction.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Classification, disability and the public health agenda
- Recent developments in understanding the psychosocial aspects of depression
- Cultural factors and international epidemiology
- Depression, suicide and deliberate self-harm in adolescence
- Depression - emerging insights from neurobiology
- Depression and sexual dysfunction
- Cognitive therapy for depression
- Counselling and interpersonal therapies for depression: towards securing an evidence-base
- Written and computer-based self help treatments for depression
- Meta-analytical studies on new antidepressants
- Developments in mood stabilisers
- Treatment delivery and guidelines in primary care
- Lay attitudes to professional consultations for common mental disorder: a sociological perspective
- Stigma of depression - a personal view
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