Depression

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Depression

scientific editors, Malcolm H. Lader, Philip J. Cowen

(British medical bulletin, v. 57)

Published for the British Council by Oxford University Press, 2001

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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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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Details

  • NCID
    BA52667854
  • ISBN
    • 0199224870
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    London
  • Pages/Volumes
    iv, 228 p.
  • Size
    25 cm
  • Parent Bibliography ID
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