• The keys to optimal management of treatment-resistant depression and depression in special populations include careful assessment, selection of evidence-based treatments tailored to the individual, and ongoing monitoring of response and outcome.
• Given the still limited evidence base, use and selection of antidepressants depends on an individual risk-benefit assessment in elderly patients, those with other medical illnesses, pregnant and breastfeeding women, and children and adolescents.
Depression is the most common psychiatric disorder and a very important public health preoccupation. Part of the Oxford Psychiatry Library, this concise online reference covers the clinical features and possible causes of clinical depression, as well as current treatment strategies including pharmacotherapy, psychotherapy and somatic treatments.
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