Overview
Review the depression treatment guidelines (APA, VA/DoD, NICE) in clinical resources and compare the recommendations. Which guidelines do you find most useful? Least useful? Why? Compare and contrast each of the guidelines, and provide rationale for which one you are most likely to use as a first-line reference tool going forward in your practice.
Instructions
- Read the questions for this assignment.
- Reflect on what is being asked. Consider the learning materials you learned this week in the course.
- Fully answer each of the questions posed to you. It should be 2-3 pages in length, excluding title and reference page, in APA format, with a minimum of 3 peer-reviewed references. Grammar, punctuation and spelling should be appropriate.
- Your assignment should be in APA format with evidence-based references to support your statements.
Please refer to the Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded.
SOLUTION
Depression Treatment Guidelines
APA (American Psychiatric Association has in the recent past updated its guideline on the management of the major depressive disorder. The new guideline is evidence-based and it sums up recommendations on the administration of antidepressants as well as other drug therapies, psychotherapy, encompassing electroconvulsive therapy, and cognitive behavioral therapy. Patients experiencing major depressive disorder tend to have co-occurring psychiatric disorders, such as substance abuse disorders. In this respect, patients have to consider suitable treatment for such diagnoses. Patients with depressive symptoms in line with another disorder but not meeting criteria for major depressive disorder are supposed to be treated pursuant to relevant guidelines touching on primary diagnosis (Bayes & Parker, 2018). The APA guidelines provide for the……………………………..$10
