Depression in Medically Ill Children
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Each day children and adolescents† face a wide range of medical illnesses including allergies, asthma, epilepsy, cancer, diabetes, and obesity, all of which appear to be…
Depression in Sleep Disorders
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen The study of human sleep is a remarkably young field. Until the 1930s, sleep was viewed as a passive state during which the brain was “turned…
Depression in Medical Illness: Future Directions
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen This book has focused upon the prevalent and important interface of depression and medical illness. The clinical, personal, familial, societal, and financial impacts of this interaction…
Delivering Depression Care: Services and Settings
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Screening, comprehensive assessment, and effective treatments are necessary but not sufficient to adequately treat individuals with depression. They must be paired with effective and efficient systems…
Depression in Medical Illness: Future Directions
Depression in Medical Illness: Future Directions Print Section Related posts: Assessment of Depression in Patients with Medical Illnesses Depression and Gynecologic Conditions Depression in Pulmonary Disease Depression in Chronic Kidney…
The Surgical Patient
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen The literature on psychiatric illness in surgical patients is limited and mostly confined to small patient samples within surgical subspecialties. The findings suggest that depression, anxiety,…
Dermatologic Disease
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen The skin is the largest organ of the body, and skin disease is unique in often being immediately visible to others. This is one reason why…
Depression in the Medically Ill Older Adult
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen OVERVIEW Depression is among the most common health conditions affecting older adults. Depression may present in a phenotypically distinct manner in older, as opposed to younger,…
Depression and Substance Use Disorders
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen The comorbidity of major depression and substance use disorder (SUD), which includes both alcohol and drugs, remains very common in medical and psychiatric settings (Fig. 19-1).1–3…
Depression in the Patient with Chronic Pain
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen There are many challenging issues presented to a clinician when dealing with persons who have a primary report of chronic pain but who also present with…
