Overview
- Targets the treatment of depression in the primary care setting
- Focuses on practicality to ensure that primary care providers can easily reach for the book in real time
- Includes specific, evidence-based guidelines for triaging and managing indicators of suicide risk
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
Primary care providers shouldn’t have to do this alone. Help can come in many forms, of course, and some primary care practices are luckyenough to have a consulting psychiatrist on-site, available to answer any questions that come up and see patients directly when they need an expert opinion. This is exactly what David S Kroll, MD, an Associate Vice Chair in the Department of Psychiatry at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School, does for a primary care practice that serves more than 17,000 patients with a wide range of medical, social, and psychiatric problems. But most primary care practices don’t have this resource. This book replicates the expertise of a consulting psychiatrist in a concise volume that primary care providers can pull off their shelves whenever they have a question about managing depression. It ensures that no one has to do this on their own.
Managing Depression in Primary Care contains fourteen chapters that anticipate the questions, problems, and practical challenges that are most likely to come up when managing depression in primary care. It covers the basic skills that are needed for treating depression when it occurs in a vacuum, but it also provides practical guidance on treating depression in the real world—where it will inevitably be complicated by other factors. It also covers important associated topics including suicide, substance use, and disability.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Caring for Patients with Depression in Primary Care
Authors: David S. Kroll
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08495-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-08494-2Published: 18 August 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-08495-9Published: 17 August 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 113
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Primary Care Medicine, Psychiatry