Additional Approaches to Treatment of Depression

To the Editor Dr Cuijpers provided a succinct summary of the many challenges faced by clinicians in the treatment and management of depression. Although depression is one of the most common psychiatric disorders, it is also one the most challenging to treat. I concur with Cuijpers ’ recommendations for management strategies that optimize what is already known about depression and its treatment and the need for further research on the causes of depression to guide the development of more effective treatments. However, another approach to achieving better treatment outcomes b egins with the recognition that some symptoms tend to respond well to most established depression treatments but some do not.
Source: JAMA - Category: General Medicine Source Type: research