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Psychotic depression treatment
Patients with psychotic depression are the most severely depressed, and they respond poorly to antidepressants alone. Two treatments are effective: combined use of antidepressant and antipsychotic drugs, and electroconvulsive therapy. Combining some of the newer antidepressants, particularly the SSRIs, with antipsychotics should be done with caution as inhibition of the liver cytochrome enzymes can raise […]
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Treatment for Suicide Attempt
People who attempt suicide and have a mental health problem may benefi t from treatment of this disorder regardless of its infl uence on their mood or behaviour. They may also benefi t more directly from addressing factors that contributed to their suicide attempt. One way through which this can be achieved is by developing […]
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Sample Treatment Plan Major Depression
Here is a Sample Treatment Plan Major Depression. Mrs V was an extremely overweight woman who worked as a nurse. Some years before her referral, she had married an ex-patient whom she had nursed with multiple sclerosis. He had since died. Following his death she had experienced a signifi cant period of depression and had […]
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Treatment for Major Depressive Disorder
Biological interventions Antidepressants There are now three types of antidepressant in general use that impact on serotonin levels: tricylics, SSRIs and SNRIs. A third group of antidepressants, known as monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs) proved reasonably effective, achieving clinically signifi cant changes in about 50 per cent of the people prescribed them. However, the dangers associated […]
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Treatment Strategies for OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder)
Behavioural and cognitive behavioural approaches Behavioural treatment of OCD typically involves exposure and response prevention. In this, the individual is exposed to their feared stimulus, frequently in a graded manner, and then helped to prevent avoidance through their use of escape rituals: ‘contaminating’ hands and not washing them, and so on. This is thought to […]
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Treatment for depression:how to treat depression
Much depressive illness of all types is successfully treated in primary care. The main reasons for referring depressed patients to secondary mental health services are that the condition is severe, failing to respond to treatment, complicated by other factors (such as personality disorder) or presents particular risks. The presence of agitation has been shown to […]
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How to treatment of panic disorder
Cognitive behavioural interventions Some of the most successful treatment programmes for panic disorder have been based onClark’s aetiological model. Clark et al. (1994), for example, developed a two-phase treatment approach. The first phase involved teaching clients the cognitive model of panic. The second involved three elements: relaxation to reduce physiological arousal at the time of […]
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Who needs psychological treatment?
Before we can begin to describe and evaluate the different types of treatment that are available for mental disorder, it is essential to consider first what exactly we mean by ‘mental disorder’ or ‘abnormality’. Despite the fact that most cultures have acknowledged the existence of mental problems in some form, there are considerable discrepancies between […]
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Social phobia diagnosis and psychological treatment
Social phobia is a persistent fear of performing in social situations, especially where strangers are present or where the person fears embarrassment. Patients fear that others will think them stupid, weak or crazy, and exposure to the feared situation provokes an immediate anxiety attack. Patients recognise that their fear is excessive, but their anxiety and […]
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How to treatment of generalized anxiety disorder
Cognitive behavioural treatment Behavioural treatments of generalized anxiety disorder initially involved exposure to feared situations combined with response prevention – much as in the treatment of phobias. In this, the individual is exposed to their feared situations, frequently in a graded manner starting with the least feared. On each occasion, they remain near the feared […]
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