Common Mental Disorders Depression - New Zealand Doctor

Appendix G:
Management of common mental disorders
other than depression in adults
The scope of this guideline does not extend to the full evidence review on the
management of common mental disorders other than depression, but the following
resources may be helpful for practitioners who identify or suspect that patients have
common mental disorders other than depression.
Guidelines or topic reviews for managing anxiety and substance abuse in adults
in primary care can be accessed at the weblinks below.
Anxiety
Management of anxiety (panic disorder, with or without agoraphobia,
and generalised anxiety disorder) in adults, in primary, secondary and community
care, National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) April 2007, at:
http://guidance.nice.org.uk/CG22/guidance/pdf/English
Substance abuse
Drugs other than alcohol
Drug misuse and dependence: UK guidelines on clinical management (UK
Department of Health, 2007), at: http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/
Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_4009665
Alcohol
The identification and management of hazardous and harmful drinking, with or without
alcohol dependence, alcohol detoxification in primary care, and the maintenance
of abstinence following detoxification: topic review (National Health Service 2007:
based on the Review of the Effectiveness of treatment for alcohol problems by the
National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse (2006) and Guideline on the
management of harmful drinking and alcohol dependence in primary care by the
Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (2003), at: http://www.cks.library.nhs.uk/
alcohol_problem_drinking
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