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A clinical perspective on workplace depression: current and future directions
1Private Practice, Sebring, Florida, and Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD, USA. gmcaruso@comcast.net
Objective:
To identify and propose potential solutions to challenges encountered by clinical and consulting occupational and environmental medicine practitioners in the management of workplace depression.
Method:
A review of English-language medical literature from 1960 to the present.
Results:
Numerous consequences and challenges to clinical management of workplace depression are recognized. Several potential present and future roles of the practitioner--in prevention, initial recognition and management, appropriate referral, care integration, stakeholder advocacy and education, and administration--are identified, and specific interventions are proposed and explored.
Conclusion:
Numerous opportunities exist for clinical and consulting practitioners to intervene to improve the current management of workplace depression.
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