Depression, demoralisation or adjustment disorder? Understanding emotional distress in the severely medically ill

N O'Keeffe, G Ranjith - Clinical Medicine, 2007 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
As emotional distress is often seen as an understandable reaction to a severe or life-
threatening illness, clinicians are reluctant to make a diagnosis of depression and resort to …

Depression in the medically ill

JD Rosenblat, P Kurdyak, F Cosci… - Australian & New …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Depressive disorders are significantly more common in the medically ill
compared to the general population. Depression is associated with worsening of physical …

Depression in medically ill patients

S Rackley, JM Bostwick - Psychiatric Clinics, 2012 - psych.theclinics.com
“Depression” in medically ill patients is first and foremost a phenotype. Many underlying
etiologies may take a final common pathway of producing such a phenotype, but have …

An empirically derived taxonomy of common distress syndromes in the medically ill

DM Clarke, GC Smith, DL Dowe… - Journal of psychosomatic …, 2003 - Elsevier
Objective: Contemporary psychiatric classifications have not proved to be useful in the
understanding and care of people with physical illness. Distress syndromes are common …

Depression in physical illness

A Ruttley, S Reid - Psychiatry, 2006 - Elsevier
Symptoms of depression occur commonly in medical illness, yet it is not always clear at
which point such symptoms merit clinical attention. There is a common misperception that all …

A qualitative examination of the experience of 'depression'in hospitalized medically ill patients

DM Clarke, KE Cook, KJ Coleman, GC Smith - Psychopathology, 2006 - karger.com
Background: Research into depression in the medically ill has progressed without sufficient
attention being given to the validity, in this group, of the taxonomic categories. We aimed to …

[BOOK][B] Depression and the medically ill: an integrated approach

GG Rodin - 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
Discusses the relationship between depression and medical illness and the diagnosis and
management of depression in the medically ill. Covers methodological issues related to …

Depression in the medically ill: a common and serious disorder

HG Koenig - The International Journal of Psychiatry in …, 2000 - journals.sagepub.com
Medical illness, particularly when associated with chronic disability and dependency,
causes life changes that present an enormous challenge to the individual. This is especially …

Management of depression in medical patients: the role of clinical evaluation

GAFJ Guidib - Psychother Psychosom, 2023 - karger.com
Scott and associates [1] have performed a systematic review of the studies on trajectories of
depression and anxiety in chronic medical diseases. By means of metaanalytic procedures …

Depression in the medically ill. Critical issues in diagnostic assessment.

S von Ammon Cavanaugh - Psychosomatics, 1995 - europepmc.org
Diagnosing depression in the medically ill is a difficult diagnostic task that will not be
clarified appreciably by DSM-IV. The author reviews diagnostic validity as it relates to …