Treatment of depression in young people
TREATMENT OF DEPRESSION IN YOUNG PEOPLE
Treatment of depression in young people
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Date: December 21, 2014
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TREATMENT OF DEPRESSION IN YOUNG PEOPLE
Specialist mental health clinician attitudes:
Young people up to the age of 25years experience intricate conditions that include comorbid conditions, psychosocial issues and suicide risk. Therefore, a study of potential barriers to the use of evidence-based guidelines for youth depression is mandatory. Evidence-based guidelines are highly used in habitual clinical practice though its relevance in psychology is minimal. Furthermore, if the already existing care at both primary and secondary levels were to be applied, they would boost professional untimely interference mental health services for young people (Hetrik SE et al, 2011).
Title of the study and authors:
This study bears the title ‘What are specialist mental health clinician attitudes to guideline recommendations for the treatment of depression in young people?’ and the authors include: Hetrick, S. E., Simmons, M., Thompson, A. and Parker, A. G.
In this research the authors are trying to answer the following questions;
The research questions of this study include: whether there are potential barriers at the individual clinician level, the clinical level in terms of the presentation of young people and the service level. Secondly, the research tried to identify how each of the above levels causes barriers in terms of young people presentation. It also tries to find out specialist mental health clinician attitudes to guideline recommendations for the treatment of depression in young people.
Qualitative and quantitative research methods:
First, qualitative research used in this study, is mostly investigative while quantitative research is used to measure the crisis by generating arithmetic data. Secondly, qualitative research is used to achieve a sympathetic of fundamental issues, motivations and opinions. Thirdly, quantitative research is used to quantify attitudes and behaviors while qualitative research comes up with thoughts for potential quantitative research. Fourthly, quantitative data collection methods are more controlled as compared to qualitative data collection methods (International conference, 2010).
Whether the study is qualitative or quantitative:
In this study, the researcher used a qualitative study whereby they used a social constructionist perception using focus groups. These groups were carried out with all clinicians and were audio taped; transcribed and undertook a thematic scrutiny. Clinicians were interrogated on the barriers to implementing four main proposals from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence procedures (Hetrik SE et al, 2011).
Associating this study with a specific research area of psychology:
A study on “Attitudes of psychiatrists to evidence-based guidelines” which intended to study clinicians’ attitudes on utilizing evidence-based guidelines is closely associated to the above study. According to the results, clinical guidelines were preferred. Many people felt that guidelines were useful in humanizing patient care (Rees H. et al, 2002). Similarly, the outcome of the study in question showed an enormous need for larger investment in models of care for amalgamation of current primary and secondary care: This would facilitate specialist timely intercession mental health services for young people. Generally, the serious difficulties experienced by youths up to the age of 25 years undisputable. Both studies show the crucial need to provide a solution to these problems in terms of evidence based guidelines in mental health clinician and psychology respectively (Hetrik SE et al, 2011).
Ethical issues that were addressed in the article and the ethical principles applied. Additional ethical issues that apply but were not mentioned?
The main barrier at individual clinician level was a declared belief that the guidelines were irrelevant to the young people servers and had less proof to direct practice. Similarly, the major barrier with reference to the clinical staging was the relentlessness and intricacy of the presentation. A deficiency of correlation between primary and secondary level care was observed at the service level. This made sequencing interventions difficult, according to guideline recommendations (Hetrik SE et al, 2011). The ethical principles applied were spending in care models to make certain the incorporation between existing primary and secondary care. Additional ethical issues could be participants could be an excessively researched group and Issues of discretion and lack of inscrutability (Browne, J. C., & Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2001).
This study expresses the need to come up with clear evidence-based guidelines to deal with the issues facing young people. The possible barriers majorly exist at three levels: individual clinician level, the clinical level in terms of the presentation of young people and the service level. With more investment in models of care that brings both primary and secondary care together, and then a solution is inevitable.
Reference
United States. United States., Browne, J. C., & Los Alamos National Laboratory. (2001).Intellectual Freedom and the National Laboratories: 2000 Sigma Xi Forum New Ethical Challenges in Science and Technology, November 9-10, 2000, Albuquerque, New Mexico.”. Washington, D.C: United States. Dept. of Defense.
Rees, H., Sipos, A., Spence, M., & Harrison, G. (January 01, 2002). Attitudes of psychiatrists to evidence-based guidelines – A questionnaire survey. Psychiatric Bulletin, 26, 421-424.
Hetrick, S. E., Simmons, M., Thompson, A., & Parker, A. G. (November 01, 2011). What are specialist mental health clinician attitudes to guideline recommendations for the treatment of depression in young people?. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 45, 11, 993-1001.
International Conference on QQML, Katsirikou, A., Skiadas, C. H., & ASMDA International Society. (2010). Qualitative and quantitative methods in libraries: Theory and applications : proceedings of the International Conference on QQML2009, Chania, Crete, Greece, 26-29 May 2009. Singapore: World Scientific.
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