We hope this book will be a useful resource for anyone who is interested in the management of common mental health problems in the primary care setting. Anxiety and depression are common and often overlap, and patients who suffer from these symptoms are usually managed in primary care.
We have drawn on our clinical experience, working in primary and secondary care, and across the interface. We have used 'cases' of fictitious characters interlinked by living in one street to illustrate the breadth of problems under the umbrella of 'anxiety and depression', reflecting our professional experiences. We hope that this makes the book appealing to a broad range of readers, including students of health and social care professions, general practitioners and primary care nurses, and practitioners working in specialist care and the voluntary (or 'third') sector.
Above all, we would like this text to contribute to an improvement in the care of people with anxiety and depression in the future. Linda Gask Carolyn Chew-Graham

Contributors vii

Preface viii

Acknowledgements ix

List of Abbreviations x

1 Introduction: Anxiety and Depression 1

Linda Gask and Carolyn Chew-Graham

2 Anxiety and Depression in Children and Adolescents 5

Jane Roberts and Aaron Vallance

3 Anxiety and Depression in Adults 9

David Kessler and Linda Gask

4 Anxiety and Depression in Older People 15

Carolyn Chew-Graham and Cornelius Katona

5 Antenatal and Postnatal Mental Health 19

Carol Henshaw and James Patterson

6 Anxiety and Depression: Long-Term Conditions 23

Sarah Alderson and Allan House

7 Bereavement and Grief 27

Linda Gask and Carolyn Chew-Graham

8 Anxiety, Depression and Ethnicity 31

Waquas Waheed, Carolyn Chew-Graham and Linda Gask

9 Special Settings: The Criminal Justice System 35

Richard Byng and Judith Forrest

10 Brief Psychological Interventions for Anxiety and Depression 40

Clare Baguley, Jody Comiskey and Chloe Preston

11 Anxiety and Depression: Drugs 46

R. Hamish McAllister-Williams and Sarah Yates

12 Psychosocial Interventions in the Community for Anxiety and Depression 53

Linda Gask and Carolyn Chew-Graham

13 Looking After Ourselves 57

Ceri Dornan and Louise Ivinson

Appendix 1 60

Appendix 2 61

Appendix 3 63

Appendix 4 64

Appendix 5 65

Appendix 6 67

Appendix 7 68

Appendix 8 69

Index 77

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