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Mental Health Practice Guidelines

The below guidelines are meant for mental health professionals to use in their clinical practices. Please be aware that there are various authoring organizations. The NGC has summarized these guidelines. Links are provided to the original source within the guideline documents.

Alcohol Disorders

• Screening and behavioral counseling interventions in primary care to reduce alcohol misuse: recommendation statement.
• The management of harmful drinking and alcohol dependence in primary care. A national clinical guideline.
• Tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs: the role of the pediatrician in prevention, identification, and management of substance abuse.

Alzheimer's Disease

• Guidelines for Alzheimer's disease management.
• Non-pharmacologic management of agitated behaviors in persons with Alzheimer disease and other chronic dementing illnesses.

Anxiety Disorders

• Anxiety disorders in patients with HIV/AIDS. Mental health care for people with HIV infection.
• Anxiety disorders.

Attachment Disorders

• Practice parameter for the assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with reactive attachment disorder of infancy and early childhood.

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

• Attention deficit and hyperkinetic disorders in children and young people. A national clinical guideline.
• Diagnosis and management of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in primary care for school age children and adolescents.

Autistic Disorder

• Autistic spectrum disorders. Best practice guidelines for screening, diagnosis and assessment.
• Practice parameter: screening and diagnosis of autism. Report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology and the Child Neurology Society.

Bipolar Disorder

• Bipolar affective disorder. A national clinical guideline.
• Practice guideline for the treatment of patients with bipolar disorder (revision).

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

• Computerised cognitive behaviour therapy for depression and anxiety.

Cognitive Functions

• Assessing cognitive function.

Conduct Disorder

• Therapeutic foster care for the prevention of violence: a report on recommendations of the Task Force on Community Preventive Services.

Delirium

• Caregiving strategies for older adults with delirium, dementia and depression.
• Delirium: strategies for assessing and treating.
• Practice guideline for the treatment of patients with delirium.
• Screening for delirium, dementia, and depression in older adults.

Dementia

• Cognitive disorders and HIV/AIDS: HIV-associated dementia and delirium.
• Dementia.
• Management of patients with dementia. A national clinical guideline.

Depression

• Depression clinical practice guidelines.
• Depression in older adults.
• Depression.
• Detection of depression in the cognitively intact older adult.
• Practice guideline for the treatment of patients with major depressive disorder.
• Screening for depression: recommendations and rationale.

Eating Disorders

• Identifying and treating eating disorders.
• Practice guideline for the treatment of patients with eating disorders.
• Promotion of healthy weight-control practices in young athletes.

Electroconvulsive Therapy

• Guidance on the use of electroconvulsive therapy.
• Practice parameter for use of electroconvulsive therapy with adolescents.

Enuresis

• Practice parameter for the assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with enuresis.

HIV and Mental Health

• Psychiatric/mental status evaluations in primary care settings. Mental health care for people with HIV infection.
• The role of the primary care practitioner in assessing and treating mental health in persons with HIV. Mental health care for people with HIV infection.

Mental Retardation

• Clinical genetic evaluation of the child with mental retardation or developmental delays.

Music Therapy

• Evidence-based protocol. Individualized music.

Opiods

• Clinical guidelines for the use of buprenorphine in the treatment of opioid addiction.
• Medication-assisted treatment for opioid addiction in opioid treatment programs: Associated medical problems in patients who are opioid addicted.
• Medication-assisted treatment for opioid addiction in opioid treatment programs: Clinical pharmacotherapy.
• Medication-assisted treatment for opioid addiction in opioid treatment programs: Drug testing as a tool.
• Medication-assisted treatment for opioid addiction in opioid treatment programs: Initial screening, admission procedures, and assessment techniques.
• Medication-assisted treatment for opioid addiction in opioid treatment programs: Medication-assisted treatment for opioid addiction during pregnancy.
• Medication-assisted treatment for opioid addiction in opioid treatment programs: Patient treatment matching: Types of services and levels of care.
• Medication-assisted treatment for opioid addiction in opioid treatment programs: Phases of treatment.
• Medication-assisted treatment for opioid addiction in opioid treatment programs: Treatment of co-occurring disorders.
• Medication-assisted treatment for opioid addiction in opioid treatment programs: Treatment of multiple substance use.

Panic Disorder

• Clinical guidelines for the management of anxiety. Management of anxiety panic disorder, with or without agoraphobia, and generalised anxiety disorder) in adults in primary, secondary and community care.

Personality Disorders

• Personality disorders in patients with HIV/AIDS. Mental health care for people with HIV infection.

Postpartum Depression

• Interventions for postpartum depression.
• Postnatal depression and puerperal psychosis. A national clinical guideline.

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

• Post-traumatic stress disorder. The management of PTSD in adults and children in primary and secondary care.
• Trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder in patients with HIV/AIDS. Mental health care for people with HIV infection.

Psychoses

• Management of persons with psychoses.

Schizophrenia

• Practice guideline for the treatment of patients with schizophrenia. Second edition.
• Schizophrenia.

Sexual Dysfunction

• American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists medical guidelines for clinical practice for the evaluation and treatment of male sexual dysfunction: a couple's problem--2003 update.

Sleep Disorders

• Evaluating excessive sleepiness in the older adult.
• Practice parameters for the dopaminergic treatment of restless legs syndrome and periodic limb movement disorder.
• Practice parameters for the role of actigraphy in the study of sleep and circadian rhythms: an update for 2002.
• Practice parameters for using polysomnography to evaluate insomnia: an update.
• Sleep disorders.

Smoking

• Counseling to prevent tobacco use and tobacco-caused disease: recommendation statement.
• Recommendations regarding interventions to reduce tobacco use and exposure to environmental tobacco smoke.
• Smoking cessation in HIV-infected patients.
• Smoking cessation.
• Smoking cessation.
• Tobacco use prevention and cessation for adults and mature adolescents.
• Tobacco use prevention and cessation for infants, children and adolescents.
• Tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs: the role of the pediatrician in prevention, identification, and management of substance abuse.

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