Primary health care | Outpatient psychiatric care | Psychiatric hospital |
---|---|---|
Mild or moderate acute depression | Severe depression | Psychotic depression |
Moderate depression and severe comorbidity | Serious risk of suicide | |
Self-destructive behaviour | Severe depression and incapacity | |
Treatment-resistant depression | ||
Depression and long-term (> 2 months) inability to work |
Treatment | Mild | Moderate | Severe | Psychotic |
---|---|---|---|---|
Internet-mediated IT-assisted therapies (online therapies) | + | + | - | - |
Psychotherapies | + | + | (+) | - |
Antidepressants (see also Pharmacological Treatment of Depression) | + | + | + | + |
Concomitant antidepressant and antipsychotic medication | - | - | - | + |
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) | - | - | + | + |