Author(s)

Deepak Kumar, Uday K. Sinha, Amit Khanna, Sujit Kumar Kar

Department of Clinical Psychology, Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences, Delhi, India.
Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences, Delhi, India.

The concept of Multidisciplinary approach is not new to Medical Science. It is an evolving concept that is widely appreciated and adopted in most of the disciplines of medicine. It’s rational and applicable in the management of Child and Adolescent Depression,which needs to be revisited focusing on the interplay of various contextual factors that are entwined and tend to affect the course of the illness. The limitations of any one mental health professional in envisioning all possible dimensions of Child and Adolescent Depression make this approach all the more important wherein Psychiatrists, Clinical Psychologists, Psychiatric Social Workers collaborate with each other and other allied professionals in the treatment and management of the disorder. India, being a heavily populated country, where multidisciplinary management approach is in a phase of expansion and is practiced in many leading institutes to meet the quality needs of patients. This article focuses on the Indian scene of multidisciplinary management approach in child and adolescent depression.

Child and Adolescent Depression; Multidisciplinary Approach; Indian Scene

Kumar, D. , Sinha, U. , Khanna, A. and Kar, S. (2013) Multidisciplinary approach in child and adolescent depression: Experience from a tertiary mental health institution in India. Open Journal of Psychiatry, 3, 8-14. doi: 10.4236/ojpsych.2013.33A002.