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Guidelines for youth depression: time to incorporate new perspectives

Norman P Zimmerman
Med J Aust 2010; 193 (9): . || doi: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2010.tb04053.x
Published online: 1 November 2010

To the Editor: I cannot argue with the push by Hickie and McGorry for services for young people from 12 to 25 years of age who suffer from “depression”.1 But I question their sequencing of treatments model that pervades the beyondblue draft clinical practice guidelines about which they editorialise.

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