A clinical perspective on workplace depression: current and future directions.
OBJECTIVE
To identify and propose potential solutions to challenges encountered by clinical and consulting occupational and environmental medicine practitioners in the management of workplace depression.


METHODS
A review of English-language medical literature from 1960 to the present.


RESULTS
Numerous consequences and challenges to clinical management of workplace depression are recognized. Several potential present and future roles of the practitioner--in prevention, initial recognition and management, appropriate referral, care integration, stakeholder advocacy and education, and administration--are identified, and specific interventions are proposed and explored.


CONCLUSIONS
Numerous opportunities exist for clinical and consulting practitioners to intervene to improve the current management of workplace depression.
Caruso
Garson M
GM
Private Practice, Sebring, Florida, and Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD, USA. gmcaruso@comcast.net
D003863:Depression / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D009787:Occupational Medicine / Q000639:trends*; D012017:Referral and Consultation / Q000639:trends*; D017132:Workplace / Q000523:psychology*