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Lifestyle-based mental health care for major depressive disorder
In collaboration with Deakin University’s Food & Mood Centre, ASLM have worked to develop clinical practice guidelines to provide clinicians with up-to-date, evidence-based information on the management of major depressive disorder (MDD) using lifestyle-based approaches. Accompanying these guidelines, we have also developed consumer resources to help those living with MDD understand the latest evidence into lifestyle-based care for MDD.
The Guidelines are based on a synthesis of current scientific evidence, rigorously evaluated using a systematic grading system, which determined the strength of recommendations.
The guidelines were published on 18 May 2022 and are available at the World Journal of Biological Psychiatry here.
Additional resources (click to download):
- Guideline overview for clinicians
- Consumer Resource - Food & Mood
- Consumer Resource - Physical Activity
- Consumer Resource - Sleep
- Consumer Resource - Social Connection
- Consumer Resource - Smoking Cessation
- Consumer Resource - Employement & Work
- Consumer Resource - Green & Blue Spaces
- Consumer Resource - Mindfulness & Stress Management