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This website is for medical and paramedical professionals working in the field of spinal cord injuries. It contains learning modules for the whole team as well as for doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, assistive technologists, social workers, psychologists and peer counsellors. The modules are intended for medical and paramedical students and junior clinicians. Others who have yet not assimilated sufficient knowledge on comprehensive management.

Psychiatric Management of Depression

  1. Practice guideline for major depressive disorder in adults. American Psychiatric Association. The American journal of psychiatry 1993; 150: 1-26.
  2. Hancock KM, Craig AR, Dickson HG, Chang E, Martin J. Anxiety and depression over the first year of spinal cord injury: a longitudinal study. Paraplegia 1993; 31: 349-357.
  3. Trull TJ, Vergés A, Wood PK, Jahng S, Sher KJ. The Structure of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th Edition, Text Revision) Personality Disorder Symptoms in a Large National Sample. Personality disorders 2012.
  4. Clinical Practice Guidelines on Depression, Consortium on Spinal Cord Medicine, Paralyzed Veteran’s of America, 1998
  5. Paralyzed Veterans of America and Consortium for Spinal Cord Medicine Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Mental Health Disorders, Substance Use Disorders, and Suicide in Adults with Spinal Cord Injury (2020), USA