There is growing evidence of an escalation of depression in young people. In light of this, schools are increasingly being confronted with the challenge of how to best manage students with depressive disorders. Such management includes consideration of the academic, behavioural, social and emotional implications of the disorder. This article provides school practitioners and management with a review of what constitutes ‘best practice’ in school management of students with depressive disorders. It adopts the mental health intervention framework of the Institute of Medicine, considering how school-based intervention occurs across the four domains of mental health promotion, prevention, case identification and treatment, as well as maintenance of students with or at-risk of depression. It provides a checklist for practitioners at each stage of the Institute of Medicine intervention spectrum. Moreover, it takes the view that best practice in psychology is always evidence-based practice, although discerning a clear path through the available research is not always obvious.

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走向抑郁症学生学校管理的最佳实践

越来越多的证据表明年轻人的抑郁症正在升级。有鉴于此，学校越来越面临如何最好地管理患有抑郁症的学生的挑战。这种管理包括考虑疾病的学术、行为、社会和情感影响。本文为学校从业者和管理人员提供了对抑郁症学生学校管理中“最佳实践”构成的回顾。它采用了医学研究所的心理健康干预框架，考虑了基于学校的干预如何在心理健康促进、预防、病例识别和治疗以及对患有抑郁症或有抑郁症风险的学生的维持四个领域进行。它为医学研究所干预范围的每个阶段的从业者提供了一份清单。此外，它认为心理学的最佳实践始终是基于证据的实践，尽管通过现有研究辨别出一条清晰的道路并不总是显而易见的。