Objectives

•Know and understand the premium world guidelines for depression treatment from The Canadian Mood and anxiety treatment consortium

•Apply the guidelines and their changes to your individual practice

•Apply recommendations therein to lifestyle modification, complimentary treatments, and light therapy

•Apply the 3 most useful short term psychotherapies to treatment: the 5 Ws

•Know how long to treat depression

•Treat depression with the appropriate doses and adjuvants of somatic therapy