Depression — Positive Depression Evaluation — Clinical Pathway: Outpatient Behavioral Health and Primary Care

Depression Clinical Pathway — Outpatient Behavioral Health and Primary Care

Positive Depression Evaluation

From Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition
American Psychiatric Association, 2013

Types of Depressive Disorders

Major Depressive Disorder
  • Five or more depression symptoms have been present during the same 2-week period and represent a change from previous functioning
  • At least one of the symptoms is either (1) depressed or irritable mood or (2) loss of interest or pleasure.
  • The symptoms cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.
  • Episode not attributable to the physiological effects of a substance or to another medical condition.
  • Occurrence is not better explained by schizoaffective disorder, schizophrenia, schizophreniform disorder, delusional disorder, or other specified and unspecified schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders.
  • There has never been a manic episode or hypomanic episode.
Other Specified Depressive Disorder
  • Presentations in which symptoms characteristic of a depressive disorder that cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning predominate but do not meet the full criteria for any of the disorders in the depressive disorders diagnostic class.
    • Patient does not meet the criteria for a major depressive disorder