Depression: PHQ-9 and CES-D

To assist the clinician in making the diagnosis of depression. To quantify depression symptoms and monitor severity.

• Major Depression Inventory
• Geriatric Depression Scale
• HAM-D
• Depression Anxiety Stress Scale folder
• PHQ-9 Depression (1-4 minimal, 5-9 mild, 10-14 moderate, 15-19 moderately severe, 20-27 severe)
• Level 2—Depression—Adult (PROMIS Emotional Distress—Depression—Short Form)
  
• Severity Measure for Depression—Adult (Patient Health Questionnaire [PHQ-9])
  

• Take the PHQ-9 https://tinyurl.com/yxadns95 and work on a plan https://tinyurl.com/y6hlomak
• Burns Depression
• Goldberg Depression

Reduce PHQ-9 symptoms (loss of interest, feeling depressed/hopeless, sleep difficulty, low energy, poor appetite/overeating, feeling bad about self or failure, poor concentration, moving slowly or restless, thoughts of suicide or self-harm) from nearly every day.

CES-D

Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale for Children (CES-DC) (google.com)

GOALS

• Decrease ACORN symptom for "UNHAPPY" from very often to sometimes, maintain 3 months. 
• Depressed Mood improved from _____ to ____ 1 worst -10 best scale sustained for ___ days, weeks or months 
• Depressed Mood reduced from ___/7 days per week to ____/7 days per week sustained for ___ days, weeks or months
• Decrease PHQ-9 symptom for "DOWN/DEPRESSED" from very often to sometimes, maintain 3 months.
• Client will score 20 or below on the Beck Depression Inventory for 5 consecutive sessions.
• Client's score on the PHQ-9 will be reduced from 20 currently to 10 or less, for 3 months.
• Client's depression severity will be reduced from 8 currently to 3 or less (based on self-report 1-10 scale), for 3 months.
• Decrease sadness from daily to 1-2 times per week for 3 weeks.
• Reduce depression from 6 to a 4 (on a 1-10 scale) sustained for 3 consecutive sessions
• Reduce depression from 6 to a 4 (on a 1-10 scale) sustained for 3 months
• Decrease ACORN symptom for "LOW ENERGY" from very often to sometimes, maintain 3 months.
• Fatigue/tiredness that cause even small tasks to take longer resolved or eliminate, frequency? sustained for ___ days, weeks or months
• Decrease PHQ-9 symptom for "TIRED/LOW ENERGY" from very often to sometimes, maintain 3 months.
• Decrease ACORN symptom for "DIFFICULTY GETTING ALONG WITH OTHERS" from very often to sometimes, maintain 3 months.
• Decrease ACORN symptom for "HOPELESS" from very often to sometimes, maintain 3 months.
• Decrease PHQ-9 symptom for "TROUBLE CONCENTRATING" from very often to sometimes, maintain 3 months.
• Poor concentration, mind going blank eliminated or reduced to less than ___ days per week sustained for ___ days, weeks or months
• Diminished ability to think or concentrate (easily distracted, memory difficulties) eliminated or reduced to less than ___ days per week sustained for ___ days, weeks or months