Guidelines for Clinical Practice

The Food & Mood Centre, along with the Australasian Society for Lifestyle Medicine have worked to develop clinical practice guidelines to provide clinicians with up-to-date, evidence-based information on the management of major depressive disorder (MDD) using lifestyle-based approaches. Accompanying these guidelines, we have also developed consumer resources to help those living with MDD understand the latest evidence into lifestyle-based care for MDD. The Guidelines are based on a synthesis of current scientific evidence, rigorously evaluated using a systematic grading system, which determined the strength of recommendations.

In the below videos Dr Sam Manger discusses the need for a whole-of-person approach to mental and physical health care, and Dr Wolfgang Marx discuss the rigorous process used to develop the clinical guidelines.

Resources Mentioned:

The 2020 Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists Clinical Practice Guidelines for Mood Disorders

RANZCP CPD accredited Lifestyle Medicine for Mental Health Services: Life and Mind online course

In the below videos Prof Adrienne O’Neil discusses how you can learn more and get involved with ongoing research at the Food & Mood Centre, and Megan Pilon explains the benefit of using the lifestyle-based mental health care in psychological practice.

Resources Mentioned:

RACGP and BSLM CPD accredited Introduction to Nutritional Psychiatry: Nutri-Psyche online course

Free online course: Food and Mood: Improving Mental Health through Diet and Nutrition

Contact the Food & Mood Centre if you are interested in participating in or supporting our research

Clinical and cost-effectiveness of remote-delivered, online lifestyle therapy versus psychotherapy for reducing depression: results from the CALM non-inferiority, randomised trial