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nutritional Psychology / Lifestyle Medicine

lifestyle-based mental health care for major depressive disorder

The following resources were developed by the Food & Mood Centre at Deakin University and the Australasian Society for Lifestyle Medicine. They include up-to-date and evidence-based information on the management of Depression using a lifestyle-based approach and resources for consumers to learn about the evidence of various life-style based care to support mood. These resources were shared with permission.

• Clinical Practice Guidelines

• Guideline Overview for Clinicians

• Consumer Resource - Food & Mood

• Consumer Resource - Green & Blue Spaces

• Consumer Resource - Physical Activity

• Consumer Resource - Sleep

• Consumer Resource - Social Connection

• Consumer Resource - Mindfulness & Stress Management

Reference to Full Clinical Guidelines

Wolfgang Marx, Sam H. Manger, Mark Blencowe, Greg Murray, Fiona Yan-Yee Ho, Sharon Lawn, James A. Blumenthal, Felipe Schuch, Brendon Stubbs, Anu Ruusunen, Hanna Demelash Desyibelew, Timothy G. Dinan, Felice Jacka, Arun Ravindran, Michael Berk & Adrienne O’Neil (2023) Clinical guidelines for the use of lifestyle-based mental health care in major depressive disorder: World Federation of Societies for Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP) and Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine (ASLM) taskforce, The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry, 24:5, 333-386, DOI: 10.1080/15622975.2022.2112074.

Direct Link to the Food & Mood Centre Resources here