AUSTRALIA

 

Tiller JWG & Lyndon RW (2003). Electroconvulsive Therapy: An Australasian Guide. Victoria: Australian Postgraduate Medicine. A summary of the guidelines, “The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists’ Clinical Memorandum #12, Guidelines on the administration of electroconvulsive therapy” is available online.

 

 

 

BELGIUM

 

Sienaert P, De Fruyt J, Dierick M (2006). Elektroconvulsietherapie: Aanbevelingen voor de praktijk. Gent: Academia Press.
 

Sienaert P, De Fruyt J, Dierick M, Ansseau M (2007). Elektroconvulsivothérapie: Recommandations pour la pratique clinique. Gent: Academia Press.
 

 

BRITISH COLUMBIA

 

Mental Health Evaluation & Community Consultation Unit (2002)Electroconvulsive Therapy: Guidelines for health authorities in British Columbia. Available online

FRANCE

Agence Nationale d’Accréditation et d’Évaluation en Santé (ANAES). Recommandations pour la pratique clinique: Indications et modalités de l'electroconvulsivothérapie (1998). Available online.

 

THE NETHERLANDS

 

van den Broek WW, Huyser J, Koster AM et al (2000). Richtlijn Elektroconvulsietherapie. Amsterdam: Boom.

UNITED KINGDOM

 

Royal College of Psychiatrists (2005). The ECT Handbook (Second Edition): The third report of the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Special Committee on ECT. Council Report CR128. London: Royal College of Psychiatrists. Available online

 

National Institute of Clinical Excellence (2003). Guidance on the Use of Electroconvulsive Therapy. Technology Appraisal 59. London: NICE. Available online

 

UNITED STATES

 

American Psychiatric Association (2001). The Practice of Electroconvulsive Therapy: Recommendations for Treatment, Training and Privileging. Washington DC: American Psychiatric Association.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Practice Parameter for the use of electroconvulsive therapy with adolescents. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry, 2004, 43(12), 15211539. Available online.