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Annals of General Psychiatry BioMed Central Review Open Access Self-help interventions for depressive disorders and depressive symptoms: a systematic review Amy J Morgan and Anthony F Jorm* Address: Orygen Youth Health Research Centre, Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia Email: Amy J Morgan - ajmorgan@.au; Anthony F Jorm* - ajorm@.au * Corresponding author Published: 19 August 2008 Received: 8 April 2008 Accepted: 19 August 2008 Annals of General Psychiatry 2008, 7:13 doi:10.1186/1744-859X-7-13 This article is available from: /content/7/1/13 © 2008 Morgan and Jorm; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Research suggests that depressive disorders exist on a continuum, with subthreshold symptoms causing considerable population burden and increasing individual risk of developing major depressive disorder. An alternative strategy to professional treatment of subthreshold depression is population promotion of effective self-help interventions that can be easily applied by an individual without professional guidance. The evidence for self-help interventions for depressive symptoms is reviewed in the present work, with the aim of identifyi