These guidelines currently refer to the private healthcare setting in South Africa with the expectation that various stakeholders (and hopefully policy makers and administrators) will make use of them. Practitioners are expected to use guidelines with caution and continue to be critical of approaches, maintaining their own level of expertise and keeping abreast of developments of evidence-based approaches within the field (Emsley et al., 2013).

References:

Emsley, R., & Seedat, S. (2013). The South African Society of Psychiatrists (SASOP) treatment guidelines for psychiatric disorders. South African Journal of Psychiatry, 19(3), 127–196. https://doi.org/10.4102/sajpsychiatry.v19i3.942