Abstract
Depression is a mental stage which affects the quality of life in people around the globe. It's a phase in one's life characterized by low mood, reluctance toward performing activities which greatly affect behavior, thought process, short and long term feeling, temporary and permanent well being. A thorough search of the literature was carried out to identify studies investigating therapeutic interventions in treating patients with depression. All the studies were thoroughly searched for the relevant information contained in them. Electronic database, including Embase, Scopus, Pub Med, CINAHL, Web of science were searched for research articles published from the earliest of 2009 to latest of 2016 using keywords of "depression", "Physical therapy", "Therapeutic intervention", "pet therapy". The present study looked into various therapeutic interventions while writing the article. Earlier reported literatures have employed various interventions in treating adolescent, adults and geriatric populations with depression. Limited study have been performed on Pet therapy, the authors are directed to employ more time and efforts in studying new methods to treat depression.