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A 16-year-old boy has had a moderate depressive episode for five months. He has completed eight sessions of cognitive behavioural therapy with a psychologist and remains withdrawn, is failing Year 11, and still has passive thoughts of being dead with no plan and no access to means. He has no psychotic features and no history of elevated mood. He takes no other medicines and has no cardiac history. After a multidisciplinary review, he and his parents agree to add an antidepressant. Which one of the following should be prescribed?
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