Living with Bipolar Disorder: A Guide for Individuals and FamiliesUpdated Edition - Softcover

Otto, PhD Michael W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199782024 ISBN 13: 9780199782024

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA, 2011

Synopsis

Living with Bipolar Disorder is designed to help patients and their families develop the skills they need to be good consumers of treatment and to become expert partners in the management of this challenging disorder. Drawing on research documenting the strength of combining drug treatments with behavioral interventions for fighting bipolar disorder, the authors of this book take a skill-based, family-and-friends approach to managing the ups and downs commonly experienced with bipolar disorder. Readers will learn how to better recognize mood shifts before they happen, minimize their impact, and move on with their lives. Family members will learn how to recognize potential problems, provide encouragement, practice new coping skills, and understand what a loved one is going through. Living with Bipolar Disorder provides worksheets and forms to help readers reinforce skills and practices learned in therapy, as well as useful information about the details of living with bipolar disorder, advice on the best ways to avoid relapses, and strategies for anticipating problems. In this new edition, the authors have expanded the text to reflect the newest advances in research on the management of bipolar disorder, adding the latest in drug information, advice on selecting a therapist, a discussion of the challenges of transitioning from adolescence to adulthood with bipolar, managing stress, improving relationship and communication skills both with the family and with one's clinician, and more. Living with Bipolar Disorder offers a wealth of effective strategies to reduce the likelihood of episodes of depression or mania and maximize the enjoyment of life.

About this title

About the Author

Michael W. Otto is Director of the Translational Research Program at the Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders and Professor of Psychology at Boston University. Noreen A. Reilly-Harrington is a Clinical Psychologist and Instructor in Psychology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Robert O. Knauz is a Clinical Psychologist and Instructor in Psychology at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Aude Henin is Director of the Child CBT Program at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Assistant Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Jane N. Kogan is Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic. Gary S. Sachs is Director of the Bipolar Clinic and Research Program and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199782024
• ISBN 13: 9780199782024
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 152