David J. Miklowitz

Bipolar Disorder (eBook, ePUB)

A Family-Focused Treatment Approach

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Family-focused psychoeducational treatment (FFT) is among a very small number of psychosocial treatments that have been found to be effective in multiple studies to improve the course of bipolar disorder. This indispensable guide describes how to implement FFT with adult and adolescent patients and their family members. Provided are practical procedures for helping families understand the nature of bipolar disorder, strengthen their communication skills, solve day-to-day problems, and reduce the risk and severity of relapse. The book incorporates state-of-the-art knowledge on the illness and its biological and psychosocial management. More than a dozen reproducible handouts are included.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Guilford Publications
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781606236499
• Artikelnr.: 48028847

Autorenporträt

David J. Miklowitz, PhD, UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Inhaltsangabe

I. Bipolar Disorder and Families: Clinical and Research Background
1. Bipolar Disorder: Why Family Treatment?
2. The Nature of Bipolar Disorder and Its Impact on the Family
3. Family and Social Factors in the Course of Bipolar Disorder
II. Conducting Family-Focused Treatment
4. Planning the First Encounter
5. The Functional Assessment
6. Family Psychoeducation: The Initial Sessions
7. Family Psychoeducation: Etiology, Treatment, and Self-Management
8. Family Psychoeducation: Dealing with Resistances
9. Communication Enhancement Training: Rationale and Mechanics
10. Communication Enhancement Training: Clinical Issues
11. Dealing with Family Problems
12. Managing Crises in Family-Focused Treatment
13. Termination