Full Description
Bipolar disorder is a chronic and debilitating mental illness affecting a significant proportion of the world's population. It is associated with significant impairments in health-related quality of life and psychosocial functioning, and has significant illness-related morbidity and heightened mortality rates due to medical comorbidities and suicide. The management of this disorder requires a complex combination of pharmacological and psychosocial interventions which can be challenging for clinicians.
Written by world experts in the field of bipolar disorder, The Treatment of Bipolar Disorder: Integrative Clinical Strategies and Future Directions provides readers with a concise and comprehensive guide to the integrative management of bipolar disorder. This resource contains 31 chapters on the various management choices available, from both established and novel treatment areas, such as psychoeducation, psychotherapeutic interventions, neuromodulatory approaches and novel therapeutic targets.
The complexity and diversity of the management choices available makes this a continually evolving field and necessitates forward thinking. By both discussing the current management of bipolar disorder, and the future developments available, this resource provides all clinicians working with patients with bipolar disorder an up-to-date and reflective guide to its management and what the future holds.
Contents
1: Gin S. Malhi and Yulisha Byrow: The current classification of bipolar disorders
2: Gordon Parker and Amelia Paterson: Should the bipolar disorders be modelled dimensionally or categorically?
3: Michael Berk & Ajeet Singh - Singh AB, Eyre HA, Callaly E, Berk M: The treatment of bipolar disorder on its early stages: challenges and developments.
4: Bernardo Ng and Mauricio Tohen: Evidence-based treatment of mania
5: Sarah Kittel-Schneider: The treatment of bipolar mixed states
6: Konstantinos N. Fountoulakis and Dimos Dimellis: The treatment of rapid cycling bipolar disorder
7: Mark A Frye, Paul E. Croarkin, Marin Veldic, Malik M Nassan, Katherine M Moore, Simon Kung, Susannah J. Tye, and William V. Bobo: Evidence-based treatment of bipolar depression
8: Dina Popovic and Eduard Vieta: Evidence-based maintenance treatment of bipolar disorder
9: Lakshmi N. Yatham and Muralidharan Kesavan: The treatment of type II bipolar disorder
10: Giulio Perugi, Giulia Vannucchi and Lorenzo Mazzarini: The treatment of Cyclothymia
11: Jan Scott: Psychological interventions for early stage Bipolar Disorder
12: María Reinares: Psychotherapeutic interventions for bipolar disorder
13: Francesc Colom: The role of psychoeducation in the management of bipolar disorder
14: Carla Torrent, Caterina del Mar Bonnin and Anabel Martinez-Arán: Functional remediation therapy for bipolar disorder
15: Sabrina C. da Costa, Joao L. de Quevedo, André F. Carvalho: Predominant polarity, polarity index and treatment selection in bipolar disorder
16: Zoltán Rihmer, Xénia Gonda, and Péter Döme: The assessment and management of suicide risk in bipolar disorder
17: Gustavo H. Vázquez, Alberto Forte, Sebastián Camino, Leonardo Tondo,and Ross J. Baldessarini: Treatment implications for bipolar disorder co-occurring with anxiety syndromes and substance-abuse
18: Anna I. Guerdjikova, Paul E. Keck, Jr., and Susan L. McElroy: The impact of psychiatric comorbidity in the treatment of bipolar disorder: focus on eating disorders and ADHD
19: Nefize Yalin, Danilo Arnone and Allan Y. Young: Bidirectional relationships between general medical conditions and bipolar disorder: treatment considerations
20: Danielle Balzafiore, Thalia Robakis, Sarah Borish, Vena Budhan, Natalie Rasgon: The treatment of bipolar disorder in women
21: Phillip Hazell: The treatment of bipolar disorder in children and adolescents
22: Gilberto S. Alves, Felipe Kenji Sudo, and Johannes Pantel: The treatment of bipolar disorder in the eldery
23: Salih Selek, Ives C. Passos Jair C. Soares: The management of treatment-resistant bipolar disorder
24: Flavio Kapczinski & Ives Cavalcante Passos: Staging and neuroprogression in bipolar disorder: treatment implications
25: Vicent Balanzá-Martínez, Sofia Brissos, Maria Lacruz, Rafael Tabarés-Seisdedos: Pharmacotherapy of bipolar disorder: impact on neurocognition
26: Kamilla W. Miskowiak & Lars Vedel Kessing: Cognitive enhancement in bipolar disorder: current evidence and methodological considerations
27: Roumen Milev: The role of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in bipolar disorder treatment
28: Andre Russowsky Brunoni, Bernardo de Sampaio Pereira Júnior, Izio Klein: Neuromodulatory approaches for bipolar disorder: current evidences and perspectives
29: Arun V. Ravindran and Tricia L. da Silva: The role of complementary and alternative therapies for the management of bipolar disorder
30: Ioline D Henter and Rodrigo Machado-Vieira: Novel therapeutic targets for bipolar disorder
31: Chiara Fabbri and Alessandro Serretti: The treatment of bipolar disorder in the era of personalized medicine: myth or promise?
