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Psychoeducation Manual for Bipolar Disorder

By Francesc Colom , Eduard Vieta

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2006
ISBN
0521683688, 9780521683685, 9780511349478
Google Books ID
ujxMCK0cKswC
Open Library ID
OL7751893M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1011 kB (1035004 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
238\238
Topic
Education
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Although the mainstay of bipolar therapy is drug treatment, psychoeducation is a technique that has proven to be very effective as an add-on to medication, helping to reduce the number of all types of bipolar recurrences and hospitalization. The object is to improve patients' understanding of the disorder and therefore their adherence to pharmacotherapy. Based on the highly successful, evidence-based Barcelona program, this book is a pragmatic, therapists' guide for how to implement psychoeducation for bipolar patients. It gives practical guidance for how to conduct a psychoeducation group, using sessions and cases drawn from the Barcelona Psychoeducation Program. Moreover, it provides the reader with a great amount of practical tips and tricks and specific techniques to maximize the benefits of bipolar psychoeducation. The authors formed the first group to show the efficacy of psychoeducation as a maintenance treatment and have a long history of performing bipolar psychoeducation.

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