The Treatment of Bipolar Disorder

Integrative Clinical Strategies and Future Directions

Eduard Vieta editor André F Carvalho editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:2nd Mar '17

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The Treatment of Bipolar Disorder cover

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.

As a clinical reference and as an advanced teaching tool, the book is second only to an exhaustive period of reading all the studies ever written... As I began reading I was drawn in to reading it all, by the opportunity to learn experts approach to treatment in their special area of the common, but nonetheless complicated illness bipolar disorder. * Robert Freedman, M.D., American Journal of Psychiatry *

ISBN: 9780198801030

Dimensions: 233mm x 157mm x 31mm

Weight: 830g

544 pages