Group-based psychosocial intervention for bipolar disorder

Group-based psychosocial intervention for bipolar disorder: randomised controlled trial.

BACKGROUND Psychosocial interventions have the potential to enhance relapse prevention in bipolar disorder. AIMS To evaluate a manualised group-based intervention for people with bipolar disorder in a naturalistic setting. METHOD Eighty-four participants were randomised to receive the group-based intervention (a 12-week programme plus three booster sessions) or treatment as usual, and follo...

Psychosocial Interventions for Bipolar Disorder

An evidence-based review of psychosocial treatments for bipolar disorder.

Because somatotherapy for bipolar disorder (BD) has led to only modest improvements in outcome in general clinical practice, increasing attention has been paid to psychosocial interventions as adjuvants to standard medical-model treatment. This article complements and extends other recent reviews of this area by (1) evaluating psychotherapy studies according to the evidence rating criteria of t...

Psychosocial Treatments in Bipolar Disorder

Bipolar disorder is a common and often disabling major mental illness. It accounts for a high proportion of idiopathic psychotic illnesses, and, together with psychotic disorders, the combined lifetime prevalence may exceed 3% of the general population. Their treatment has been revolutionized by modern pharmacotherapies in the past half-century (Baldessarini and Tarazi, in press). However, thes...

Psychosocial intervention as the additional therapy for bipolar affective disorder: a case report.

Psychosocial interventions have been shown to enhance pharmacotherapy outcomes in bipolar affective disorder (BAD). This article describes an application of psychosocial intervention as the additional therapy for BAD. In this case report we present the course of illness, psychological features and specific chronic stress of a patient with BAD. Following the recent guidelines, we applied the pha...