OBJECTIVE Psychotherapy has long been recommended as adjunctive to pharmacotherapy for bipolar disorder, but it is unclear which interventions are effective for which patients, over what intervals, and for what domains of outcome. This article reviews randomized trials of adjunctive psychotherapy for bipolar disorder. METHOD Eighteen trials of individual and group psychoeducation, systematic ...

Introduction The course of dementia is accompanied by aggression, wandering, agitation, sexual and eating disorders, suicidal behavior (SB). Objectives Develop approbate a program medical psychological rehabilitation (MPRP) SB in patients with dementia. Methods It were treated 199 which 107 get cured according to the developed programs 92 people received traditional treatment. Results MPRP comb...

BACKGROUND Bipolar patients are at risk for relapses of their illness even when undergoing optimal pharmacotherapy. This study was performed to determine whether combining family-focused therapy (FFT) with pharmacotherapy during a postepisode interval enhances patients' mood stability during maintenance treatment. METHODS In a randomized controlled trial, 101 bipolar patients were assigned to...

Discussion: To date there is a lack of consensus on either the diagnostic criteria of TRBD or evidence-based guidelines for the treatment of TRBD. Adjunctive modafinil, pramipexole, tranylcypromine and vagus nerve stimulation have been tried but the response rate is variable. Family-focused treatment, group psychoeducation and interpersonal and social rhythm therapy have been tried in bipolar d...

Child Talks+ is a preventive intervention developed with the aim to assist mental health professionals in offering support children of parents problems and/ or addiction problems. This brief report presents intervention, which can be adopted by workers, social workers and other healthcare who are contact patients parents. Parents their entitled receive psychoeducation about parents’ Interventio...

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is the most common neurobehavioral disorder of childhood. In part 1 of this article, information regarding primary care assessment of ADHD was presented. Part 2 focuses on best practice guidelines for treatment once the diagnosis has been established. For most children, successful treatment of ADHD requires a multicomponent approach comprised of p...

BACKGROUND Few psychosocial interventions have been developed in China that are suitable for use in the community. AIMS To evaluate the effectiveness of the Chinese version of the Community Re-Entry Module (CRM; a module of a standardised, structured social skills training programme devised at the University of California, Los Angeles) for patients with schizophrenia compared with standard gr...