Psychosocial Interventions for Bipolar II Disorder

Psychosocial Interventions for Bipolar Disorder

Psychosocial treatment and interventions for bipolar disorder: a systematic review

BACKGROUND Bipolar disorder (BD) is a chronic disorder with a high relapse rate, significant general disability and burden and with a psychosocial impairment that often persists despite pharmacotherapy. This indicates the need for effective and affordable adjunctive psychosocial interventions, tailored to the individual patient. Several psychotherapeutic techniques have tried to fill this gap, ...

Psychosocial interventions and medication adherence in bipolar disorder

Recent research has indicated that psychosocial interventions can have a valuable role in reducing the substantial psychosocial disability associated with bipolar disorder. Randomized controlled trials of these interventions indicate that improvements are seen in symptoms, psychosocial functioning, and treatment adherence. These interventions, systematically presented in the form of standardize...

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 interventions for the prevention of relapse in bipolar disorder: systematic review of controlled trials.

BACKGROUND Pharmacological interventions alone do not provide sufficient benefit for some individuals with bipolar disorder. AIMS To determine the effectiveness of psychosocial interventions for the prevention of relapse in bipolar disorder. METHOD A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised or quasi-randomised controlled trials were conducted. RESULTS Cognitive-behavioural therap...