Bipolar Disorder: A Family-Focused Treatment ApproachFamily-focused psychoeducational treatment (FFT) is among a very small number of psychosocial treatments that have been found to be effective in multiple studies to improve the course of bipolar disorder. This indispensable guide describes how to implement FFT with adult and adolescent patients and their family members. Provided are practical procedures for helping families understand the nature of bipolar disorder, strengthen their communication skills, solve day-to-day problems, and reduce the risk and severity of relapse. The book incorporates state-of-the-art knowledge on the illness and its biological and psychosocial management. More than a dozen reproducible handouts are included. |
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... family conflict. But it was unclear to me, and to others at the time, whether features of the patient's family ... members' emotional reactions to these stances by the patients, stood out to us as key features of the patients' and family ...
... family processes associated with bipolar disorder and to develop and test through controlled experimental trials a ... members, usually parents or spouses. Although we retained the basic structure of Falloon's and Liberman's family ...
... family members who are try- ing to adapt to this lifelong condition . I also describe how , based on both my and others ' research and clinical experience , they can benefit from a psychoeducational , family - focused treatment ( FFT ) ...
... members. Thus, this issue must be addressed intensively and repeatedly in a family-focused pro- gram. Family psychoeducation has to address this issue at two levels: at a cognitive level, by providing important information about the ...
... members do not recognize an association between life events inside or outside the family and the onset of an illness episode. As discussed in subsequent chapters, life events (such as Stewart's change in job duties) often interact with ...