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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... parents or spouses. Although we retained the basic structure of Falloon's and Liberman's family treatment, we substantially revised each of the modules to address the core problems, resistances, and psychological conflicts that ...
... parents. New case studies have been added to this second edition to illus- trate the FFT approach with teens. The ways in which the core clinical techniques (e.g., communication enhancement training) can be modi- fied to adapt to the ...
... parents , spouse , siblings , and chil- dren . In fact , as hospitalizations have become shorter and shorter , and as patients are discharged in quite unstable clinical states , the burden on the family has become considerable ( Perlick ...
... (parents or spouses) the 9-month, 21-session FFT protocol (psychoeducation, CET, and problem-solving training). All patients were treated with standard medications for bipolar disorder (either lithium carbonate, carbamazepine, or both ...
... parents or spouses, and who also received medications, were much less likely to relapse during the 2-year study than patients who received CM and medications. In fact, patients in FFT were three times more likely to finish the study ...