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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... Schizophrenia Research (1987) and the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD; 1987), a Research Faculty Award from the University of Colorado (1998), and a Distin- guished Investigator Award from NARSAD ...
... schizophrenia. Goldstein had been the first to demonstrate the effectiveness of a short-term psycho- educational, crisis-oriented family intervention for schizophrenia patients (Goldstein, Rodnick, Evans, May, & Steinberg, 1978) and was ...
... Schizophrenia, which had for years been conducting studies on the role of family psychoeduca- tional treatment in combination with pharmacotherapy for schizophrenia patients. We adapted the structure provided by one of the treatments ...
... Schizophrenia and Depression, we were able to examine further the family processes associated with bipolar disorder and to develop and test through controlled experimental trials a new psychoeducational intervention, which we titled ...
... schizophrenia (for a review, see Pitschel-Walz, Leucht, Bäuml, Kissling, & Engel, 2001) and should include the core compo- nents of these approaches: psychoeducation, communication skills train- ing, and problem-solving skills training ...