PSYCHOLOGICAL TREATMENT OF BIPOLAR DISORDER
Sheri L. Johnson and Robert L. Leahy (Editors)
Guilford Press, 2004
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
• Gain an understanding of the diagnostic, social, and clinical issues involved in providing therapy for Bipolar Disorder (BD)
• Learn psychosocial approaches to supplement medication management
• Learn about psychosocial functioning and predictors of symptoms
• Learn about differential diagnosis and assessment of adult BD
• Learn what BD is most frequently diagnosed as
• Learn how to distinguish between mania and hypomania
• Learn about the “broad phenotype” of BD
• Learn some of the benefits of using the newer (atypical) antipsychotics in the treatment of BD
• Learn about Family-Focused Treatment (FFT) and some of its benefits
• Learn therapeutic ways of coping with denial of illness
Sheri L. Johnson, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Miami. Her work has been funded by the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression and by the National Institute of Mental Health, and her findings have been published in a number of journals, including the Journal of Abnormal Psychology and the American Journal of Psychiatry.
Robert L. Leahy, Ph.D., is President of the International Association for Cognitive Psychotherapy, founder and director of the American Institute for Cognitive Therapy in New York City, and Clinical Associate Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at Cornell University Medical School. He is the author or editor of Overcoming Resistance in Cognitive Therapy, Treatment Plans and Interventions for Depression and Anxiety Disorders (with Stephen J. Holland), and Roadblocks in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, among many other publications.
11 CE credits; 314 pages
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