Book contents
- Psychotherapy for Bipolar Disorders: An integrative approach
- Psychotherapy for Bipolar Disorders
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Collaborators
- Preface
- Part 1 An Introduction to Treatments
- Chapter 1.1 Introduction to Bipolar Disorders
- Chapter 1.2 Adjunctive Psychological Treatments in Adults with Bipolar Disorders
- Part 2 The Foundations of an Integrative Approach to Bipolar Disorders
- Part 3 An Integrative Approach to Bipolar Disorders
- Book part
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 1.2 - Adjunctive Psychological Treatments in Adults with Bipolar Disorders
from Part 1 - An Introduction to Treatments
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 October 2019
- Psychotherapy for Bipolar Disorders: An integrative approach
- Psychotherapy for Bipolar Disorders
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Collaborators
- Preface
- Part 1 An Introduction to Treatments
- Chapter 1.1 Introduction to Bipolar Disorders
- Chapter 1.2 Adjunctive Psychological Treatments in Adults with Bipolar Disorders
- Part 2 The Foundations of an Integrative Approach to Bipolar Disorders
- Part 3 An Integrative Approach to Bipolar Disorders
- Book part
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Considering the recurrent and chronic nature of bipolar disorder, optimal long-term management requires a preventive strategy that includes pharmacological treatments together with psychological therapies that have shown efficacy in bipolar disorder. Adjunctive psychological interventions, always as an added treatment to the pharmacological therapy, would ensure the effect of medication through the promotion of adherence to therapy regimen (MacDonald et al. 2016), which is often suboptimal in those with bipolar disorder (Levin et al. 2016), and would address other aspects that medication alone cannot reach.
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- Psychotherapy for Bipolar DisordersAn Integrative Approach, pp. 6 - 14Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019