This Therapist Guide outlines a 30-session cognitive-behavioural treatment for bipolar depression. It provides session-by-session instructions for helping clients decrease and prevent relapse. Bipolar disorder is extremely hard to manage and this program will help clients better prepare themselves for dealing with problems and high-risk situations. Treatment is comprised of four stages: a depression-focused phase (9 sessions), a treatment-contract phase, (4-sessions), a problem-list phase (13 sessions), and a well-being phase (4 sessions). This treatment also includes a component for families to help them understand the disorder and work together with both the therapist and the patient to get the best results from treatment.
Readership: Mental health professionals.
Michael Otto, Center for Anxiety Disorders, Boston University, USA, Noreen Reilly-Harrington, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA, Jane N. Kogan, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA, Aude Henin, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA, Robert O. Knauz, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA, and Gary S. Sachs, u
Introductory Information for Therapists Pre-treatment Assessment Phase 1 Sessions 1-9 Phase 2 Sessions 10-13 Phase 3 Sessions 14-26 Phase 4 Sessions 27-30
