Family-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.
Table of Content
I. Bipolar Disorder and Families: Clinical and Research Background
1. Bipolar Disorder: Why Family Treatment?
2. The Nature of Bipolar Disorder and Its Impact on the Family
3. Family and Social Factors in the Course of Bipolar Disorder
II. Conducting Family-Focused Treatment
4. Planning the First Encounter
5. The Functional Assessment
6. Family Psychoeducation: The Initial Sessions
7. Family Psychoeducation: Etiology, Treatment, and Self-Management
8. Family Psychoeducation: Dealing with Resistances
9. Communication Enhancement Training: Rationale and Mechanics
10. Communication Enhancement Training: Clinical Issues
11. Dealing with Family Problems
12. Managing Crises in Family-Focused Treatment
13. Termination
About the author
David J. Miklowitz, Ph D, is Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, and Visiting Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom. He is author of The Bipolar Disorder Survival Guide and Living Well with Bipolar Disorder, for general readers, and several award-winning books for professionals, including Bipolar Disorder: A Family-Focused Treatment Approach. Dr. Miklowitz has published over 300 scientific articles and 70 book chapters. He has won Distinguished Investigator awards from the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation, the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance, the International Society for Bipolar Disorders, and the Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology. Dr. Miklowitz is one of the few psychologists to have received the Award for Research in Mood Disorders from the American College of Psychiatrists.
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