Family Therapy Approaches to Bipolar Disorder

Book section

Authors: Miklowitz, D

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Host title: Bipolar Disorder: Clinical and Neurobiological Foundations
• Pages: 443-452
• Publication date: 2010-08-13
• DOI: 10.1002/9780470661277.ch34
• ISBN: 9780470721988
• Keywords: Problem solving, families taught - identify specific areas of disagreement, generate and evaluate solutions and implement solutions; Clinicians, emotional support for parents and clinical referrals - as appropriate; FFT, effective in stabilizing bipolar mood symptoms and delaying recurrences and rehospitalizations; Family psychoeducation to bipolar disorder (BD); Family therapy approaches to bipolar disorder; Expressed emotion (EE), construct well-studied in schizophrenia and major depressive disorder; Communication enhancement training (CET) sessions; Family-Focused Treatment (FFT) - in laboratories at University of California, Los Angeles; Objectives of Family-Focused Treatment (FFT); Systematic Treatment Enhancement Program for Bipolar Disorder (STEP-BD)