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.

About the Author
Michael Otto, Ph.D. is Professor at Center for Anxiety Disorders at Boston College in Cambridge, MA.Noreen Reilly-Harrington.Ph.D. is a doctor of psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.


Book Information
ISBN 9780195313345
Author Michael Otto
Format Paperback
Page Count 256
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 408g
Dimensions(mm) 249mm * 175mm * 15mm