Treatment
DIAGNOSIS: BIPOLAR DISORDER
TREATMENT: GROUP PSYCHOEDUCATION FOR BIPOLAR DISORDER
BRIEF SUMMARY
Basic description: "Psychoeducation treatment involves providing patients with information about bipolar disorder and its treatment, with a primary goal being to improve adherence to pharmacological treatment by helping patients understand the biological roots of the disorder and the rationale for pharmacological treatments. Patients are also taught the early warning signs for episodes, and common triggers for symptoms. Psychoeducation interventions are typically—but not always—held in group format. The best tested approach consists of 21 group sessions (Colom & Vieta, 2006)."
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TREATMENT RESOURCES
TREATMENT MANUALS
Manual de psicoeducación para el trastorno bipolar (Colom & Vieta, 2004)
Psychoeducation manual for bipolar disorder (Colom & Vieta 2006)
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Structured group psychotherapy for bipolar disorder: The life goals program. Springer Publishing Company (Bauer & McBride, 2003)
CRITICAL STUDIES
A randomized trial on the efficacy of group psychoeducation in the prophylaxis of recurrences in bipolar patients whose disease is in remission (Colom et al., 2003)
Group psychoeducation for stabilised bipolar disorders: 5-year outcome of a randomised clinical trial (Colom et al., 2009)
A brief dyadic group based psychoeducation program improves relapse rates in recently remitted bipolar disorder: a pilot randomised controlled trial (D'Souza et al., 2010)
Group therapy for mood disorders: A meta-analysis (Janis et al., 2021)
Group psychoeducation in bipolar mood disorders–the influence on the cognitive representation of the illness. The results of the program:“Taming the bipolar affective disorder” (Maczka et al., 2014)
The effect of group psychoeducation program on medication adherence in patients with bipolar mood disorders: a randomized controlled Trial (Rahmani et al., 2016)
A comparison of the life goals program and treatment as usual for individuals with bipolar disorder (Sajatovic et al., 2009)