The Role of the Family in the Course and Treatment of Bipolar Disorder  

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Miklowitz, David J.

Jenis: Article from Journal - e-Journal
Dalam koleksi: Current Directions in Psychological Science vol. 16 no. 04 (Aug. 2007), page 192-196.
Topik: Family-Focused Treatment; Expressed Emotion; Psychosocial Treatment; Pharmacotherapy; Childhood Onset Bipolar Disorder
Fulltext: 05. The Role of the Family in the Course and Treatment of Bipolar Disorder.pdf (116.05KB)

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Bipolar disorder is a highly recurrent and debilitating illness. Research has implicated the role of psychosocial stressors, including high expressed-emotion (EE) attitudes among family members, in the relapse– remission course of the disorder. This article explores the developmental pathways by which EE attitudes originate and predict relapses of bipolar disorder. Levels of EE are correlated with the illness attributions of caregivers and bidirectional patterns of interaction between caregivers and patients during the post-episode period. Although the primary treatments for bipolar disorder are pharmacological, adjunctive psychosocial interventions have additive effects in relapse prevention. Randomized controlled trials demonstrate that the combination of family-focused therapy (FFT) and pharmacotherapy delays relapses and reduces symptom severity among patients followed over the course of 1 to 2 years. The effectiveness of FFT in delaying recurrences among adolescents with bipolar disorder and in delaying the initial onset of the illness among at-risk children is currently being investigated.

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