doi:10.1155/2012/967302 Review Article Do We Really Know How to Treat a Child with Bipolar Disorder or One with Severe Mood Dysregulation? Is There a Magic Bullet? doi:10.1155/2012/967302 Review Article Do We Really Know How to Treat a Child with Bipolar Disorder or One with Severe Mood ...
For those with bipolar disorder, clinical recovery does not necessarily mean functional recovery, and the usual early age of onset may further reduce an individual's preparedness for employment. Two brief vignettes are used to discuss how occupational therapists can help their clients maintain their ...
Miklowitz: Well, if it's a very young child, we don't come in with all guns blazing, so to speak. You don't necessarily give the strongest medications. If it's unquestionably bipolar disorder, you're really seeing a kid that needs to be in the hospital, or he or she is suicidal,...
Bipolar disorder: Bipolar disorder: How to differentiate it How to differentiate it from other disorders from other disorders In the USA a diagnosis of bipolar disorder is made utilizing criteria from the recently updated Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, now ... SR Hart,SE ...
Bipolar disorder in children often is confused with attention deficit disorder, substance-induced mood disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, and conduct disorder. It is not uncommon for some of these disorders to be comorbid with pediatric bipolar disorder. This article provides the reader with a ...
Because factors contributing to the appearance of bipolar disorder are often genetic and chemical, a combination of medication and psychotherapy may be most effective. Three classes of medication are typically prescribed to someone with bipolar disorder, depending on the type and severity of the ...
Individuals with bipolar disorder experience emotion regulation difficulties, even during remission, but are able to effectively employ emotion regulation strategies when instructed. We hypothesized that this puzzling discrepancy might be due to their maladaptive emotion regulation choices. To test this hypoth...
to communicate with that person’s doctor and/or therapist. Sometimes people with bipolar disorder present themselves inaccurately while at the doctor’s, under-reporting their symptoms or, if they become paranoid when in crisis, intentionally hiding symptoms from their caregivers. Having someone who ...
If you have bipolar disorder and you're unhappy with the medication that you're currently on—perhaps you feel like it's not working well enough or maybe you're experiencing a side effect that you simply can't stand—remember that it's never a good idea to stop taking a medication cold...
Bipolar Affective Disorder (BPD) is a serious, recurrent psychiatric illness characterised by periods of mania or hypomania, and depression. The purpose of the audit was to assess whether patients presenting to primary care practices within our catchment area were being screened for BPD. Additionally...