These groups usually focus on specific disorders, such as bipolar or eating disorders. Members of these support groups are often at different phases in dealing with their illnesses, and, therefore, the needs and contributions of individual members may vary greatly from meeting to meeting. Most su...
Turning to peers is important when going through treatment for bipolar disorder. Whether local or online, talking to your peers who are going through similar situations with their bipolar disorder can be comforting.
Mutifamily psychoeducation groups (MFPG) for families of children with bipolar disorder. Objectives: Multi-family psychoeducation groups (MFPG) have been developed and tested for adults, but not for children with bipolar disorder (BPD). We pres... Fristad,A Mary,Goldberg-Arnold,... - 《Bip...
bpHope KIDS is a place for bipolar family support for caregivers of children & teens with bipolar. Learn about the treatments for bipolar disorder & get family support.
I missed hearing about church-based support groups. When I searched for them on the Internet during the past hour, I found no popular church programs to care for people struggling with mental illness, though there are a handful of local examples here and there. ...
(2003). Family psychoeducation: An adjunctive intervention for children with bipolar disorder. Biological Psychiatry, 53, 1000–1008. Article PubMed Google Scholar Galanter, M., Dermatis, H., Egelko, S., & De Leon, G. (1998). Homelessness and mental illness in a professional- and peer...
Methods: Members of 85 bipolar families and 63 control subjects were administered clinical interviews for diagnosis (SCID) and two temperament assessments, the TEMPS-A and TCI-125. Subjects with BP, major depressive disorder, unaffected relatives, and controls were compared on each temperament scale ...
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Participating in family support groups organized for the families of individu- als with chronic psychiatric disease makes the experience easier and contributes to decreasing the burden and stress experienced by the families (Cook et al. 1999). During these programs, families can interact with other ...