Description
Book SynopsisThe Wiley Concise Guides to Mental Health: Bipolar Disorder uses clear, highly accessible language to comprehensively guide the reader through the entire spectrum of bipolar and related disorders. This concise, informative reference provides a complete overview of the history of the field, diagnosis, treatment, research, emerging trends, and other critical information about bipolar disorder. Both pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions are thoroughly covered.
Like all the books in the Wiley Concise Guides to Mental Health Series, Bipolar Disorder features a compact, easy-to-use format that includes:
- Vignettes and case illustrations
- A practical approach that emphasizes real-life treatment over theory
- Resources for specific readers such as clinicians, students, or patients
Early chapters in
Bipolar Disorder lay out the descriptive and diagnostic issues for classic bipolar I disorder, the more subtle soft
Trade Review"As suggested in the preface, the text is easy to read. The chapters are also peppered with useful pearls about bipolar disorder, particularly regarding treatment approaches for non-medical mental health practitioners." (
Journal of Psychiatric Practice, January 2009)
"This is an excellent overview of bipolar illness...Treatment interventions including pharmacologic, psychotherapeutic, and psychosocial are explained clearly and concisely. I would highly recommend this book." (Chicago Psychiatry Associates, 2008)
"Quinn demonstrates that he is well versed and skillful in presenting the diagnosis and treatment of bipolar disorder in an organized and clinically relevant way. This text is a competent, thorough and clinically useful guide to the multiple aspects of bipolar diagnosis and treatment. It will be read satisfactorily by both medically trained mental health professionals and psychotherapists alike." (International Society for Bipolar Disorder, Fall 2007)
Table of ContentsSeries Preface ix
Preface by S. Nassir Ghaemi, MD, MPH xi
Acknowledgments xv
Section One: Epidemeology, Phenomenology, and Diagnosis
Introduction Bipolar Spectrum Illnesses: Common but Often Misdiagnosed and Inappropriately Treated 3
Chapter 1 An Overview of Bipolar Disorder and Its Diagnosis 11
Section Two: Differential Diagnosis and Comorbidity
Chapter 2 Differentiating Unipolar from Bipolar Depression 37
Chapter 3 Differentiating Bipolar Illness from Organic Illnesses and Other Psychiatric Disorders 59
Chapter 4 Comorbidity: Organic Illnesses, ADHD, Personality, Eating, Anxiety, and Impulse Control Disorders 79
Chapter 5 Comorbidity: Alcohol and Drug Abuse 95
Section Three: Treatment
Chapter 6 Pharmacologic Treatment of Mania and Hypomania 129
Chapter 7 The Problem of Bipolar Depression 179
Chapter 8 Psychosocial Treatments 223
Chapter 9 Nonpharmacologic Approaches 241
Chapter 10 Identification and Management of Suicide Risk 261
Chapter 11 Child and Early Adolescent Bipolar Disorder: An Emerging Diagnosis by Carolyn Colwell, LCSW 275
Chapter 12 Bipolar Disorder in Older Adults by Colin Depp, Ph.D 309
Chapter 13 A Multidimensional Approach to Helping Patients with Bipolar Disorder 321
Index 337
