This readable guide to the assessment and management of patients
with bipolar disorder can help physicians keep abreast of dramatic
and rapid advances of recent years and integrate them into their
practice. Handbook of Diagnosis and Treatment of Bipolar Disorders
emphasizes recent controlled studies and FDA-approved indications
and translates these data into the real world of clinical practice.
The contributions of the eleven chapter authors from Stanford
University reflect more than a decade of clinical research and
treatment undertaken at that institution, including advances in
diagnosis and interventions supported by controlled studies. They
provide crucial information regarding diagnosis, pharmacotherapy,
psychotherapy, and treatment of patients from special populations
-- such as children, women, and older adults -- and patients with
particular challenging illness course such as rapid cycling.
This is the first book to provide quantitative assessment of
potential benefit (number needed to treat) and risk (number needed
to harm) for all approved treatments for bipolar disorder,
providing clinicians with information needed to balance benefits
and risks in order to render individualized state-of-the-art,
evidence-based care. It describes all FDA-approved indications --
reviewing efficacy, safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics, illness
phase-specific dosing, and drug interactions. A chapter on
multiphase treatment strategy explains crucial illness transition
points and describes how these have been integrated with knowledge
of illness phase in mood disorders. The book then demonstrates the
relevance of this approach to therapeutics by providing: - An
overview of pharmacotherapy that covers the emergence of
evidence-based pharmacotherapy and number-needed-to-treat and -harm
analyses.- Guidelines to managing acute manic and mixed episodes
that include evidence-based assessments of lithium, divalproex,
carbamazepine, and second-generation antipsychotics.- Coverage of
acute major depressive episodes in bipolar disorders that outlines
four tiers of treatment for this most pervasive illness phase with
the fewest approved treatments.- Discussion of the longer-term
management of bipolar disorders, including reviews of controlled
trials of recently approved pharmacotherapies such as lamotrigine,
olanzapine, aripiprazole, and adjunctive quetiapine. - A review of
the use of mood stabilizers and second-generation antipsychotics,
often in combinations, as well as the controversial role of
adjunctive antidepressants in treating patients with rapid-cycling
bipolar disorders. - Description of important advances in
evidence-based adjunctive psychotherapeutic interventions in
bipolar depression, and bipolar maintenance treatment.
Comprehensive in scope, yet readily accessible for application
to clinical practice, the book includes summary tables,
quick-reference lists of clinical pearls, and case studies to make
its content more relevant. Handbook of Diagnosis and Treatment of
Bipolar Disorders is the ideal source for integrating recent
research into everyday practice.
General
Imprint: |
American Psychiatric Publishing Inc
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
October 2009 |
First published: |
August 2009 |
Editors: |
Terence A. Ketter
|
Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 44mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
768 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-58562-313-6 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
1-58562-313-X |
Barcode: |
9781585623136 |
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