Bipolar Disorder - Rehabilitation
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Social relationships as a decisive factor in recovering from severe mental illness.

29 Jun 2009 BACKGROUND: Recovery research often describes recovery from mental illness as a complex individual process. In this article a social perspective on recovery is developed. AIMS: To ascertain which factors people regard as decisive to their own ... Read more...

The REACT study: cost-effectiveness analysis of assertive community treatment in north London.

29 Jun 2009 OBJECTIVE: Assertive community treatment (ACT) is a key component of mental health care, but recent information on its cost-effectiveness is limited. This article provides a cost-effectiveness analysis of assertive community treatment and usual care ... Read more...

Bipolar disorder center for Pennsylvanians: implementing an effectiveness trial to improve treatment for at-risk patients.

29 Jun 2009 OBJECTIVE: Adolescents, elderly persons, African Americans, and rural residents with bipolar disorder are less likely than their middle-aged, white, urban counterparts to be diagnosed, receive adequate treatment, remain in treatment once identified, ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Bipolar Disorder - Rehabilitation'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Social relationships as a decisive factor in recovering from severe mental illness. 29 Jun 2009
• The REACT study: cost-effectiveness analysis of assertive community treatment in north London. 29 Jun 2009
• Bipolar disorder center for Pennsylvanians: implementing an effectiveness trial to improve treatment for at-risk patients. 29 Jun 2009
• Self-medication, bipolar disorders, and stimulant dependence. 30 May 2009
• Neuropsychiatric problems after traumatic brain injury: unraveling the silent epidemic. 29 Apr 2009
• The working alliance and employment outcomes for people with severe mental illness enrolled in vocational programs. 29 Apr 2009
• The behavioral organization, temporal characteristics, and diagnostic concomitants of rage outbursts in child psychiatric inpatients. 30 Mar 2009
• [Psycho-educative therapies for treating bipolar patients] 30 Mar 2009
• Burnard (2007): autoethnography or a realist account? 27 Feb 2009
• Family problems among recently returned military veterans referred for a mental health evaluation. 8 Feb 2009
• Perceived access to general medical and psychiatric care among veterans with bipolar disorder. 13 Jan 2009
• Phenomenology, socio-demographic factors and outcome upon discharge of manic and mixed episodes in hospitalized adolescents: a chart review. 4 Jan 2009
• The impetus of recovery. 30 Dec 2008
• A longitudinal study of the effects of childhood trauma on symptoms and functioning of people with severe mental health problems. 30 Dec 2008
• Psychosocial treatments for people with co-occurring severe mental illnesses and substance use disorders (dual diagnosis): a review of empirical evidence. 30 Dec 2008
• My journey to wellness. 30 Dec 2008
• Reversing criminalization. 30 Dec 2008
• Depression precipitated by alcohol use in patients with co-occurring bipolar and substance use disorders. 28 Dec 2008
• A 6-month, double-blind, maintenance trial of lithium monotherapy versus the combination of lithium and divalproex for rapid-cycling bipolar disorder and Co-occurring substance abuse or dependence. 28 Dec 2008
• Treatment of depressed bipolar patients with alcohol use disorders: plenty of room for improvement. 27 Oct 2008

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Technical information about 'Bipolar Disorder'

Definition: A major affective disorder marked by severe mood swings (manic or major depressive episodes) and a tendency to remission and recurrence.

Descriptor UI: D001714

Alternative terms: Bipolar Disorder; Bipolar Disorders; Disorder, Bipolar; Psychosis, Manic-Depressive; Psychosis, Manic Depressive; Manic-Depressive Psychosis; Manic Depressive Psychosis; Affective Psychosis, Bipolar; Bipolar Affective Psychosis; Psychoses, Bipolar Affective; Psychosis, Bipolar Affective; Psychoses, Manic-Depressive; Manic-Depressive Psychoses; Psychoses, Manic Depressive; Mania; Manias; Manic State; Manic States; State, Manic; States, Manic; Depression, Bipolar; Bipolar Depression; Manic Disorder; Disorder, Manic; Manic Disorders;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: F03.600.150.150;

History Note: 81(63)