Mastering Bipolar Disorder Diagnosis and Treatment: A Comprehensive Guide

This authoritative handbook, written by renowned expert Terence A. Ketter, provides a comprehensive guide to the assessment and management of patients with bipolar disorder. The book is designed to help physicians stay up-to-date with the latest research and integrate it into their practice.

Stay Current with the Latest Advances

In recent years, there have been rapid and dramatic advances in the diagnosis and treatment of bipolar disorder. This handbook emphasizes recent controlled studies and FDA-approved indications, translating these data into real-world clinical practice.

Expert Insights from Stanford University

The contributions of the eleven chapter authors from Stanford University reflect over a decade of clinical research and treatment experience. They provide crucial information on diagnosis, pharmacotherapy, psychotherapy, and treatment of patients from special populations, including children, women, and older adults.

Quantitative Assessment of Treatment Benefits and Risks

This book is the first to provide a quantitative assessment of potential benefit (number needed to treat) and risk (number needed to harm) for all approved treatments for bipolar disorder. This essential information enables clinicians to balance benefits and risks, rendering individualized, state-of-the-art, evidence-based care.

Comprehensive Coverage of FDA-Approved Indications

The handbook reviews efficacy, safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics, illness phase-specific dosing, and drug interactions for all FDA-approved indications. 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.

A Holistic Approach to Therapeutics

The book provides a comprehensive overview of pharmacotherapy, including evidence-based assessments of lithium, divalproex, carbamazepine, and second-generation antipsychotics. It also covers the management of acute manic and mixed episodes, acute major depressive episodes, and longer-term management of bipolar disorders.

Adjunctive Psychotherapeutic Interventions and Maintenance Treatment

The handbook discusses important advances in evidence-based adjunctive psychotherapeutic interventions in bipolar depression and bipolar maintenance treatment. It also reviews 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.

A Practical Resource for Clinicians

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 and useful.

Handbook of Diagnosis and Treatment of Bipolar Disorders is the ideal source for integrating recent research into everyday practice, providing clinicians with the knowledge and tools needed to deliver exceptional patient care.