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Bipolar Disorder
Friday's Progress Notes - November 19, 1999
Mental Health Information - Vol. 3 Issue 44
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CONTENTS:
1. Practice guidelines for treatment of bipolar disorder.
2. Practice parameters for treatment of children and teens.
3. Bipolar disorder in youth.
4. Lithium in the treatment of mood disorders.
5. Depression and suicide resources.
6. Patient brochure on manic-depressive illness.
7. Additional clinical resources.
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1. AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION
Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Patients with Bipolar Disorder
The guideline
covers diagnosis, natural history, epidemiology, treatment principles and alternatives,
and summary of recommendations.
http://www.psych.org/clin_res/bipolar_revisebook_index.cfm
2. AMERICAN
ACADEMY OF CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY
Practice Parameters for the Assessment and Treatment of Children and Adolescents with
Bipolar Disorder
Treatment involves the combination of pharmacotherapy and adjunctive
psychosocial interventions with a focus on the amelioration of acute symptoms; the
prevention of relapse; the reduction of long-term morbidity; and the promotion of
long-term growth and development.
http://www.bpso.org/practice.htm
3. NATIONAL
INSTITUTE FOR MENTAL HEALTH
Child and Adolescent Bipolar Disorder
Research findings, clinical experience, and family accounts provide substantial evidence that bipolar disorder, also called manic-depressive illness, can occur in children and adolescents.
http://www.athealth.com/Consumer/disorders/BipolarYouth.html
4. MEDSCAPE
New Advances in the Use of Lithium
Lithium was introduced into psychiatry 50 years ago and remains a preferred treatment for acute mania and preferred prophylactic therapy for manic-depressive illness.
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/423109
5. FRIDAY'S PROGRESS NOTES
Suicide
This newsletter provides resources on the assessment and prevention of suicide.
http://www.athealth.com/Consumer/newsletter/FPN_3_14.html
6. NATIONAL INSTITUTE
OF MENTAL HEALTH
Bipolar Disorder
This is a patient brochure on bipolar disorder.
http://www.athealth.com/Consumer/disorders/Bipolar_1.html
7. FRIDAY'S PROGRESS NOTES
Bipolar Disorder
This newsletter provides additional clinical resources for bipolar disorder.
http://www.athealth.com/Consumer/newsletter/FPN_9_1.html
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