Main description:

This innovative manual presents a powerful approach for helping people manage bipolar illness and protect against the recurrence of manic or depressive episodes. Interpersonal and social rhythm therapy focuses on stabilizing moods by improving medication adherence, building coping skills and relationship satisfaction, and shoring up the regularity of daily rhythms or routines. Each phase of this flexible, evidence-based treatment is vividly detailed, from screening, assessment, and case conceptualization through acute therapy, maintenance treatment, and periodic booster sessions. Among the special features are reproducible assessment tools and a chapter on how to overcome specific treatment challenges.

Contents:

Introduction: Where Interpersonal and Social Rhythm Therapy Came From
1. The Patients
2. Empirically Supported Theories of Bipolar Disorder and the Etiology of Bipolar Episodes
3. Empirically Supported Therapies for Bipolar Disorder
4. A Brief Overview of Interpersonal and Social Rhythm Therapy
5. Assessment of Bipolar Disorders and Common Comorbidities
6. The Individualized Case Formulation: History Taking and the Interpersonal Inventory
7. Orienting the Patient to Treatment and Individualized Treatment Planning
8. Symptom Management: Stabilizing Social Rhythms and Behavioral Activation
9. Intervening in Interpersonal Problem Areas
10. Intervening: Other Useful Interventions
11. Monitoring Progress and Enhancing Treatment Adherence
12. The Therapeutic Relationship in Interpersonal and Social Rhythm Therapy
13. Poor Outcome and How to Handle It
14. Tapering or Concluding Treatment
Appendices