The Wiley Concise Guides to Mental Health: Bipolar Disorder

Brian Quinn

John Wiley & Sons, Apr 20, 2007 - Psychology - 368 pages

The Wiley Concise Guides to Mental Health: Bipolar Disorder uses clear, highly accessible language to comprehensively guide the reader through the entire spectrum of bipolar and related disorders. This concise, informative reference provides a complete overview of the history of the field, diagnosis, treatment, research, emerging trends, and other critical information about bipolar disorder. Both pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions are thoroughly covered.

Like all the books in the Wiley Concise Guides to Mental Health Series, Bipolar Disorder features a compact, easy-to-use format that includes:

• Vignettes and case illustrations
• A practical approach that emphasizes real-life treatment over theory
  
• Resources for specific readers such as clinicians, students, or patients

Early chapters in Bipolar Disorder lay out the descriptive and diagnostic issues for classic bipolar I disorder, the more subtle "soft" bipolar disorders, and other disorders, such as hyperactivity and borderline personality, that are often misdiagnosed as bipolar. The text then covers the medical, psychiatric, and substance abuse disorders that can accompany bipolar disorders, and offers practical tips for non-medically trained therapists on how to spot these disorders. Finally, pharmacological, psychosocial, and additional treatments and interventions are covered. This straightforward resource is admirably suited for a wide variety of readers, including students and practicing mental health professionals, as well as individuals and others directly and indirectly affected by bipolar disorder.

Contents

• CHAPTER: 14
• Differential Diagnosis and Comorbidity: 35
• CHAPTER 2: 50
• CHAPTER 3: 66
• CHAPTER 4: 79
• CHAPTER 5: 95
• Treatment: 127
• Pharmacologic Treatment of Mania and Hypomania: 129
• The Problem of Bipolar Depression: 179
• Psychosocial Treatments: 223
• Nonpharmacologic Approaches: 241
• Identification and Management of Suicide Risk: 261
• An Emerging Diagnosis by Carolyn Colwell LCSW: 275
• Bipolar Disorder in Older Adults by Colin Depp Ph D: 309
• A Multidimensional Approach to Helping Patients with Bipolar Disorder: 321
• Index: 337

About the author

Brian Quinn, LCSW, PhD, is a clinical social worker in private practice in Huntington, New York. He delivers live and Web-based seminars nationwide on treating depression and bipolar disorder, having trained more than 1,500 practitioners. He is the author of The Depression Sourcebook.

Irving B. Weiner, PhD, is the Series Editor for the Wiley Concise Guides to Mental Health. He is a prolific author and the editor of the award-winning, twelve-volume Handbook of Psychology, also from Wiley.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Wiley Concise Guides to Mental Health: Bipolar Disorder; Wiley concise guides to mental health
• Author: Brian Quinn
• Contributor: Irving B. Weiner
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2007
• ISBN: 0470046627, 9780470046623
• Length: 368 pages
• Subjects: Psychology / General; Psychology / Practice Management