The Wiley Concise Guides to Mental Health: Bipolar Disorder

by Brian Quinn, Irving B. Weiner (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780470046623
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	04/20/2007
Series:	Wiley Concise Guides to Mental Health Series
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.98(d)

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.

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Table of Contents

Series Preface ix

Preface by S. Nassir Ghaemi, MD, MPH xi

Acknowledgments xv

Section One: Epidemeology, Phenomenology, and Diagnosis

Introduction Bipolar Spectrum Illnesses: Common but Often Misdiagnosed and Inappropriately Treated 3

Chapter 1 An Overview of Bipolar Disorder and Its Diagnosis 11

Section Two: Differential Diagnosis and Comorbidity

Chapter 2 Differentiating Unipolar from Bipolar Depression 37

Chapter 3 Differentiating Bipolar Illness from Organic Illnesses and Other Psychiatric Disorders 59

Chapter 4 Comorbidity: Organic Illnesses, ADHD, Personality, Eating, Anxiety, and Impulse Control Disorders 79

Chapter 5 Comorbidity: Alcohol and Drug Abuse 95

Section Three: Treatment

Chapter 6 Pharmacologic Treatment of Mania and Hypomania 129

Chapter 7 The Problem of Bipolar Depression 179

Chapter 8 Psychosocial Treatments 223

Chapter 9 Nonpharmacologic Approaches 241

Chapter 10 Identification and Management of Suicide Risk 261

Chapter 11 Child and Early Adolescent Bipolar Disorder: An Emerging Diagnosis by Carolyn Colwell, LCSW 275

Chapter 12 Bipolar Disorder in Older Adults by Colin Depp, Ph.D 309

Chapter 13 A Multidimensional Approach to Helping Patients with Bipolar Disorder 321

Index 337

Editorial Reviews

"As suggested in the preface, the text is easy to read. The chapters are also peppered with useful pearls about bipolar disorder, particularly regarding treatment approaches for non-medical mental health practitioners." (Journal of Psychiatric Practice, January 2009)

"This is an excellent overview of bipolar illness...Treatment interventions including pharmacologic, psychotherapeutic, and psychosocial are explained clearly and concisely.  I would highly recommend this book." (Chicago Psychiatry Associates, 2008)

"Quinn demonstrates that he is well versed and skillful in presenting the diagnosis and treatment of bipolar disorder in an organized and clinically relevant way. This text is a competent, thorough and clinically useful guide to the multiple aspects of bipolar diagnosis and treatment. It will be read satisfactorily by both medically trained mental health professionals and psychotherapists alike." (International Society for Bipolar Disorder, Fall 2007)

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