Year: 2012
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: Nonpharmacological treatments for BMDVarious non-pharmacological therapeutic approaches have been suggested for treatment of patients with BMD.One of these methods is Psychoeducation (PE).There are various programs focusing on education which have been found to be helpful in reducing relapse rate, burden of illness as well as improving symptoms and patients' function.Some of these programs are long term and some are short in duration.They all cover topics such as patients' awareness of the illness (which is recurrent and chronic), knowing more about the triggers of a new episodes, necessity of treatment and different treatment options, confronting mood swings, attaining better control over symptoms, awareness about the side effects of medications, effects of coffee and nicotin intake and importance of regular habits and life style (Colom & Vieta, 2006;Dashtbozorgi et al., 2009;Fayyazi et al., 2009; Sadock et al., 2009;Wheeler, 2010a).Psychoeducation may be done in a variety of ways, such as individual treatment, group therapy, multi-family therapy, and patient -family dyadic therapy (Wheeler, 2010a).These methods will be discussed in details below.Another reportedly successful treatment method is cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT).Originally CBT was used for treatment of unipolar depression, but it was later used for BMD patients and many therapeutic programs and techniques were introduced to treat these patients.These programs mainly focus on relaxation strategies, cognitive restructuring, psychoeducation, problem solving strategies and therapeutic interventions to treat patients with co-morbidities (Colom & Vieta, 2006;Miklowitz et al., 2007;Wheeler, 2010b).Some studies have demonstrated efficacy in relapse prevention.However well designed studies with longer follow-up are needed to assess effectiveness of CBT in improvement disease outcome.What seems to be the main core of therapeutic elements in CBT is psychoeducation (Scott et al., 2006).www.intechopen.com
Source: InTech eBooks
DOI: 10.5772/31698
Institution: Mashhad University of Medical Sciences
Language: English
Subfield: Psychiatry and Mental health
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Funder: University of Michigan
OpenAlex ID: W1576609479