Evidence-Based Treatment Planning for Bipolar Disorder DVD

Improve the Quality of Mental Health Care

This DVD helps address the challenges many practitioners face in
assimilating results from psychotherapy research into their
treatment plans. It offers step-by-step guidance on how to create
an evidence-based psychotherapy treatment plan for bipolar
disorder. In a viewer-friendly manner, Drs. Art Jongsma and Tim
Bruce discuss the steps involved in psychotherapy treatment
planning and how to integrate objectives and interventions into a
treatment plan, as part of an overall evidence-based practice. A
sample evidence-based treatment plan for bipolar disorder is
provided. The Companion Workbook contains an optional 20-question
test that can be submitted for Continuing Education Credit.

In this DVD, Drs. Jongsma and Bruce:

* Discuss the process and criteria for diagnosing bipolar
disorder

* Describe the essential elements of psychotherapy treatment
planning

* Provide a brief history of efforts to identify empirically
supported treatments (ESTs) for bipolar disorder

* Describe identified ESTs for bipolar disorder

* Demonstrate how to empirically inform a psychotherapy treatment
plan with objectives and interventions consistent with those of
identified ESTs for bipolar disorder

* Show and discuss role-played scenarios that demonstrate selected
aspects of the ESTs

* Discuss common considerations in relapse prevention and show how
they can be integrated into a psychotherapy treatment plan

System requirements:

* Playable on a set-top DVD player or a computer with a DVD-ROM
drive, at least 512 MB system RAM, and a software DVD decoder

* PC requires Windows 2000 or higher; Mac requires OS 9 or
higher

* Sound card and speakers required to listen to audio

Also available:

Evidence-Based Treatment Planning for Bipolar Disorder DVD
Companion Workbook / 978-0-470-56857-6

Evidence-Based Treatment Planning for Bipolar Disorder DVD
Facilitator's Guide / 978-0-470-56846-0

Approximate run time: 1:07

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Treatment Planning DVDs, visit us on the Web at:
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