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 APA Practice Guidelines > Bipolar Disorder
Treatment of Patients With Bipolar Disorder, Second Edition
This guideline is more than 5 years old and has not yet been updated to ensure that it reflects current knowledge and practice. In accordance with national standards, including those of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s National Guideline Clearinghouse, this guideline can no longer be assumed to be current. A third edition of this guideline is in development. The November 2005 Guideline Watch associated with this guideline provides additional information that has become available since publication of the guideline, but it is not a formal update of the guideline.
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CONTENTS
PART A: Treatment Recommendations for Patients With Bipolar Disorder
A. Psychiatric Management
B. Acute Treatment
C. Maintenance Treatment
A. Psychiatric Management
B. Acute Treatment
C. Maintenance Treatment
A. Psychiatric Features
B. Demographic and Psychosocial Factors
C. Concurrent General Medical Conditions
PART B: Background Information and Review of Available Evidence
A. Definition of Bipolar Disorder
B. Natural History and Course
C. Epidemiology
A. Somatic Treatments of Acute Manic and Mixed Episodes
B. Somatic Treatments of Acute Depressive Episodes
C. Rapid Cycling
D. Maintenance Treatment
E. Psychosocial Interventions
F. Somatic Therapies for Children and Adolescents
PART C: Future Research Needs
A. Manic and Mixed Episodes
B. Depressive Episodes
C. Rapid Cycling
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