The hypomania handbook : the challenge of elevated mood / Christopher M. Doran.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Doran, Christopher M., 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hypomania--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Hypomania.

Bipolar Disorder--diagnosis.

Bipolar Disorder--therapy.

Medical Subjects:

Bipolar Disorder--diagnosis.

Bipolar Disorder--therapy.

Genre:

Handbooks and manuals.

Physical Description:

ix, 310 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, [2008]

Summary:

This practical, clinically oriented handbook provides up-to-date information on the concept, causality, diagnosis, pharmacologic, and behavioral treatment of hypomania-an increasingly recognized "elevated mood" state of bipolar illness. This easy-to-use resource: Traces the evolution of the concepts of elevated mood, including the bipolar spectrum. Presents the GEnES Fingerprint, a new model for understanding and classifying biopsychosocial factors in mood disorders. Describes analogies, verbal interventions, and other novel psychotherapeutic techniques for treating hypomanic patients. Provides evidence-based medication recommendations. Discusses the management of elevated mood symptoms in difficult-to-treat populations. With take-home points at end of each chapter, chapter outlines, and an appendix listing Internet resources for patients and clinicians, The Hypomania Handbook will be your indispensable guide to this increasingly recognized disorder.

Contents:

The evolution of elevated mood

The GEnES fingerprint: the future

Diagnostic issues in hypomania

Upside downzz: depression and hypomania

Treating elevated mood: principles and the challenges

Treating elevated mood without medication

Treatment of elevated mood with medication

Mixed episodes and rapid cycling

Roughening: when treatment fails

Agitated activation, anxiety, and elevated mood

Sleep and hypomania: the ABCs of getting your ZZZs

Medical conditions and elevated mood

Elevated mood and substance abuse

Pregnancy and elevated mood.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0781775205

9780781775205

OCLC:

123962902

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