• DOI:10.1586/ern.10.75
Corpus ID: 20590868

Cognitive–behavioral therapy for bipolar disorder

@article{Costa2010CognitivebehavioralTF,
  title={Cognitive–behavioral therapy for bipolar disorder},
  author={R. T. Costa and B. Rang{\'e} and Lucia Emmanoel Novaes Malagris and A. Sardinha and M. R. Carvalho and A. Nardi},
  journal={Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics},
  year={2010},
  volume={10},
  pages={1089 - 1099}
}

• R. T. Costa, B. Rangé, +3 authors A. Nardi
• Published 2010
• Psychology, Medicine
• Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics

Bipolar disorder is one of the most serious and prevalent psychiatric disorders. The aim of the present article is to review the efficiency of cognitive–behavioral therapy (CBT) for bipolar patients. Some studies show consistent evidence that cognitive therapy, concomitant to psycho-education and pharmacological treatment, offers efficacy in different phases of the disease. In most of the studies, patients undergoing CBT showed improvements in quality of life, with a reduction in both frequency… Expand