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Bipolar Disorder
New bipolar disorder research reported from Y. Khazaal and co-authors
April 12th, 2008
"Mental Health Advance Directives (MHADs) are potentially useful for bipolar patients due to the episodic characteristic of their disease. An interest for the development of a Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) approach in the creation process of MHADs arises because of a lack of efficiency of the non-collaborative processes, the potential impact of psychopathology and the awareness of the illness in MHADs' content, the link between the patient's directives interest and the case manager's interest, and the lower interest reported by the potentially high MHADs beneficiary," researchers in Prilly, Switzerland report. "The CBT intervention in the MHADs creation process...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2008-04-12)
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