A comprehensive approach to the treatment of bipolar disorder, this book details an innovative program of interventions that augments rather than replaces pharmacotherapy. Topics covered include patient and family education, early symptom detection for the prevention of relapse, methods for the enhancement of treatment compliance, strategies for the remediation of subsyndromal symptoms of depression and mania, and ways to identify and resolve psychosocial and interpersonal problems. Each chapter provides session-by-session instructions, as well as patient assignments and clear and concise directions for the implementation of each intervention.

Monica Ramirez Basco, a clinical psychologist, received her doctoral training at the University of southern California. After an internship at the University of California, San Diego, she joined the research faculty in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas in 1987. Dr. Basco's research and clinical interests have been in the enhancement of treatment compliance as well as in the assessment and treatment of severe and persistent mental illnesses, with special emphasis on mood disorders.

For over 20 years, A. John Rush, M.D., has conducted clinical research that has spanned biological and psychosocial issues in mood disorders in adults, children, and adolescents, and promoted the application of clinical research findings to improve the diagnosis and treatment for these patients. He currently hold the Betty Jo Hay Distinguished Chair in Mental Health in the Department of Psychiatry and is Vice-Chairman for Research at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. He has published over 190 papers and book chapters and 7 books. His most recent honors include being named Outstanding Psychiatrist of the Year by the Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians in 1995, co-recipient of the Gerald L. Klerman Lifetime Research Award of the National Depressive and Manic Depressive Association in 1994, and the Professional of the Year Award from the Dallas Alliance for the Mentally Ill in 1994. He has received the Strecker Award (Institute of Pennsylvania Hospital) and the Charles C. Burlingame Award (Institute of Living) in recognition of his research, teaching, and clinical work.