Coping With Bipolar Disorder | Proven Strategies To Help Young People & Their Families

In this episode, we connect with Dr. David Miklowitz, a Professor of Psychiatry in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the UCLA Semel Institute, and a Senior Clinical Research Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry at Oxford University.

As a clinical psychologist, Dr. Miklowitz specializes in adolescents and children that suffer from bipolar disorder. By utilizing the resources that the family unit can offer, he has developed effective strategies to treat young people who suffer from this illness.

Dr. Miklowitz wants to give people tools to manage their disorder – or support a loved one with the illness. With this in mind, he wrote The Bipolar Disorder Survival Guide: What You and Your Family Need to Know, a book that outlines how to deal with mood episodes, reduce recurrences, avoid misdiagnosis, get the most out of treatment, resolve family conflicts, and more…

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Jump into the conversation now to discover:

1) How bipolar disorder is characterized.
2) How family-focused therapy can be effective in treating bipolar disorder.
3) Three kinds of bipolar disorder, and what the symptoms are.
4) The differences between “ordinary teenage behavior” and bipolar disorder.
5) How early intervention can help prevent certain symptoms.

To find out more about Dr. Miklowitz and his work, click https://www.semel.ucla.edu/champ now!

Episode also available on Apple Podcast: http://apple.co/30PvU9C