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Volume 4 Bipolar Disorder: Open Access Bipolar Disorder 2018
November 05-06, 2018
November 05-06, 2018 Abu Dhabi, UAE
International Conference on
Bipolar Disorder: Depression and
Psychiatry
Literature review on effectiveness of psychoeducation for families of patients with bipolar disorder
Rasha Shehadi
Novomed Psychiatry and Neurology, UAE
Bipolar disorder carries a tremendous burden on patients and their families on various aspects and impacts their mental
health and wellbeing, relationships, functioning, and financial status. Pharmacotherapy is the first line of treatment, yet
research concluded that adjunctive treatment plans, including family psychoeducation, yield better outcome and significantly
less relapse and hospitalization rates. Despite the adoption of the biopsychosocial model in today’s medicine, families are
less likely to be involved in the treatment of people with bipolar disorder for various reasons. This is a review of studies that
suggest that adjunctive family psychoeducation and focused therapies greatly improves treatment outcome for patients and
their families. Some models of family psychoeducation intervention will be discussed, in addition to a case presentation.
Biography
Rasha Shehadi obtained her Masters of Science in Mental Health Nursing from the American University of Beirut in 2017. She worked in several mental health
outpatient facilities, starting with Doctors without Borders NGO in Beirut, and then starting up mental health services after moving to Dubai in 2012. Recently she
joined Novomed Psychiatry and Neurology to collaborate in the set up of their services.
Rasha Shehadi, Bipolar Disord 2018, Volume 4
DOI: 10.4172/2472-1077-C1-002