Table 7.

Psychosocial Treatments for Bipolar Disorder^a

Interpersonal and social rhythms therapy	Aims to regulate social routines and stabilize interpersonal relationships to improve depression and prevent relapse, includes psychoeducation
Family focused therapy	Aims to involve family to help improve communication and reduce negative expressed emotion and stressors that provoke episodes, includes psychoeducation
Cognitive behavioral therapy	Aims to correct negative thoughts and dysfunctional beliefs and improve problem solving and communication, includes psychoeducation

^aBased on Miklowitz et al.⁴⁹