Study	Reason for exclusion
Anderson 1986	The outcomes assessed were not clinical outcomes directly related to bipolar disorder ie they did not examine the impact of interventions on the disorder itself.
Catanzaro 1973	The study was not a RCT. It was a theoretical explanation of a type of family therapy.
Davenport 1977	The study was not a RCT.
Fitzgerald 1972	The study was not a RCT.
Fristad 2002	The outcomes considered in this study were not of direct clinical relevance. No data were presented on the possible impact of the intervention on the disorder.
Honig 1995	The study was not a RCT.
Kim 2004	This was not an primary RCT. Data were collected from two others studies, one of them included in the present review (Miklowitz 2003).
Miklowitz 2000	This paper reports on one year follow‐up data from the study by Miklowitz 2003, which is included in this review.
Simoneau 1999	This presents some results from the study reported by Miklowitz 2003, which is included in this review.