Improve the Quality of Mental Health Care

This DVD helps address the challenges many practitioners face in assimilating results from psychotherapy research into their treatment plans. It offers step-by-step guidance on how to create an evidence-based psychotherapy treatment plan for bipolar disorder. In a viewer-friendly manner, Drs. Art Jongsma and Tim Bruce discuss the steps involved in psychotherapy treatment planning and how to integrate objectives and interventions into a treatment plan, as part of an overall evidence-based practice. A sample evidence-based treatment plan for bipolar disorder is provided. The Companion Workbook contains an optional 20-question test that can be submitted for Continuing Education Credit.

In this DVD, Drs. Jongsma and Bruce:

• Discuss the process and criteria for diagnosing bipolar disorder

• Describe the essential elements of psychotherapy treatment planning

• Provide a brief history of efforts to identify empirically supported treatments (ESTs) for bipolar disorder

• Describe identified ESTs for bipolar disorder

• Demonstrate how to empirically inform a psychotherapy treatment plan with objectives and interventions consistent with those of identified ESTs for bipolar disorder

• Show and discuss role-played scenarios that demonstrate selected aspects of the ESTs

• Discuss common considerations in relapse prevention and show how they can be integrated into a psychotherapy treatment plan

System requirements:

• Playable on a set-top DVD player or a computer with a DVD-ROM drive, at least 512 MB system RAM, and a software DVD decoder

• PC requires Windows 2000 or higher; Mac requires OS 9 or higher

• Sound card and speakers required to listen to audio

Also available:

Evidence-Based Treatment Planning for Bipolar Disorder DVD Companion Workbook / 978-0-470-56857-6

Evidence-Based Treatment Planning for Bipolar Disorder DVD Facilitator's Guide / 978-0-470-56846-0

Approximate run time: 1:07

For more information on our full line of Evidence-Based Treatment Planning DVDs, visit us on the Web at: www.wiley.com/psychology

ARTHUR E. JONGSMA, Jr., PhD, is the Series Editor for the best-selling PracticePlanners®. Since 1971, he has provided professional mental health services to both inpatient and outpatient clients. He was the founder and Director of Psychological Consultants, a group private practice in Grand Rapids, Michigan, for 25 years. He is the author or co-author of over forty books on Treatment Planning and has conducted training workshops for mental health professionals around the world.

TIMOTHY J. BRUCE, PhD, is Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Peoria, Illinois, where he also directs medical student education and serves as associate director of the psychiatry residency training program. Highly recognized as a clinician-educator, Dr. Bruce has received nearly 30 awards for teaching over his career.