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Self-Management and Bipolar Disorder–A Clinician’s Guide to the Literature 2011-2014

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This review provides clinicians and individuals with bipolar disorder (BD) with an overview of evidence-based skills shown to be effective in BD and amenable to self-management including psychoeducation; monitoring moods, medications, and social function; sleep hygiene; setting goals and relapse plans; and healthy lifestyles (physical activity, healthy eating, weight loss and management, medical comorbidities). Currently available self-management resources for BD are summarized by mode of delivery (workbooks, mobile technologies, internet, and peer-led interventions). Regardless of the self-management intervention/topic, the research suggests that personally tailored interventions of longer duration and greater frequency may be necessary to achieve the maximal benefit among individuals with BD. Means to support these self-management interventions as self-sustaining identities are critically needed. Hopefully, the recent investment in patient-centered research and care will result in best practices for the self-management of BD by mode of delivery. Since self-management of BD should complement rather than replace medical care, clinicians need to partner with their patients to incorporate and support advances in self-management for individuals with BD.

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CAJ was supported by the VA Center for Clinical Management Research, Health Services Research and Development as a post-doctoral fellow at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System.

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This review does not attempt to be an exhaustive review of the resources pertaining to self-management and bipolar disorder. We have included specific resources to provide a sense of the breadth and focus of available resources currently available on the topic of self-management and bipolar disorder. Our inclusion/exclusion of specific resources should not be considered an endorsement or lack of endorsement of any particular resource pertaining to self-management and bipolar disorder.

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Carol A. Janney has received grants from Actigraph, Inc., and Charles F. Kline to study physical activity in bipolar disorder.

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Janney, C.A., Bauer, M.S. & Kilbourne, A.M. Self-Management and Bipolar Disorder–A Clinician’s Guide to the Literature 2011-2014. Curr Psychiatry Rep 16, 485 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11920-014-0485-5

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