Emotion-Focused Psychotherapy Comparable To Skills-Focused CBT At Preventing Relapse Among Patients With Bipolar Disorder, Study Finds

Psychiatric News [mailview.bulletinhealthcare.com] (6/7) reported, “Skills-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy and emotion-focused psychotherapy were equally effective at preventing relapse in patients with bipolar disorder when added to standard treatment, reports a study [mailview.bulletinhealthcare.com] in JAMA Psychiatry.” In the study, “what affected the relapse rate more than the therapy delivered was whether the patients attended all their psychotherapy sessions and whether they had bipolar I versus bipolar II disorder.”

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— “Emotion-Focused Therapy Comparable to CBT at Preventing Relapse Among Bipolar Patients, Psychiatric News, June 7, 2024

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