TY  - CHAP
AU  - Ashok Kumar Jainer
AU  - Rajkumar Kamatchi
AU  - Marek Marzanski
AU  - Bettahalasoor Somashekar
ED  - Luciano L'Abate
Y1  - 2012-01-13
PY  - 2012
T1  - Advances in the Pharmacotherapy of Bipolar Affective Disorder
N2  - In the book "Mental Illnesses - Evaluation, Treatments and Implications" attention is focused on background factors underlying mental illness. It is crucial that mental illness be evaluated thoroughly if we want to understand its nature, predict its long-term outcome, and treat it with specific rather than generic treatment, such as pharmacotherapy for instance. Additionally, community-wide and cognitive-behavioral approaches need to be combined to decrease the severity of symptoms of mental illness. Unfortunately, those who should profit the most by combination of treatments, often times refuse treatment or show poor adherence to treatment maintenance. Most importantly, what are the implications of the above for the mental health community? Mental illness cannot be treated with one single form of treatment. Combined individual, community, and socially-oriented treatments, including recent distance-writing technologies will hopefully allow a more integrated approach to decrease mental illness world-wide.
BT  - Mental Illnesses
SP  - Ch. 16
UR  - https://doi.org/10.5772/30188
DO  - 10.5772/30188
SN  - 
PB  - IntechOpen
CY  - Rijeka
Y2  - 2024-04-25
ER  -