Person-Centered Therapy For Bipolar Disorder
Person-Centered Therapy For Bipolar Disorder
Person-Centered Therapy For Bipolar Disorder
Person-centered
Treatment
For
Bipolar Disorder
Author’s note
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Abstract
Person-centered therapy can serve as an effective tool in helping to treat bipolar disorder.
The person-centered approach is a therapeutic strategy. This paper explains how this
therapeutic style can be used effectively as a treatment measure. It also examines how
synchronism between therapy techniques and emotional polar shifts can help to establish
breakthroughs. Topics are covered such as focus of the study, key research that will be
used as a framework to guide theoretical arguments. This article also provides key
elements behind what will make its findings relevant to the future of the scientific
community.
By Doneil Jones of Freeworld of the Mind
Bipolar disorder is a brain disorder that riddles one’s life with an ongoing
different from the daily ups and downs that can come with life. These mood swings or
mental swings can be devastating to the life of the inflicted individual, as well as to the
According to the NIMH, it tends to be genetic, yet there are also situational risks at
well, plus brain scans revealed how prefrontal cortex appeared to be smaller in adults and
produced less physical responses than those individuals who did not have bipolar disorder
(NIMH, 2014).
More over, there can be a healthy and effective outcome in therapy by utilizing
such a nurturing and non-judgmental school of thought as that of the humanistic path. The
person-centered therapeutic path that Carl Rogers introduced can be effective in fostering
patient self-reflection. This self-reflection can assist them in reflecting upon who they are
as individuals while bolstering their self-awareness; throughout this process of being open,
There is an ugly side of psychiatric treatment that is not often written about
clinically. Nor, is it televised upon the news daily. However, there are bipolar patients
who currently are hospitalized in behavioral centers that are treated like animals. Some of
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these patients are also mistreated, talked down to, neglected and administered medications
to merely keep them sedated (AFMH, 2013). For the sake of maintaining clinical integrity,
clinicians should submit sufficient substantial evidence for treating all bipolar patients
with greater sensitivity and clinical benevolence for the sake of the clients’ recovery and
coping.
For example, a corporate employee reported the stigma that she has experienced
who think that individuals who are inflicted a mental illness are cognitively incapable of
performing at the required levels of most executives at her level (Rachel, 2008)
bipolar disorder. Individuals who experience life with bi-polar disorder can be bombarded
by their emotional tidal waves. The emotional shifts are not planned nor expected. They
can be very unpredictable. Shifts in mood can swiftly alternate from the heights of
euphoria to a swift plummet into despair quickly. Not all who experience bi-polar disorder
take on the depression; however, manic episodes touch the lives of all who carry this
challenging condition (Mayo Clinic, 2014). In this regard it is pivotal that all levels of the
field from professional to clinical understand the need to treat these clients with the utmost
provides an information base which supports the mission of the humanistic school of
thought and its determination to provide sensitivity and richness to the therapeutic
relationship while honoring the complexity (Cosgrove, 2007) of the human experience.
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In the article, “Stressful life events, bipolar disorder, and the 'kindling model,”
there is an exploration of some of the very detrimental statistics behind what makes the
lives of individuals with bipolar disorder challenging and sometimes nearly debilitating.
The statistical categorizing of manic depressive episodes over the course of up to 5 years
has been documented up to 44% up to 1 year and up to 87% over 5 years Hlastala, Frank,
Kowalsk, Sherrill, Tu, Anderson, Kupfer, 2000). This research has even expressed that
In the article, “Current treatments for bipolar disorder: a review and update for
identifying bipolar disorder in three categories. The article then follows up, by exploring
highlights the drugs that have been most effective in curbing the mood swings associated
with the mental disorder. What is even more interesting is the revelation that the limbic
system and associated regions are thought to serve as the primary locus of dysfunction in
statement of course leaves much in question; there is great potential for further discovery
there.
perspective for the discussion of bipolar I disorder analysis. The article goes on to explain
how bipolar disorder is the 10th most incapacitating mental illnesses in the world
further to deconstruct other alleged aspects of the illness. The remainder of the article
attempts to bring clarity to the nature of diagnosis, demographic and clinical predictors of
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In the article, Mind, Brain and Humanistic Values: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist,
the author states that the Humanist impacts the behavior science (Sperry, 1996). This will
prove instrumental to my research because it will lead into key elements that can prove
how humanist methods can positively impact mental and mood instability in individuals
Theoretical Foundations
founded upon the premise of valuing the entire human being and respecting their inner
locus of desire to strive for their highest state of being (Tilley, 2005, Henry, 2011). The
humanistic school of thought presents the individual with a platform of which they can
explore their lives and become reacquainted with who they are all within the same process
(Myers, 2001). This is an important privilege and gift for individuals with mental illness to
be able afforded in a society where they are faced with what can feel like unrealistic
expectations, bullying and clinical labels daily. The person-centered approach has the
theoretical design, which can help bring peace of mind to an individual. Lastly, peace of
mind is exactly the state of mind that clinicians should be helping those who struggle with
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