Special Issue on Bipolar Disorder

Bipolar Disorder is a serious mental illness in which common emotions become intensely and often unpredictably magnified. Individuals with bipolar disorder can quickly swing from extremes of happiness, energy and clarity to sadness, fatigue and confusion. These shifts can be so devastating that individuals may choose suicide. As a discipline, psychology can make huge contributions to our understanding, assessment, and treatment of bipolar disorder. Treatment commonly includes psychotherapy and medications such as mood stabilizers or antipsychotics.

In this special issue, we intend to invite front-line researchers and authors to submit original research and review articles on exploring bipolar disorder. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Perceptions and impact of bipolar disorder
• Prevalence and disability of bipolar disorders
• Lifetime prevalence and distributions of bipolar disorders
• Child and adolescent bipolar disorder
• Psychosocial treatment of bipolar disorders
• The role of family systems in severe and recurrent psychiatric disorders
• Risk factors in relation to an emergence of bipolar disorder
• Bipolar diagnoses in community mental health

Authors should read over the journal’s Authors’ Guidelines carefully before submission. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal’s Paper Submission System.

Please kindly notice that the “Special Issue” under your manuscript title is supposed to be specified and the research field “Special Issue - Bipolar Disorder” should be chosen during your submission.

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