The Gaps or Difficulties in Service Provision for Patients with Bipolar Affective Disorder

One of the most significant challenges patients with bipolar affective disorder face in service provision is the shortage or lack of specialist support. It is reported that about a million patients diagnosed with bipolar affective disorder in the UK wait for approximately nine years and a half or more to diagnose their condition, after which…

Local And National Policy Use Ensure High-Quality Care for Patients with Bipolar Affective Disorder   

The National Institute of Healthcare and Clinical Excellence (NICE) helps ensure quality care for patients with bipolar affective disorder within mental healthcare settings. The NICE Clinical Guideline introduced some changes in managing bipolar affective disorder in 2014, which altered the long-standing clinical practice linked to bipolar affective disorder. For instance, antidepressants are not recommended to…

How A Patient with Bipolar Affective Disorder, the Family, Careers, and Significant Others Are Impacted By the Diseases

Bipolar affective disorder involves an extreme change of moods in a person that affects not only the person but also their families, friends, and significant others (Yuen, et al., 2019). To an individual, hypomania flexes that involve high energies affect the patient in different ways, such as giving them agitation, increased sense of confidence and well-being,…

The Socio-environmental Approach (childhood trauma)to a Patient with Bipolar Affective Disorder   

The intervention also considered environmental elements that might lead to the cause as well as the progression of bipolar affective disorder in Christopher’s case. Such include potential childhood trauma, loss of loved ones, unemployment, work pressures, and many others. The socio-environmental factors have also been shown to contribute to bipolar affective disorder and must be…

Side Effects of Biological Approach to a Patient with Bipolar Affective Disorder

Benzodiazepines and other anticonvulsants operate through muscle relaxation and sedating actions, causing drowsiness, dizziness, and a decline in brain concentration and alertness. Long-term use of these agents may cause cognitive impairment. Carbamazepine also causes impaired brain concentration (López-Muñoz, et al., 2018). Lithium has several side effects, including muscle weakness, hair loss, acne, hand tremor, impaired…

Biological Approach to a Patient with Bipolar Affective Disorder   

The biological or pharmacological therapy was use for the patient to alleviate biological aspect of the bipolar affective disorder. In biopsychosocial, several biological factors are associated with the cause and progression of bipolar affective disorder (López-Muñoz, et al., 2018). Therefore, the biological approach to bipolar affective disorder includes using pharmacological agents or pharmacotherapy targeting the biological…

Medication Reflection: Bipolar Affective Disorder from the Biopsychosocial

Introduction This study develops an in-depth understanding of the significant findings concerning the biopsychosocial approach to bipolar affective disorder using a case study of a patient, Christopher (a pseudonym),  with bipolar affective disorder. The paper examines the components of biopsychosocial interventions for bipolar affective disorder. Such include biological/pharmacological, psychological, and socio-environmental factors that influence the…