Bipolar Disorder, Second Edition A Family-Focused Treatment Approach

David J. Miklowitz, PhD, is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, Los Angeles Semel Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine, and Senior Clinical Research Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry at Oxford University. He was Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Colorado at Boulder from 1989 to 2009. His current research focuses on family psychoeducational treatments for childhood-onset bipolar disorder. Dr. Miklowitz has received a number of awards for his research, including, most recently, the Distinguished Investigator Award from the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression, the Mogens Schou Award for Research from the International Society for Bipolar Disorders, and the Monica Fooks lectureship from Oxford University. Dr. Miklowitz has published more than 200 research articles and book chapters and five books on bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. The first edition of Bipolar Disorder: A Family-Focused Treatment Approach won the Outstanding Research Publication Award from the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.