Helping Parents with Bipolar Disorder

Support Parents with Bipolar Disorder and Their Children. TOPIC Research Group, Dept of Psychiatry, University of Oxford

[Helping Parents with Bipolar Disorder @HelpingBipolar]

🔍We want to hear from parents with bipolar disorder or their partners to learn how best to support them with managing child anxiety. Can you help?

For more details, click👉https://t.co/r9yX7opFG2, or contact👉[email protected]

[Bipolar UK @BipolarUK]

Our CEO @SimonKitchen20 is skydiving to raise funds in memory of his brother-in-law Kevin who lived with bipolar. He tragically completed suicide because he believed life couldn't get any better. Read more and support his journey if you can >> https://t.co/rQFX2OFp3J

[Nina Higson-Sweeney @n_higsonsweeney]

Change of plans - am ending the day (and the conference!) with symposium 39: parent interventions in the prevention and treatment of children’s mental health difficulties 👨‍👧 #BABCP2022

[Helping Parents with Bipolar Disorder @HelpingBipolar]

Many children report psychotic experiences (17% in 8-12 years and 8% in adolescents), which are often transient in normative development. Stay calm, encourage your children to talk about it, listen actively and provide support.
*Reference: Kelleher I et al., 2012.

[Helping Parents with Bipolar Disorder @HelpingBipolar]

We believe that parents are experts when it comes to their child. We aim to provide strategies that parents can use at home to help their children overcome their mental health problems.

Here is a comparison between ‘treating child’ and ‘supporting parents’ .

[Helping Parents with Bipolar Disorder @HelpingBipolar]

Does your child have any of the following signs of anxiety? Our research team is developing treatment strategies for children with anxiety problems in the context of parental bipolar disorder.

[Helping Parents with Bipolar Disorder @HelpingBipolar]

Smartphone apps can provide an informative and reliable means for real-time tracking of BD status!

[Bipolar UK @BipolarUK]

Andrew Thompson first saw a psychiatrist when he was 19 but was only diagnosed with bipolar at 50. Here he explains how the diagnosis inspired him to develop a Mood Tracker app for Bipolar UK https://t.co/sGGG9IbGEq

[Helping Parents with Bipolar Disorder @HelpingBipolar]

We’d be really grateful if you could share this! @BipolarUK @pawsresearch @AnxietyUK @ParentingMH @MindEdUK @mentalhealthuk

[Helping Parents with Bipolar Disorder @HelpingBipolar]

🔍We want to hear from parents with bipolar disorder or their partners to learn how best to support them with managing child anxiety. Can you help?

For more details, click👉https://t.co/r9yX7opFG2, or contact👉[email protected]

[Helping Parents with Bipolar Disorder @HelpingBipolar]

🔍 Do you work with parents with bipolar disorder? We want to hear from you to learn how best to support them with managing child anxiety. Can you help?

For more details, click👉https://t.co/4XmACRCHbl, or contact👉[email protected]