FFT for BD
| Study | Mean age | Sample size | Female | Intervention type | Outcomes | Follow-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tabas et al. [136] | 31.88 | 60 | 16 | 12 weekly group sessions | Improved relapse prevention and promoted social functioning | 3 months |
| Fredman et al. [137] | 35.61 | 108 | 67 | 21 weekly individual sessions | Improvements in mania symptoms; showing appropriate self-sacrifice | None |
| West et al. [107] | 9.15 | 69 | 28 | 12 weekly group child- and family-focused CBT | Reducing mania and depression symptoms; improvement in global functioning | 6 months |
| Miklowitz and Chung [138] | 14.4 | 52 | 33 | 21 weekly individual sessions | Reductions in depressive and mania symptoms | 12 months |
| Solomon et al. [139] | 41 | 53 | 30 | 12 weekly individual sessions | Recovering from mood episodes; changing attitude toward the illness; decreasing feelings of isolation and burden; significantly fewer hospitalizations; increasing the ability to manage symptoms and mood episodes | 6 months |
| Miller [140] | 39 | 92 | 52 | 12 weekly group sessions | Significantly improves recovery from BD I mood episodes | None |
| Reinares et al. [141] | 35.4 | 45 | 22 | 12 weekly group sessions | Increasing caregivers’ knowledge of BD, reduced caregivers’ belief about the link between disruption in life and the patient’s behavior, and reduced the caregivers’ subjective burden | 3 months |
| Weisman et al. [142] | 27.19 | 26 | 26 | 21 weekly individual sessions | Decreases in hospitalization; improvement in problem-solving and management of episodes | 24 months |