Treatment Guidelines: Bipolar Disorder

American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

• Practice parameter for the assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with bipolar disorder (2007)

American Psychiatric Association

• Treatment of patients with bipolar disorder (2002)
• Guideline Watch (2005)

British Association for Psychopharmacology

• Evidence-based guidelines for treating bipolar disorder (2016) 

Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments (CANMAT) and International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD)

• Guidelines for the management of patients with bipolar disorder (2018)

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)

• Bipolar disorder: assessment and management (2014, updated 2023)

The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists

• Clinical practice guidelines for mood disorders (2020)

Veterans Affairs/Department of Defense

• Clinical practice guideline for management of bipolar disorder (2023)

World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP)

• Acute and long-term treatment of mixed states in bipolar disorder (2017)
• Maintenance treatment of bipolar disorders (2013)
• Acute bipolar depression (2010)
• Treatment of acute mania (2009)

Reviewer 1: Bridgette Gleisner, PharmD, BCPP
Reviewer 2: Austin Smith, PharmD, BCPP
2024-2025 AAPP Resident and New Practitioner Committee