A nurse is developing a plan for secondary prevention activities at a large urban mental health clinic
Within this plan, the nurse develops an assessment tool to help identify children and adolescents with bipolar disorder (BPD). Why does the nurse consider this a priority?
A) Untreated BPD in childhood and adolescence sensitizes clients and predisposes them to more frequent episodes later.
B) Later identification is associated with increased incidence of comorbid thought disorders.
C) Recent studies have suggested that the use of tricyclic antidepressants helps prevent the disease from worsening.
D) BPD in children and adolescents is associated with increased incidence of social phobias later in life.
Ans: A
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If BPD remains unrecognized and unchecked in the child, future episodes of illness may occur independently of any stimulus, and they will occur with greater and greater frequency (Papolos and Papolos, 1999). Therefore, early identification of bipolar disorder in the child is urgent.
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