Society guideline links: Bipolar disorder

Introduction — 

This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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International

●International College of Neuropsychopharmacology (CINP): Guidelines on the definition and evidence-based interventions for treatment-resistant bipolar disorder (2019)

●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)

●World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP): Guidelines for the biological treatment of bipolar disorders – Acute and long-term treatment of mixed states in bipolar disorder (2017)

●ISBD: Task force report on antidepressant use in bipolar disorders (2013)

●WFSBP: Guidelines for the biological treatment of bipolar disorders – The long-term treatment of bipolar disorder, 2012 update (published 2013)

Canada

●Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments (CANMAT) and International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD): Recommendations for the management of patients with bipolar disorder with mixed presentations (2021)

●CANMAT and ISBD: Guidelines for the management of patients with bipolar disorder (2018)

United States

●U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)/Department of Defense (DOD): Clinical practice guidelines for the management of bipolar disorder (2023)

United Kingdom

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Clinical guideline on bipolar disorder – Assessment and management (2014, updated 2023)

●British Association for Psychopharmacology (BAP): Evidence-based guidelines for treating bipolar disorder, revised 3rd edition recommendations (2016)

●NICE: Guideline on coexisting severe mental illness and substance misuse – Community health and social care services (2016)

●NICE: Quality standard on bipolar disorder in adults (2015)

●NICE: Quality standard on bipolar disorder, psychosis and schizophrenia in children and young people (2015)

●Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN): A national clinical guideline on the management of perinatal mood disorders (2012)

●NICE: Clinical guideline on coexisting severe mental illness (psychosis) and substance misuse – Assessment and management in healthcare settings (2011)

Australia–New Zealand

●Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP): Clinical practice guidelines for mood disorders (2020)

●RANZCP: Professional practice guideline 7 – Guidance for psychotropic medication use in children and adolescents (2015)

Japan

●[In English] Japanese Society of Mood Disorders Practice (JSMD): Guidelines for bipolar disorder (2024)

●[In Japanese] JSMD: Treatment guidelines I – Bipolar disorder (2020)