Assessing Bipolar Disorder in Children and Adolescents

Topics: Assessment | Bipolar Disorder | DMDD | Nomogram | Posterior Probability

CCPR: Can you talk about usual practice in assessing children and adolescents for bipolar disorder? Dr. Van Meter: Despite decades of good research demonstrating that young people are affected by bipolar disorder, it’s often a diagnosis of last resort. For example, somebody might be diagnosed initially with major depressive disorder and treated with