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Patient Life Charting
Would
you like to be able to keep track of all aspects of your bipolar illness on
one simple form? The patient retrospective and prospective life chart forms
have proven to be invaluable aids in managing bipolar illness for thousands
of patients.
A. Patient Retrospective and
Prospective Manuals and Forms:
"In the past you have probably been asked
many questions about your illness by doctors and/or therapists who have
worked with you, and by family members or friends who were concerned about
your well-being. It can be difficult, however, to remember things "on the
spot" and important facts could be left out that would be useful for your
doctor or therapist to be aware of when trying to decide on the next step in
your treatment. You already know that you benefit from being an informed and
knowledgeable participant in your treatment process. We think that the life
chart can be a very effective and valuable tool in helping you organize and
visually present many important aspects of the past course of your illness.
"By constructing your own life chart you are creating a
portable psychiatric history of your illness in the form of an easily
understandable graph or picture that you and your physician can review
together, change where necessary, consult when important decisions about
your treatment are being made, and continue to use as a way of monitoring
your current course of illness and treatment response through daily
prospective life-charting."
B. Downloading Life Chart Forms
and Manuals:
The
patient life chart manuals and forms are in Adobe Acrobat *.pdf form. Adobe
Acrobat Reader is a free program that you can download from the internet at
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html, or by clicking on
the Adobe box below.
1. Patient Retrospective Forms
and Manuals:
Patient Retrospective Manual
(File
Size: 747 KB)
Patient Retrospective Form
(File Size:
32 KB)
2. Patient Prospective
Forms and Manuals:
Patient
Prospective Manual (File Size: 2.06 MB)
Patient
Prospective Form (File Size: 31 KB)
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