Dr. Miklowitz is Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Colorado (Boulder and Health Sciences Center Campuses), and for 2006-2007 was a visiting professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Oxford University. He completed his undergraduate work at Brandeis University and his doctoral (1979-1985) and postdoctoral (1985-1988) work at UCLA. His research focuses on family environmental factors and family psychoeducational treatments for adult-onset and childhood-onset bipolar disorder.
Dr. Miklowitz has received the Joseph Gengerelli Dissertation Award from UCLA (1986), Young Investigator Awards from the International Congress on Schizophrenia Research (1987) and the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD; 1987), a Research Faculty Award from the University of Colorado (1998), and a Distinguished Investigator Award from NARSAD (2001). He is the recent recipient of the 2005 Mogens Schou Award for Research from the International Society for Bipolar Disorders. He has received funding for his research from the National Institute of Mental Health, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the Robert Sutherland Foundation.
Dr. Miklowitz has published more than 170 research articles and book chapters on bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, and three books, including The Bipolar Disorder Survival Guide, a bestseller. His articles have appeared in the Archives of General Psychiatry, the American Journal of Psychiatry, the British Journal of Psychiatry, the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, Biological Psychiatry, the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, and the Journal of Abnormal Psychology. His book with Michael Goldstein, Bipolar Disorder: A Family-Focused Treatment Approach (Guilford), won the 1998 Outstanding Research Publication Award from the American Association for Marital and Family Therapy. His latest book, also with Guilford, is titled Bipolar Teens: What You Can Do to Help Your Teen and Family.
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| Name: | David Miklowitz |
| Department: | Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry, |
| Location: | UCD and University of Colorado at Boulder |
| Contact: | miklow@psych.colorado.edu |
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