This Workshop is designed to teach participants the fundamentals of providing individual-family psychoeducational psychotherapy (IF-PEP) or multi-family psychoeducational psychotherapy (MF-PEP) to school aged children with bipolar spectrum disorders (BPSD). A brief overview of the clinical presentation of BPSD in children is presented, with particular focus on differential diagnosis and patterns of comorbidity. Specific therapeutic techniques to treat youth with BPSD are covered, including differentiating the child from the disorder, building a “tool kit” to regulate emotions, fundamentals of cognitive behavioral therapy, problem solving, verbal and nonverbal skill enhancement, improving health habits, changing maladaptive family patterns, and symptom management strategies.