Bipolar disorder refers to a type of mood disorder that includes both manic or mild manic episodes and depressive episodes in clinical practice. Compared with a single disease, comorbidities typically have characteristics such as severe symptoms, long course of disease, severe social function impairment, high risk of suicide, and poor prognosis. Minors are prone to engage in criminal behavior under the influence of bipolar disorder. This study will use group psychological counseling combined with criminal law protection education to intervene and treat underage patients.

80 underage bipolar disorder patients were selected and divided into two groups according to a random number table method: the control group received group psychological counseling for intervention, while the research group received group psychological counseling combined with communication training and nursing. The improvement of the condition, self-care ability, depression, mania, quality of life, medication compliance, and social adaptability scores of the two groups of patients were compared.

The results showed that before the intervention, there was no statistically significant difference in the improvement of the condition, self-care ability, depression, mania, quality of life, medication compliance, and social adaptation scores between the two groups. After 12 weeks of intervention, the improvement score of the study group’s condition and self-care ability score were higher than that of the control group.

The combination of group psychological counseling and criminal law protection education can enhance the treatment effect of underage bipolar disorder patients, improve their quality of life, alleviate negative emotions, and achieve better nursing outcomes.