Sections
Techniques of Individual Interpersonal Psychotherapy: Introduction | Common Therapeutic Factors | Link Between Mood and Life Events | Blame the Depression | Phases of Interpersonal Psychotherapy | Conclusion | Key Points | References | Suggested Readings
Excerpt
Interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) is a practical,
intuitively reasonable treatment for depression that incorporates
strategies used in general psychiatric practice and thus has face
validity for practicing clinicians (Weissman et al. 2000, 2007). Readers new to
IPT will find that much of what we describe below sounds familiar
and overlaps with other psychotherapies. Therefore, on one level,
IPT demands few novel skills from therapists and is relatively easy
to learn.