American Journal of Psychotherapy

Publication date: 13 March 2023

Objective: Interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) is an evidence-based treatment for depression, demonstrating efficacy with adolescents and young adults. Social support is proposed to be an important treatment component and may be helpful for adolescents and ...

Publication date: 07 April 2023

Objective: Evidence-based practice (EBP) is the preferred approach to treatment in mental health settings because it involves the integration of the best available research, clinical expertise, and patient values to optimize patient outcomes. Training on ...

Publication date: 28 April 2023

Objective: Child therapy outcomes research has indicated that involving parents in child mental health treatments is generally beneficial. This study aimed to explore clinicians’ decisions to involve parents in treatment for childhood disorders and child-, ...

Publication date: 19 May 2023

Objective: Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) individuals report higher rates of exposure to traumatic events and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) compared with heterosexual and cisgender individuals. No treatment outcomes research ...

Publication date: 16 February 2023

Objective: Brief dynamic interpersonal therapy (DIT) is an evidence-based psychodynamic intervention for depression offered by the U.K. National Health Service and previously studied in the context of a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs medical center. ...

Publication date: 14 April 2023

Objective: Interpersonal psychotherapy for adolescents (IPT-A) aims to treat depression by addressing one of four problem areas: grief, role disputes, role transitions, or interpersonal deficits. This study compared the characteristics of adolescents by ...