Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Depressed Adolescents

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Laura Mufson
Guilford Press, 2004 M04 22 - 315 pages
Grounded in extensive research and clinical experience, this manual provides a complete guide to interpersonal psychotherapy for depressed adolescents (IPT-A). IPT-A is an evidence-based brief intervention designed to meet the specific developmental needs of teenagers. Clinicians learn how to educate adolescents and their families about depression, work with associated relationship difficulties, and help clients manage their symptoms while developing more effective communication and interpersonal problem-solving skills. The book includes illustrative clinical vignettes, an extended case example, and information on the model's conceptual and empirical underpinnings. Helpful session checklists and sample assessment tools are featured in the appendices.

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Contents

The Nature of Depression
3
Current Psychosocial Treatments
12
The Origins and Development of Interpersonal
19
Application of Interpersonal Therapy
31
Conducting Session 1 in IPTA
40
Initiating the Interpersonal Interview
54
Selecting the Problem Area and Making
63
The Middle Phase of IPTA
73
Developing Social Support for Transitions
160
Termination Phase
179
Clinical Issues in the TherapistPatient Relationship
203
Special Clinical Situations
216
Crisis Management
227
The Use of Medication in Conjunction with IPTA
234
Current and Future Research in IPTA
243
A Comprehensive Description
251

Therapeutic Techniques
82
Grief
110
Interpersonal Role Disputes
126
The Role of Parents in the Treatment
137
Interpersonal Role Transitions
143
Reviewing Old and New Roles
152
How to Query
281
References
291
203
301
Index
307
216
309
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About the author (2004)

Laura Mufson, PhD, is Director of the Department of Clinical Psychology at the New York State Psychiatric Institute and Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology in Psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Mufson was the first to adapt interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) for adolescents and has been conducting research on interpersonal psychotherapy for depressed adolescents for over a decade. She travels extensively, training clinicians in treatment techniques for IPT.

Kristen Pollack Dorta, PhD, is a clinical psychologist currently in private practice. Dr. Dorta has been instrumental in the implementation of interpersonal psychotherapy for depressed adolescents in school-based mental health clinics and the training of school-based clinicians. ? Donna Moreau, MD, is in private practice in New York City. Previously she was Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and Director of the Children's Anxiety and Depression Clinic at Children's Hospital of New York-Presbyterian Hospital. ? Myrna M. Weissman, PhD, one of the originators of interpersonal psychotherapy, is Professor of Psychiatry and Epidemiology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health. She is also Director of the Division of Clinical and Genetic Epidemiology at the New York State Psychiatric Institute and has published extensively on interpersonal psychotherapy, including coauthoring (with John C. Markowitz and Gerald L. Klerman) A Comprehensive Guide to Interpersonal Psychotherapy.

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