IPT is especially helpful for patients whose stressful, interpersonal life events are associated with illness onset. These include loss or grief, life changes in social roles, conflicts in close relationships, and interpersonal sensitivities or loneliness.
Learn how to implement this affect-focused, evidence-based approach and use relational theories of attachment and mentalizing in treating depression and mood disorders.
This combination of in-person and interactive, online training introduces the theoretical foundations and clinical guidelines for helping patients with depression in the contexts of universal, commonly occurring relational life events that are often associated with the onset or worsening of symptoms. With an emphasis on case-based learning and formative feedback, learners will develop skills to confidently implement IPT in their own practices through a live in person workshop, 3 live webinars and self-directed e-modules.
Learning Objectives
Describe IPT phase- and focus-specific therapeutic guidelines for case formulation and for credentialed practitioners, to work through and help patients to cope with relational life events of loss, change, conflict and isolation that are associated with the onset or worsening of depression
Use the IPT tasks of conducting interpersonal inventories and communication analyses to reflect with patients on their relationships, and discover ways to improve reciprocity and interpersonal effectiveness in relationships
Appreciate and therapeutically respond to individual patient differences, e.g., in attachment patterns of relating and culture
