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- Title
Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) in the perinatal context.
- Authors
Omay, Oguz; Stuart, Scott
- Abstract
Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) is an Evidence-Based Psychotherapy for adults and adolescents. It has demonstrated efficacy for affective disorders, anxiety disorders, eating disorders, PTSD and perinatal depression. IPT has also been demonstrated to be efficacious as a maintenance treatment to prevent relapse of depression. IPT has been demonstrated to be effective when delivered in a variety of settings, including mental health clinics and school-based clinics. IPT is based on an attachment model, in which distress is tied to difficulty in interpersonal relationships. The targets of IPT are not only symptoms, but also improvement in interpersonal functioning and relationships as well as improved social support. Therapy focuses on one or more interpersonal problem areas, including Interpersonal Disputes, Role Transitions, and Grief and Loss Issues. IPT is time-limited, and typical courses of therapy last from 8-20 sessions, which are tapered over time. IPT has several advantages in addition to its well-established efficacy. It is intuitively appealing both to clients and therapists. This is largely because interpersonal problems are nearly always what lead people to seek or be referred to treatment. Having a therapy that addresses these issues directly is a strength of IPT. The evidence base for IPT is vastly more extensive than any treatment aside from CBT, with over 250 published studies now demonstrating IPT's efficacy. IPT is efficacious for the ages ranging from 9 to the very elderly; there is more data and literature demonstrating the efficacy of IPT with geriatric patients than any other psychotherapy. IPT is now widely used for the treatment of mood disorders during the perinatal period. IPT is recommended as a first line treatment for perinatal women, both because of its efficacy and because of concerns about medication usage during pregnancy and breastfeeding. Clinicians working with perinatal women and their families should be familiar with IPT in order to provide the highest quality treatment. During this panel, we will present the use of IPT in pregnant and postnatal women, for whom it is an empirically validated treatment of choice for depression. During the Congress, the theoretical basis of IPT and its techniques will be presented at another panel, in comparison with other psychotherapies.
- Subjects
INTERPERSONAL psychotherapy; AFFECTIVE disorders; DISEASE relapse prevention
- Publication
Klinik Psikofarmakoloji Bulteni, 2013, Vol 23, pS1
- ISSN
1017-7833
- Publication type
Abstract