Stages of Interpersonal Psychotherapy
Stages of Interpersonal Psychotherapy
The FIRST FOUR SESSIONS of IPT constitute the assessment phase. The tasks for this phase include the following:
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During the MIDDLE SESSIONS, the task is to help the patient discuss the weekly experiences that are related to the identified interpersonal area for work. The therapist helps the patient to link the weekly onset of symptoms to the interpersonal context or vice versa, clarify the issues and themes that emerge, and attend to the associated emotional experience.
These sessions open with a general question about how the patient has been since the last meeting (i.e. focusing the patient on here-and-now concerns and events), and strategies are selected and implemented as appropriate to the stage of therapy, and the experiences of the week. |