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Is interpersonal psychotherapy in group format a therapeutic option in late‐life depression?
Author(s) -
Scocco Paolo,
De Leo Diego,
Frank Ellen
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
clinical psychology and psychotherapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.315
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1099-0879
pISSN - 1063-3995
DOI - 10.1002/cpp.301
Subject(s) - interpersonal psychotherapy , psychotherapist , psychology , interpersonal communication , depression (economics) , group psychotherapy , interpersonal relationship , clinical psychology , medicine , social psychology , randomized controlled trial , economics , macroeconomics
Individual interpersonal psychotherapy, alone or in combination with pharmacological therapy, has proved effective in the treatment of late‐life depression. In this paper we present an application of interpersonal psychotherapy in a group format (IPT‐G) to treat depressed elderly patients and describe how this individual therapy was adapted to a group setting. The group format seems to lend itself to the interpersonal approach and provides some advantages over the individual setting. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.