Casebook of Interpersonal Psychotherapy - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199746907 ISBN 13: 9780199746903

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2012

Synopsis

Interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT), an empirically validated treatment for depression and other disorders, is becoming more frequently used to treat a range of psychiatric diagnoses. Based on evidence that interpersonal problems contribute to the onset of psychiatric disorders, IPT helps patients to change interpersonal behavior in order to improve psychosocial functioning and relieve symptoms. IPT both relieves psychiatric symptoms and helps to build social skills.

Bringing together experts who have treated patients with and conducted clinical research on IPT, the Casebook of Interpersonal Psychotherapy responds to the growing need for a foundational text to supplement the available manuals on IPT. The Casebook provides a wealth of real life treatment material, and illustrates the use of IPT in the hands of expert psychotherapists treating patients with a range of conditions and complications in different IPT treatment formats. The detailed cases give a sense of how IPT proceeds and how it works. Chapter authors describe specific adaptations of IPT for patients with particular disorders, including mood disorders, anxiety disorders, eating disorders, and personality disorders. The book also covers different contexts in which IPT may be practiced, including group therapy, inpatient settings, and telephone therapy. The Casebook of Interpersonal Psychotherapy is an invaluable resource for psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, psychiatric nurses, and other mental health professionals interested in psychotherapy.

About this title

About the Author:

John C. Markowitz, M.D. is a Research Psychiatrist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, and Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York City.

Myrna M. Weissman, Ph.D. is a Professor of Epidemiology in Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University and Chief of the Division of Epidemiology at New York State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI).

Review:

"In my view, all trainees and advanced clinicians wishing to learn IPT or to hone their general psychotherapy skills will stand to benefit considerably from reading and studying this welcome and edifying book. And, although I have been teaching IPT formally and informally to residents as well as to others for several decades, I know that from now on, I'll personally be using the Casebook of Interpersonal Psychotherapy to enrich my instruction." -- JOEL YAGER, M.D., American Journal of Psychiatry

"In the meantime, for clinicians working on the front lines in a highly pressured
managed-care environment, Markowitz and Weissman have provided a clear set of
therapeutic techniques for a wide range of disorders with an easily assimilable theory
supported by research and presented in the medical lingua franca of our evidence-based
culture. As they themselves urge at the end of the book, now it's time for their readers to let them know whether IPT actually makes sense and works for them." -- PsycCRITIQUES

"This book is an important addition to the literature on brief psychotherapy. It will be useful to both the novice and the experienced psychotherapist. It will prod therapists who primarily provide more extensive psychotherapies to consider more actively when a brief therapy such as IPT may allow the patient to achieve meaningful and lasting change. Additionally, the extensive bibliography is an excellent resource for those wishing to learn more about psychotherapy research." -- Journal of Clinical Psychiatry

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0199746907
• ISBN 13: 9780199746903
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 504
• Editor: Markowitz John C.