Interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) is an empirically validated, replicable model for time-limited treatment of individual depression. This study brings together advances of IPT with the goals, tasks, and techniques of group therapy, to provide a cost-effective protocol within which the clinician has flexibility to apply a range of effective techniques. Discussion encompasses background and theory, individual assessment and pregroup preparation, conducting the group, and clinical and training issues. Wilfley is associate professor of psychology and director of the Center for Eating and Weight Disorders, San Diego State University/University of California. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
"This is the first-ever application to group therapy of the popular, replicable, time-limited, evidence-based approach initially developed to treat individual depression. Denise Wilfley adapted it in t"
This is the first-ever application to group therapy of the popular, replicable, time-limited, evidence-based approach initially developed to treat individual depression. Denise Wilfley adapted it in the course of researching the management of eating disorders; her collaborators include a national authority on group work plus an originator of Interpersonal Psychotherapy. Their step-by-step identification of the goals, tasks, and techniques attendant on running normalizing, cost-effective groups makes a real contribution to the clinical repertoire.
