About Interpersonal Psychotherapy Training (IPT)
IPT is a treatment for depression in adults, adolescents, and pre-adolescents recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).
This therapy is based on the idea that depression responds to and influences what happens in our relationships. Just as relationship difficulties can lower our mood, so meaningful and supportive relationships can help us to feel better.
IPT has two simple aims - to reduce the impact of symptoms of depression and to resolve current relationship difficulties. IPT organises therapy around commonly experienced relationship difficulties, described as focal areas. These are disputes in an important relationship, adjusting to significant changes, bereavement and difficulty making and maintaining meaningful relationships. Many people experience more than one of these difficulties but having a focus can help to contain the work and give it clear direction. Goals that are linked to the focal area are agreed and this helps to personalise this process for each person.
What is IPT? Watch a webinar recording from Dr Roslyn Law, course lead
Training offer
Meet the experts
Dr Roslyn Law
Consultant Clinical Psychologist
A Consultant Clinical Psychologist working with children, adolescents and adults. Specialises in Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT), Cognitive Analytic Therapy and Mentalization based approaches.
Publications
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Deafeating Depression
DownloadThis ground-breaking self-help book is based on Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT), a therapeutic approach being adopted by the government’s nationwide NHS Talking Therapies for Depression and Anxiety programme, alongside Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. The author, Dr Roslyn Law, is one of the UK’s leading authorities on IPT.
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Guide
DownloadThis practical guide uses techniques based on Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Adolescents (IPT-A) which has been used to help children and young people with depression around the world. IPT-A helps you to develop your own story of what is happening in your life so that you can understand your depression and how to get out of it.
Links
IPT UK (The Interpersonal Psychotherapy UK Network)
International Society of Interpersonal Psychotherapy (a multidisciplinary, non-commercial, international organization committed to the advancement of IPT by scientific research, training and dissemination)
CYP IAPT PG Diploma UCL (Postgraduate Diploma Children & Young People's IAPT Therapy: Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Adolescents)