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What is Interpersonal Therapy?

Interpersonal therapy (IPT) is a short-term supportive psychotherapy that focuses on the connection between interactions between people and the development of a person's psychiatric symptoms.

Reasons & Efficacy

Reasons and Efficacy
Reasons # of patients Major Moderate Slight None Can’t tell # of patients evaluated by
Other 2 1
Mental/emotional illness 1 1
General mood issue 1 0

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Side Effects

Side effects as an overall problem

Severe
0 0%
Moderate
0 0%
Mild
0 0%
None
2 100%

Schedules

  45 min weekly 50 min weekly 60 min weekly 120 min weekly
  1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1  

Stop Reasons

Why Patients Stopped Interpersonal therapy (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Other
1 100% Other: 100%
This type of therapy or counseling didn't seem to help
1 100% This type of therapy or counseling didn't seem to help: 100%

See all 1 patient who’ve stopped going to Interpersonal Therapy

How Long Current Patients Have Been In Interpersonal Therapy

0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
0
0
0
2
1

Stopped Going to Interpersonal Therapy

0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
1
0
0
0
0

Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Always
2 100%
Usually
0 0%
Sometimes
0 0%
Never
0 0%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Very
0 0%
Somewhat
0 0%
A little
2 100%
Not at all
0 0%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

$200+
0 0%
$100-199
1 50%
$50-99
0 0%
$25-49
0 0%
< $25
0 0%

Report created on November 22, 2009.