ArticleAmerican journal of psychotherapy
Interpersonal Counseling (IPC) for Depression in Primary Care.
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- The efficacy of antidepressant medication versus interpersonal psychotherapy for depression in middle-aged women: a systematic review and individual participant data meta-analysis.Archives of women's mental health · 2026Pooled it
- Interventions Targeting Depression and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in United States Black Women Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence: A Systematic Review.Trauma, violence & abuse · 2024Pooled it
- Adaptations of interpersonal psychotherapy in psycho-oncology and its effects on distress, depression, and anxiety in patients with cancer: a systematic review.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Pooled it
- The Effectiveness of Individual Mental Health Interventions for Depressive, Anxiety and Conduct Disorder Symptoms in School Environment for Adolescents Aged 12-18-A Systematic Review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Pooled it
- Providers' perspectives of barriers and facilitators to scale-up of mental health care in the public health delivery system of Mozambique: a qualitative inquiry.BMC health services research · 2024Trial
- Cost-effectiveness of train-the-trainer versus expert consultation training models for implementing interpersonal psychotherapy in college mental health settings: evidence from a national cluster randomized trial.Implementation science : IS · 2024Trial
- Technology and implementation science to forge the future of evidence-based psychotherapies: the PRIDE scale-up study.Evidence-based mental health · 2021Trial
- Training Models for Implementing Evidence-Based Psychological Treatment: A Cluster-Randomized Trial in College Counseling Centers.JAMA psychiatry · 2020Trial
- Task shifting interpersonal counseling for depression: a pragmatic randomized controlled trial in primary care.BMC psychiatry · 2017Trial
- A review on mental health challenges and interventions in the context of pandemics, terrorism, war and armed conflicts.Discover mental health · 2026Review
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- Stakeholder engagement to co-design implementation strategies for integrating depression management into HIV care services in Senegal.Implementation science communications · 2025Article
- Synchronous tele-interpersonal psychotherapy versus tele-cognitive behavioural therapy for adults: which works better? Results from a randomised clinical trial.General psychiatry · 2025Article
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- Barriers and Facilitators to Integrating Depression Treatment Within a TB Program and Primary Care in Brazil.Health promotion practice · 2024Article
- Task Sharing and Remote Delivery of Brief Interpersonal Counseling for Venezuelan Migrants and Refugees Living in Peru during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Mixed-Methods Pilot Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Doing research in non-specialist mental health services for children and young people: lessons learnt from a process evaluation of the ICALM (Interpersonal Counselling for Adolescent Low Mood) feasibility randomised controlled trial.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2024Article
- Community-informed perspectives of implementing interpersonal psychotherapy for couples to reduce situational intimate partner violence and improve common mental disorders in Mozambique.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2024Article
- Leveraging Social Networks to Integrate Depression Treatment into Primary Health and Tuberculosis Care in Brazil.Current psychiatry research and reviews · 2024Article
- Global health reciprocal innovation to address mental health and well-being: strategies used and lessons learnt.BMJ global health · 2023Review
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Abstract
Interpersonal Counseling (IPC) comes directly from interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT), an evidenced-based psychotherapy developed by Klerman and Weissman. It [IPC?] is a briefer, more structured version for use primarily in non-mental health settings, such as primary care clinics when treating patients with symptoms of depression. National health-care reform, which will bring previously uninsured persons into care and provide mechanisms to support mental health training of primary care providers, will increase interest in briefer psychotherapy. This paper describes the rationale, development, evidence for efficacy, and basic structure of IPC and also presents an illustrated clinical vignette. The evidence suggests that IPC is efficacious in reducing symptoms of depression; that it can be used by mental health personnel of different levels of training, and that the number of sessions is flexible depending on the context and resources. More clinical trials are needed, especially ones comparing IPC to other types of care used in the delivery of mental health services in primary care.
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