Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Depressed Adolescents - Hardcover

Laura Mufson, Ph.D., a child and adolescent clinical psychologist, is Director of Training in Child Psychology and Assistant Clinical Director of the Children's Anxiety and Depression Clinic at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, Babies Hospital. She also is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons and a Research Scientist at New York State Psychiatric Institute.

Donna Moreau, M.D., a child psychiatrist, is Director of the Children's Anxiety and Depression Clinic at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, Babies Hospital. She is an Assistant Professor of Child Psychiatry and Director of Medical Student Education in Child Psychiatry at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Myrna M. Weissman, Ph.D., is a Professor of Epidemiology in Psychiatry at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons and Chief of the Department in Clinical-Genetic Epidemiology at New York State Psychiatric Institute. She is coauthor (with Gerald L. Klerman) of Interpersonal Psychotherapy of Depression.

Gerald L. Klerman, M.D., at the time of his death in April 1992, was Professor of Psychiatry and Associate Chairman for Research in the Department of Psychiatry at Cornell University Medical Center, and attending on the staff of the Payne Whitney Clinic and Westchester Division of The New York Hospital. He was formerly the George Harrington Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and was Head of the Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration in Washington, DC in the late 1970s.

"This volume is more than a simple `how to do it' book, although it does that with great clarity. It is comprehensive and therefore likely to be useful to professionals with very different levels of training and experience....[It] addresses both scholarly and practical issues related to a very promising treatment of a common disorder. I strongly recommend it to all clinicians who treat adolescents with depression." --From the Foreword by David Shaffer, MD

"Depression is common among adolescents and especially difficult to diagnose, manage, and treat. This book provides a well-planned and practical approach that will be useful for clinicians of diverse orientations. The special strength of the book is its focus on the relationship aspects of adolescent depression. This volume shows how relationships--often a source of great difficulty for depressed adolescents--can be turned into great opportunities." --Allen Frances, MD

"Psychotherapy with adolescents has often been deemed impossible at most, frustrating at best. In a brilliant new book, the authors of INTERPERSONAL PSYCHOTHERAPY FOR DEPRESSED ADOLESCENTS provide a solution to the problem. A brief psychotherapeutic intervention for adolescents that works, IPT-A is grounded in Bowlby's attachment paradigm that anxiety and depression are part of the human condition and may become pathological states when significant losses or changes in relationships occur. It is a well-established treatment modality for adults which, unlike most psychotherapies, has been subject to as much scientific scrutiny as any drug trial. IPT-A is specifically tailored to the adolescent developmental tasks of separation, transition, and identity formation and is especially well suited for the population of adolescents who are bereaved, depressed, or experiencing interpersonal problems. A lucidly-written manual of operations describes the time-limited treatment (12 weeks) with the goals of improving the adolescents' self-esteem, clarification of the current problems including specific symptoms, and identification of effective techniques. Families are always included and other modalities, i.e., pharmacotherapy may be used in conjunction with IPT-A. Ample illustrative case vignettes are provided. I recommend INTERPERSONAL PSYCHOTHERAPY FOR DEPRESSED ADOLESCENTS to mental health professionals who work with adolescents as an important enhancement to their clinical armamentarium." --Clarice Kestenbaum, MD, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University

"Moreover, I would strongly recommend it to anyone who is involved with treatment of adolescent patients, regardless of his or her approach." --Karger


"IPT is a therapeutic approach that is highly amenable to [a] social worker's ecosystemic and family orientation. For social work practitioners and educators seeking an EST for their practice, or for training Master's level Social Work students, IPT is a good entree to a highly rigorous Evidence Based Practice....[A] strong resource for clinicians and educators....Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Depressed Adolescents...offers a good starting point for social workers in increasing their use of ESTs." (Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal 2006-02-03)

"In addition to providing a revised manual that incorporates evidence-based practices and many very helpful clinical examples, the authors provide a concise but excellent general overview of other current treatment practices for depressed adolescents....I found this book to be well-organized and easy (actually fun) to read. I found the clinical examples and tips to be useful in general terms for working with adults as well as adolescents, especially in community settings....The brief, focal nature of the therapy is very adaptable for work with adolescents in community settings." (Community Mental Health Journal 2006-10-03)