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Interpersonal therapy is a short term form of treatment that helps individuals to understand interpersonal issues that are troublesome. This includes unresolved grief, conflicts with significant others, changes in social or work roles, and problems relating to others. This approach helps individuals to learn healthier ways to express emotions, how to improve communication, and how they relate to others. This approach is most often used to treat depression.

Interpersonal Therapy

In the 1970s, Klerman and colleagues aimed to examine the efficacy of IPT in treating major depressive disorders in repeated randomized trials. The use of Interpersonal therapy has been demonstrated for mood and non-mood-related disorders in several countries. IPT has been tested in clinical trials for specific proposed applications, and not as a treatment for all disorders. 

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