Interpersonal Therapy for Role Transitions
The loss of a Perfect Family
Interpersonal Psychotherapy (ITP) was developed by Gerald Klerman based on previous works on the concept of how personality could never be isolated for their interpersonal relationships Austad, C. S. (2009). Klerman designed ITP to help people with their anxiety and depression symptoms to address their current concerns and to increase their interpersonal relationships, because people with depressive symptoms experienced severe problems in their interpersonal relationships. ITP has a unique feature an it is also to address the roles and changes in the client’s relationships that were affected with their depression (Austad, C. S. 2099).
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This is reflected in a situation in which a person needs to adapt to a change in his or her life. Some of this changes can be small or normal. For example, like transitioning from high school to college, or a bigger change like marrying, having a child or been divorce (Austad, C. S. 2099). Those changes predisposed to depression and may feel these experience as traumatic, as a result they could feel as they had suffered a loss, or they loss control of their lives (Austad, C. S. 2099). The role of Interpersonal Psychotherapy on people with problems in their Role Transitions is to help to identify the sources of conflict in their new role in their life, also to help them if they developed distress to manage their experience of loss (Robertson, Rushton, & Wurm, 2008). In this Role Play Luz before, during, and after her divorce she was seeing Dr. James but, after six months of seeing him, he refers her to Dr. Williams a specialist on Interpersonal Therapy. The type of therapy that Luz needed for her depression and her inability to had a perfect interpersonal interaction in Luz’s life and also, she was dealing with communication problems with her family a consequence of her new role transition as a single mother (Robertson al. …show more content…
She was costume to had a perfect family which include; The perfect husband, the perfect kids, and the perfect social life, with friends and parties. But when she loss it, she also loss control of her life, it was not anymore her life, she was living without living in it. At the beginning of her session with Dr. Williams, Luz was open and willing to cooperate with this new therapy, and with the processes of how this intervention was set up. As Interpersonal Therapy Manual describe Dr Williams use the open questions leading luz to freely express herself. Some of this questions were about her past relationships, and how she feels about it. That way the Therapist could made connection with the patient and develop trust that is necessary to had a good Therapy (Robertson, et al., 2008). The next step of the Therapy is to focus on the relevant problem examining the characteristics of the patient’s behavior (Robertson, et al., 2008). In Luz’s case, she is isolating herself all the time, she does not enjoy life anymore, she is sad all the time, and she was having anger issues with everybody, even with her kids, she does not tolerate them, her own words was “they frustrated me all the time, she lost her patience with them. When before the divorce she was a perfect wife, and the perfect mother. This was the perfect example of how the Therapist bring out her behavior change to life, how the new role as a single
The loss of a Perfect Family
Interpersonal Psychotherapy (ITP) was developed by Gerald Klerman based on previous works on the concept of how personality could never be isolated for their interpersonal relationships Austad, C. S. (2009). Klerman designed ITP to help people with their anxiety and depression symptoms to address their current concerns and to increase their interpersonal relationships, because people with depressive symptoms experienced severe problems in their interpersonal relationships. ITP has a unique feature an it is also to address the roles and changes in the client’s relationships that were affected with their depression (Austad, C. S. 2099).
The emphasis of the Interpersonal …show more content…
This is reflected in a situation in which a person needs to adapt to a change in his or her life. Some of this changes can be small or normal. For example, like transitioning from high school to college, or a bigger change like marrying, having a child or been divorce (Austad, C. S. 2099). Those changes predisposed to depression and may feel these experience as traumatic, as a result they could feel as they had suffered a loss, or they loss control of their lives (Austad, C. S. 2099). The role of Interpersonal Psychotherapy on people with problems in their Role Transitions is to help to identify the sources of conflict in their new role in their life, also to help them if they developed distress to manage their experience of loss (Robertson, Rushton, & Wurm, 2008). In this Role Play Luz before, during, and after her divorce she was seeing Dr. James but, after six months of seeing him, he refers her to Dr. Williams a specialist on Interpersonal Therapy. The type of therapy that Luz needed for her depression and her inability to had a perfect interpersonal interaction in Luz’s life and also, she was dealing with communication problems with her family a consequence of her new role transition as a single mother (Robertson al. …show more content…
She was costume to had a perfect family which include; The perfect husband, the perfect kids, and the perfect social life, with friends and parties. But when she loss it, she also loss control of her life, it was not anymore her life, she was living without living in it. At the beginning of her session with Dr. Williams, Luz was open and willing to cooperate with this new therapy, and with the processes of how this intervention was set up. As Interpersonal Therapy Manual describe Dr Williams use the open questions leading luz to freely express herself. Some of this questions were about her past relationships, and how she feels about it. That way the Therapist could made connection with the patient and develop trust that is necessary to had a good Therapy (Robertson, et al., 2008). The next step of the Therapy is to focus on the relevant problem examining the characteristics of the patient’s behavior (Robertson, et al., 2008). In Luz’s case, she is isolating herself all the time, she does not enjoy life anymore, she is sad all the time, and she was having anger issues with everybody, even with her kids, she does not tolerate them, her own words was “they frustrated me all the time, she lost her patience with them. When before the divorce she was a perfect wife, and the perfect mother. This was the perfect example of how the Therapist bring out her behavior change to life, how the new role as a single