This paper studies the idea of how interpersonal therapy works with and to improve (reduce) depression. In a number of articles, the response to what this style of therapy is aimed at and how it works will be brought upon with results from studies who have seen the outcomes from trials rooted on this topic. In a few of these articles the way that improvement with interpersonal therapy is measured is through a person’s characteristics, for example a person’s openness to experience or their conscientiousness. Another idea viewed in these articles is how a person themselves may affect or alter the results to interpersonal therapy with their personality. Interpersonal therapy is discussed in the matter of how accurate the treatment is to causing
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In the following paragraphs and articles the focus will narrow down on one specific method that was used during most of the studies, interpersonal therapy (IPT) which is also tied to psychotherapy. This method involves the individual (the patient) that suffers with depression and another individual who is usually a therapist that is there to help and treat the patient. Dermody and Quilty (2016) have taken ITP and compared it to cognitive behavior therapy which has always been a competitor in the race to treat depression. ITP has proven to excel more in needed qualities or characteristics of individuals which by reason makes ITP a more preferable method with pretreatment for depression. Furthermore, after the treatment period of the individual, ITP is analyzed once more and brings similar results as in the pretreatment period which concludes with causing a better improvement (reduction) in the individual’s depression. The way that this conclusion is made is with the use of the “Five-Factor Model traits,” which includes some of the indicators that are measured through the trials as mentioned before and affect the results on how a patient has responded to the depression treatment. In the following paper deeper examination of Dermody and Quilty’s conclusion will be proven and further explained and agreed upon by different evidence of their own research and of other fellows who have studied the same idea as both …show more content…
This particular issue or idea takes out the possibility of the patient altering the results of the treatment in the period of the trial. In other words, a showing of emotions or attachment to the patient avoids the patient submitting to the therapist and doing what is asked for. This is something to be avoided as making believe that the therapy is certainly working and improving the treatment of their depression is not safe for the patient. In Working With Feelings by Coleman, Coombs, and Jones they conduct a study that explores the idea of showing expression in IPT sessions between a patient and therapist. In the article these three authors explore three different factors that each implied an emotional attachment in a different form. For each factor there was different results since cognitive behavioral therapy was also being studied and analyzed. In all of the three factors IPT seemed to have been a motif to show an advancement in the treatment of the individual. Coombs, Coleman, and Jones state, “The IPT of therapy views emotion as providing essential and reliable information about the patient’s interpersonal experience, which is to elicited, understood, and worked through” (2016,
In the following paragraphs and articles the focus will narrow down on one specific method that was used during most of the studies, interpersonal therapy (IPT) which is also tied to psychotherapy. This method involves the individual (the patient) that suffers with depression and another individual who is usually a therapist that is there to help and treat the patient. Dermody and Quilty (2016) have taken ITP and compared it to cognitive behavior therapy which has always been a competitor in the race to treat depression. ITP has proven to excel more in needed qualities or characteristics of individuals which by reason makes ITP a more preferable method with pretreatment for depression. Furthermore, after the treatment period of the individual, ITP is analyzed once more and brings similar results as in the pretreatment period which concludes with causing a better improvement (reduction) in the individual’s depression. The way that this conclusion is made is with the use of the “Five-Factor Model traits,” which includes some of the indicators that are measured through the trials as mentioned before and affect the results on how a patient has responded to the depression treatment. In the following paper deeper examination of Dermody and Quilty’s conclusion will be proven and further explained and agreed upon by different evidence of their own research and of other fellows who have studied the same idea as both …show more content…
This particular issue or idea takes out the possibility of the patient altering the results of the treatment in the period of the trial. In other words, a showing of emotions or attachment to the patient avoids the patient submitting to the therapist and doing what is asked for. This is something to be avoided as making believe that the therapy is certainly working and improving the treatment of their depression is not safe for the patient. In Working With Feelings by Coleman, Coombs, and Jones they conduct a study that explores the idea of showing expression in IPT sessions between a patient and therapist. In the article these three authors explore three different factors that each implied an emotional attachment in a different form. For each factor there was different results since cognitive behavioral therapy was also being studied and analyzed. In all of the three factors IPT seemed to have been a motif to show an advancement in the treatment of the individual. Coombs, Coleman, and Jones state, “The IPT of therapy views emotion as providing essential and reliable information about the patient’s interpersonal experience, which is to elicited, understood, and worked through” (2016,