On December 7, 2022, Dr. Laura Mufson of Columbia University offers a free webinar, “It Is All About Relationships: Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Adolescents with Depression” as part of the Alan Hu Foundation Mental Health Lecture Series.
4:32 Adolescent depression
18:12 Interpersonal risk factors for adolescent depression
20:42 Treatment of depression with IPT-A
27:28 Three phases of treatment
30:37 Initial phase: core tasks
44:19 Middle phase sessions
52:24 Termination phase: tasks
Dr. Mufson explains, “Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Depressed Adolescents (IPT-A) is a 12-15 session individual treatment for adolescents 12-18 years old that focuses on reducing depressive symptoms and improving interpersonal relationships and social functioning. This presentation will provide participants with an overview of IPT-A principles as well as key IPT-A strategies and techniques.”
Laura Mufson, PhD, is the Viola W. Bernard Professor of Medical Psychology in Psychiatry at Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC) and Associate Director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, and Director of Clinical Psychology at New York State Psychiatric Institute. Dr. Mufson has had an active research career studying the efficacy and effectiveness of evidence-based psychotherapies for children and adolescents. She is the author of 3 books and many publications on IPT-A, is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, and has conducted numerous training workshops on IPT-A throughout the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Europe and Scandinavia.
The Mental Health Association for Chinese Communities at https://www.mhacc-usa.org provides simultaneous Chinese interpretation.
We are honored and privileged that Dr. Mufson shares the knowledge and experiences of her research on IPT-A. We are grateful to our audience for tuning in across United States as well as from Australia, Belize, Canada, China, India, Singapore, Spain, and Vietnam. Thank you, MHACC Founder and President Elaine Peng. Thank you, Ida Shaw, for simultaneous Chinese Interpretation.