Interpersonal Therapy Cases
Interpersonal Therapy Case Study of Susan
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Interpersonal therapy is short-term therapy for depression and other problems that looks for solutions and strategies to deal with interpersonal problems rather than spending time on interpretation and analysis. In the initial stages of interpersonal therapy, therapeutic goals typically include diagnosis, completing the requisite inventories, identifying the client 's major problem areas, and creating a treatment contract.
PRESENTING PROBLEM
This case study is about Susan, a young lady in her early twenties. She came to see me because her office manager had recommended that she should consult a professional to help her with her anger management problems.
At first glance, she looked like a very …show more content…
Interpersonal therapy is, however, distinctive for its brevity and its treatment focus. Interpersonal therapy emphasizes the ways in which a person 's current relationships and social context cause or maintain symptoms rather than exploring the deep-seated sources of the symptoms. Its goals are rapid symptom reduction and improved social adjustment. A frequent byproduct of interpersonal therapy treatment is more satisfying relationships in the present which is what we also focused on in our treatment of …show more content…
Further, I asked her to make a list of things doing which she felt inner peace, and incorporate them also into her daily schedule.
In the next session, I asked her if she did as we had planned. I confirmed that she had gone on a lunch with her friends and one of them had called her over for dinner this weekend. She said that she was feeling a bit lighter now since she was not always on the defensive and was making an effort to take things in stride.
With her husband, she told me that she had a long talk about how she was feeling, and how this could have been as a result of her coping strategy which she has been following throughout her life. She said that her husband very understood about the whole thing and promised to help her in any way he could.
She had also enrolled for guitar lessons which she said were one of her passions when she was a child, but had left them while growing up. Playing the guitar again made her relax and she said that now she did not become as agitated about things as much as she used to in the
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Interpersonal therapy is short-term therapy for depression and other problems that looks for solutions and strategies to deal with interpersonal problems rather than spending time on interpretation and analysis. In the initial stages of interpersonal therapy, therapeutic goals typically include diagnosis, completing the requisite inventories, identifying the client 's major problem areas, and creating a treatment contract.
PRESENTING PROBLEM
This case study is about Susan, a young lady in her early twenties. She came to see me because her office manager had recommended that she should consult a professional to help her with her anger management problems.
At first glance, she looked like a very …show more content…
Interpersonal therapy is, however, distinctive for its brevity and its treatment focus. Interpersonal therapy emphasizes the ways in which a person 's current relationships and social context cause or maintain symptoms rather than exploring the deep-seated sources of the symptoms. Its goals are rapid symptom reduction and improved social adjustment. A frequent byproduct of interpersonal therapy treatment is more satisfying relationships in the present which is what we also focused on in our treatment of …show more content…
Further, I asked her to make a list of things doing which she felt inner peace, and incorporate them also into her daily schedule.
In the next session, I asked her if she did as we had planned. I confirmed that she had gone on a lunch with her friends and one of them had called her over for dinner this weekend. She said that she was feeling a bit lighter now since she was not always on the defensive and was making an effort to take things in stride.
With her husband, she told me that she had a long talk about how she was feeling, and how this could have been as a result of her coping strategy which she has been following throughout her life. She said that her husband very understood about the whole thing and promised to help her in any way he could.
She had also enrolled for guitar lessons which she said were one of her passions when she was a child, but had left them while growing up. Playing the guitar again made her relax and she said that now she did not become as agitated about things as much as she used to in the