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Implementing Interpersonal Psychotherapy in a Psychiatry Residency Training Program

Received January 28, 2005; revised February 3, 2006; accepted February 28, 2006. Drs. Lichtmacher, Eisendrath, and Haller are affiliated with the Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California. Address correspondence to Dr. Lichtmacher, 143 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94117; JonathanL{at}LPPI.ucsf.edu (E-mail). Copyright © 2006 Academic Psychiatry.

OBJECTIVE: Interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) for depression is a brief, well researched treatment for acute major depression. This article describes the implementation of IPT as an evidence-based treatment for depression in a psychiatry residency program.METHOD: The authors tracked the implementation process over 5 years as interpersonal psychotherapy was systematically incorporated into residency training. RESULTS: The authors outline key ingredients for and challenges to effecting change. CONCLUSIONS: Implementation of interpersonal psychotherapy in psychiatry residency training was a cornerstone for learning evidence-based treatment approaches as well as for conveying core psychotherapy concepts.

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