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Interpersonal Psychotherapy
It appears that there is a significant amount of utility in interpersonal psychotherapy. This utility extends beyond that of the patient and also includes a degree of usefulness for the therapist and for afflictions involving both mood disorders and non-mood disorders. Interpersonal psychotherapy seems like a viable option for helping patients to assert themselves and their control over their own lives and happiness. In consideration of these reasons, I would advocate utilizing this methodology for a variety of therapeutic applications and am all but convinced at the sort of good it can produce in the process.
Perhaps the principle reason that I am in favor of interpersonal psychotherapy is that many of its core tenets are aligned with my personal worldview. For instance, one of the fundamental principles of this psychological approach is that there is a direct correlation between one's environment and the forces that it asserts on the individual. Therapists are assigned with the responsibility of deconstructing the "interpersonal context" of the depression patients experience (Verdelli and Weissman, date, p. 353). I have long subscribed to this notion as it applies to various facets of psychology and to life in general. Psychotherapy not only buttresses this viewpoint, but is largely based on deriving action from it. In particular, there is a proclivity for patients (particularly those suffering from mood disorders such as myriad forms of clinical depression) to internalize their depression...
Interpersonal psychotherapy, however, is able to curb this perception and help to get to the root of the issues that are troubling patients by forcing them to examine the external, environmental factors that have detrimentally affected them internally.
Another facet of this theory that I found profound and which appears to be of great benefit to patients is the fact that it treats the maladies that are affecting patients as illnesses. Again, many patients may believe that there is something wrong with themselves and that it is their faults for their feelings and the things that are negatively impacting their lives. Interpersonal psychotherapy, however, adheres to the philosophy that patients are suffering from an illness -- one that is finite and which is ultimately curable. This fact resonates with me because it implies that patients are not bad people or individuals who have things intrinsically wrong with them. Moreover, this aspect of the theory provides hope and lets patients know that they can move beyond their respective problems if they are willing to listen to the therapist, follow his or her approach, and do the work required of them to move on. There are other theories in which this sort of hope (Verdelli and Weissman, date, p. 352) (or perhaps even redemption) is not ingrained in the actual theorem itself. The main reason I give a lot of credence to interpersonal psychotherapy is because it is partly based on the concept that the patient's afflictions…
References
Wedding, D., Corsini, R.J. (2014). Current Psychotherapies.
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