Interpersonal Psychotherapy: Key tasks of IPT assessment ESTABLISHING DIAGNOSIS AND INTERPERSONAL ACTIVATION

IPT is integrative, in that it combines thinking most characteristic of a medical model – using explicit diagnosis, validating the difficulty of living with depression and emphasising the responsibilities arising from the role of patient, and more dynamically rooted ideas of reciprocal and repeating patterns of relationships, vulnerability arising from broken attachments, and the disadvantage to healthy living consequent to an inability to establish or maintain a meaningful and functionally diverse interpersonal network.