This course provides foundational training in Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT), an evidence-supported, brief (8-16 session) structured, transdiagnostic, evidence-supported treatment recommended by the World Health Organization for patients across the lifespan including culturally diverse clinical populations with depression in primary care, schools, prisons and both outpatient and inpatient settings.

IPT focuses on the centrality of relationships in illness, recovery, and resilience for mental health, and helps patients in the contexts of stressful life events that are associated with symptom onset or worsening. Fostering reciprocal social connections with supportive others, and working through triggering interpersonal experiences of grief, social role transitions, and relational disputes, IPT’s affect-focused therapeutic guidelines aid patients to improve communication and problem-solving in relationships.

This course on IPT for depression is comprised of half-day 3.0 hour live group workshop, 3 x 1.5-hour skills-focused webinars which includes small group practicing, 6.5 hours of self-directed asynchronous case-based interactive online learning in a closed classroom, and 1 hour of readings. The online curriculum features videorecorded demonstrations by IPT experts with standardized patient-actors, and 30 quizzes to consolidate learning.