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Abstract

Objectives:

There are limited options for depressed patients to have access to evidence-based psychotherapies in the community. This pilot study explored the feasibility of delivering interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) to clients in a community support agency.

Method:

A total of 18 clients with depression completed at least eight sessions of IPT (range 8–13) and 17 completed a range of pre- and post-treatment measures.

Results:

Clients had a high level of depression and were functioning poorly. All found the delivery of IPT in the community useful and would recommend therapy to others. There was a significant reduction in self-report and clinician-rated depression, and improvement in social functioning.

Conclusions:

This study supports the notion that therapy can be delivered by appropriately trained non-mental-health clinicians in the community with good effect and adds to the range of options for delivery of psychiatric care.

Keywords

Short-term psychotherapy IPT interpersonal psychotherapy community agencies

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Can interpersonal psychotherapy be delivered by a community agency?

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