Integrated Psychological Therapy (IPT)

by Volker Roder, D. R. Müller, Hans D. Brenner, W. D. Spaulding

Overview

A practical, comprehensive guide to using Integrated Psychological Therapy (IPT) for Schizophrenia Patients - the highly successful empirically supported approach that has become a standard treatment in many psychiatric clinics around the world. The first part of this book describes and explains the basic concepts of neurocognition, social cognition, and social competency that are now allowing us a better understanding of schizophrenia. Current treatment approaches and empirical support for them are also discussed. The core of the book is a clear and structured description of the five subprograms making up IPT:
• Cognitive Differentiation
• Social Perception
• Verbal Communication
• Social Skills
• Interpersonal Problem-Solving Clinicians learn step by step how to apply the therapy techniques and to select the appropriate therapy materials (described in detail in practical appendices). The book also provides practical advice about dealing with group processes and individual dyadic situations. Differential indications, assessment, therapy planning and evaluation are presented. Therapists will also learn how to use IPT within multimodal therapy and rehabilitation efforts (case management; implementation of IPT). The final part of the book provides an overview of further developments of IPT: Integrated Neurocognitive Therapy (INT), conceptualized mainly for outpatients with better social functioning, and specific social skills programs for residential, vocational, and recreational rehabilitation (WAF).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780889373891
Publisher:	Hogrefe & Huber Publishers
Publication date:	10/01/2010
Pages:	260
Product dimensions:	7.20(w) x 10.20(h) x 0.90(d)

Table of Contents

Preface
Foreword
A. Theoretical Background and Treatment Approaches: An Overview
1 Theoretical Basis of Cognitive Behavioral Treatments
1.1 Systemic Vulnerability - Stress Models
1.2 Systemic Models in Clinical Application
2 Treatment Approaches and Empirical Results: An Overview
2.1 Psychoeducation and Family Therapy
2.2 Cognitive Behavior Therapy for (Persistent) Positive Symptoms
2.3 Social Competence Approaches
2.4 Cognitive Remediation
B. IPT: Indication, Therapy, Assessment, Evaluation
3. Conditions for Carrying Out the Therapy Program: Implementation and Indication
3.1 Institutional Conditions
3.2 Patients
3.3 Group Makeup
3.4 Therapists
3.5 Differential Indication for Carrying Out the IPT
4 The Therapy Program and Its Five Subprograms - An Overview
4.1 General Structure and Integration into a Multimodal Treatment Concept
4.2 Cognitive Differentiation
4.3 Social Perception
4.4 Verbal Communication
4.5 Social Skills
4.6 Interpersonal Problem Solving
5. Implementation of the Five IPT Subprograms
5.1 General Considerations
5.2 Cognitive Differentiation
5.3 Social Perception
5.4 Verbal Communication
5.5 Social Skills
5.6 Interpersonal Problem Solving
5.7 Group Processes Considerations
6 Assessment and Therapy Planning
6.1 Problem Analysis
6.2 Assessment Instruments
6.3 Self- and Expert Rating System
7 Description and Discussion of Empirical Results
C. Further Development of the IPT
8. Introduction
8.1 Cognitive Subprograms: The INT - Integrated Neurocognitive Therapy
8.2 Social Skills Subprograms: The WAF* - Vocational, Residential, and Recreational Skills
Appendix: Therapy Materials and Questionnaires (Worksheets)
Bibliography

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Michael Joel Schrift, DO, MA (Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine)
Description: The evidence does not support that the diagnostic category of schizophrenia represents a single valid disease. Notwithstanding, this heterogeneous entity does have common and overlapping clinical features such as deficits in cognition, social cognition, social skills, and interpersonal problem solving. Interpersonal Psychological Therapy is a new treatment manual and comprehensive guide for using this empirically-supported approach with patients manifesting these deficits. Written and edited by an international group of clinician-researchers, this is a welcome addition to the psychiatric literature.
Purpose: The purpose is to present to clinicians "the basic concepts of neurocognition, social cognition, and social competency" as well as a step-by-step method for applying "the therapy techniques and to select the appropriate therapy materials."
Audience: The intended audience includes clinicians treating patients with chronic psychotic disorders, and psychologists, psychiatrists, nurses, and social workers would benefit from reading this manual.
Features: The first part is an overview of the theoretical background and treatment approaches with chapters on the theoretical basis of cognitive behavioral treatments and a review of treatment approaches and the empirical results. The second part focuses on the therapy itself, including the conditions for carrying out the therapy program, a description of the therapy program, program implementation, assessment and therapy planning, and a description and discussion of the empirical data. The final section discusses further developments including cognitive subprograms and social skills subprograms. The appendix contains useful therapy materials, worksheets, and questions for implementing this therapy. The bibliography contains relevant and timely citations of the scientific literature. Sorely missing is an index, which would have made this manual easier to use.
Assessment: This is a useful new manual for the treatment of cognition and social skills deficits in patients with chronic psychosis. Clinicians who treat patients with schizophrenia would benefit from knowing and implementing this therapy with their patients.

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