Agenda

The program is structured around 3 live webinars that will dive into the details of each IPT phase in a closed classroom setting. E-modules introduce the content in detail and are to be completed before each live webinar.

Skills Teaching Live Webinar 1:
An introduction to IPT and beginning phase clinical guidelines

April 15, 2024. 5:00pm – 6:00pm EST

This live closed classroom webinar reviews the background of Interpersonal Psychotherapy, compares it to other therapy models, and focuses on the IPT beginning phase clinical guidelines with practicing of skills including the interpersonal inventory and case formulation.

Learners are to complete the following case based and interactive e-modules in advance of webinar 1:

  • E-module
    The IPT Model & Therapeutic Foundations

    An introduction to IPT including an overview of evidence, indications, relational foundations, theories, appreciating individual patient differences with cultural sensitivity.

  • E-module
    The IPT Beginning Phase

    Learn to use the Brief IPT Checklist/Practice Reminder, provide psychoeducation, conduct an interpersonal inventory, and formulate cases.

Skills Teaching Live Webinar 2:
Helping patients through use of IPT middle-phase clinical guidelines

May 9, 2024. 5:00pm – 6:00pm EST

This live closed classroom webinar prepares learner/participants to understand and help patients through use of the IPT middle-phase clinical guidelines for grief, role transitions, role disputes and interpersonal sensitivity or loneliness. There will be opportunity for practicing and discussion of the IPT middle-phase tasks, including ways to help patients to connect with social supports, and using communication analysis to improve understanding and interpersonal effectiveness in relationships.

Learners are to complete the following case based and interactive e-modules in advance of webinar 2:

  • E-module
    The IPT Middle Phase

    Understand the IPT clinical guidelines for the IPT middle phase and therapeutic strategies used in all sessions including role playing, use of communication analysis, ways to help patients to connect with social supports, and problem solving with video-taped, captioned demonstrations and interactive learning activities.

  • E-module
    IPT Middle Phase Tasks – Grief, Role transitions, Role disputes, Interpersonal sensitivity

    These segments of the online course provide clinical guidelines with case studies to understand and help patients explore and cope with the impacts of grief, complex grief, role transitions, role disputes, and interpersonal sensitivities or loneliness with video-taped, captioned demonstrations and interactive learning activities.

Skills Teaching Live Webinar 3:
Termination phase tasks and commonly encountered clinical challenges

May 30, 2024. 4:00pm – 5:00pm EST

This final closed classroom skills-teaching webinar focuses on the termination phase tasks and commonly encountered clinical challenges.

All learners/participants will complete a 30-minute knowledge test at the end of the program, and will be provided with their scores.

Learners are to complete the following case based and interactive e-module in advance of webinar 3:

  • E-module
    The IPT Ending Phase

    This online case-based, interactive lesson reviews the criteria and therapeutic guidelines for concluding a course of IPT to process feelings and reactions to termination, and consolidate therapeutic gains for a “good goodbye.”