Özet:

Interpersonal psychotherapy is a structured approach that focuses on symptoms by solving interpersonal problematic processes. The focus is on interpersonal relations problems in four areas, including sadness, interpersonal conflicts, role changes and social isolation. Today, as well as depression, it is also used in the treatment of disorders such as eating disorders, anxiety disorders, post-traumatic stress disorders, it is actually a process developed for depression patients who are treated by foot. In this approach, it is suggested that psychopathology is born and continued from interpersonal problems. KPT appears as a module in many studies that investigate the treatment procedures for depression. On the other hand, it is a psychotherapy supplement that we are not very familiar with the presence of psychotherapy centers or clinics. Parallelly, the same table for the effectiveness studies was not present while the activity studies were observed in greater weight. Studies conducted by a structured procedure provide important information about whether the KPT is effective on depression, but often remain "too rigorous" for the scope of application. In this collection work, the findings of effectiveness work were mainly included. In this way, it is intended to draw a framework on the role of KPT in clinical application. In the collection, studies that first only KPT was selected as a treatment procedure were translated, and in subsequent sections the studies were compared with different procedures, such as cognitive behavioral therapies and medical therapies, supported by many studies that were effective in the treatment of depression. When research findings are evaluated, it is noted that KPT is an effective method in the treatment of depression. On the other hand, the comparison studies of both medical and cognitive behavioral therapies indicate that KPT has no superiority over any other approach.

Özet:

Interpersonal psychotherapies (IPT) are structured approach that focuses on symptom management through solving interpersonal problematic processes. The focus is on four main interpersonal problems: mourning, interpersonal conflicts, role changes and social isolation. Although it is used in the treatment of disorders such as eating disorders, anxiety disorders and post-traumatic stress disorder nowadays, it is actually a procedure which was developed for the outpatients with depression. In this review, it is aimed to examine (IPT) which take part in studies as one of the most popular modules, while not commonly used in real clinical settings and psychotherapy centres. Also, efficacy studies were observed to be more weighted compared to the effectiveness studies.Although the efficacy studies provide valuable contributions about the efficacy of IPT on depression, the exact procedures may be hard to follow in clinical settings. Relying on the reasons explained above, in this review, it is aimed to provide information about effectiveness researches more. By doing so, it is hoped to draw a portrait of IPT on depression in real clinical settings. Firstly, the studies in which IPT was chosen as the single module of the treament  were presented. Then, comparative studies conducted with Cognitive Behavioral Therapies and Medical Therapies were discussed. Findings suggested it is noteworthy that IPT is an effective method in the treatment of depression. On the other hand, comparative studies conducted with both medical treatments and Cognitive Behavioral Therapies indicate that CPT has no superiority over any other approach.

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