Depression-Focused Psychotherapies: Conclusions
The depression-focused psychotherapies, as exemplified by IPT, several models of behavior therapy, and Beck’s CT, are practical and effective outpatient treatments of mild to moderately severe major depressive disorder. From…

Depression-Focused Psychotherapies in the Treatment of Severe Depression: Are They Contraindicated?

The finding of an apparent association between increased symptom severity and poorer response to CT…

Depression-Focused Psychotherapies: Treatment Efficacy
Randomized clinical trials have compared the depression-focused psychotherapies with both psychosocial and pharmacological control conditions. This literature, published before 1995, has been reviewed extensively, and the major published controlled studies…

Depression-Focused Psychotherapies: Interpersonal Psychotherapy

IPT evolved between the late 1960s and the early 1980s. The developers of IPT trace its origins to the work of Adolph Meyer (1957), which emphasizes the significance of psychosocial and…

Depression-Focused Psychotherapies: Behavior Therapy
Behavioral treatments of depression are derived from operant conditioning, social learning theory, and, to a lesser extent, classical conditioning to various psychopathological states. These approaches share a common focus on…

Depression-Focused Psychotherapies: Shared Features of Depression-Focused Psychotherapies
The depression-focused psychotherapies are nontraditional in that they do not posit that depression is the result of core unconscious or neurotic conflicts; nor do…

Depression-Focused Psychotherapies: Historical Overview
The depression-focused psychotherapies grew out of a series of developments in the mental health field between the late 1950s and early 1980s. First, there was the slowly growing…