Interpersonal Psychotherapy Training (IPT) Moving from Adults to Adolescent

About this training

This two-day training is jointly delivered by Roslyn Law and an Anna Freud Young Champion, a young person with lived and professional experience of mental health care for young people.

This training will provide accredited IPT practitioners with an introduction to working with adolescents with depression and to the ways in which IPT has been adapted in Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Depressed Adolescents (IPT-A) and when delivered in a family context. IPT UK has stipulated that this type of CPD training is required for all IPT practitioners who work with clients aged 16+ and is strongly recommended for IPT-trained therapists working with clients from 18-24 years of age.

The training will be delivered as a blended learning experience, including pre-recorded teaching, online discussion of clinical scenarios and small group exercises. In addition to providing practical skills training, the training will aim to increase participants’ knowledge of adolescent development, and the evidence base for IPT-A and IPT delivered in a family context.

This training aims to:

• provide an overview of how IPT has been adapted in IPT-A to enable accredited IPT practitioners to work with adolescents with depression

• introduce the challenges and opportunities when working with adolescents with depression

• review the evidence for and modifications in practice when IPT is delivered with the family in mind.

Who is this training for?

This training is suitable for accredited IPT practitioners who would like to learn about using IPT-A with an adolescent population or in a family context, such as working with depressed parents of depressed adolescents.

This training is also suitable for IPT therapists who intend to work directly with adolescents with depression or who work with parents or care providers and want to understand more about how adolescents with depression experience their own mental health difficulties and the impact on the family.