An Integrated Approach to Short-Term Dynamic Interpersonal Psychotherapy

A Clinician's Guide

Joan Haliburn

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9781782205173
• eBook ISBN: 9780429910722
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: History & Theory in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

Short-term dynamic interpersonal psychotherapy is an integrated, trauma-informed, contemporary, dynamic way of working with a range of mental health difficulties. Flexible though structured, phase-oriented, focused and time-limited, it is informed by the Conversational Model, Attachment and Interpersonal Theories and Brief Psychodynamic Psychotherapies, which are briefly described. It provides clinicians with a way of working with patients whose difficulties do not warrant long term therapy, who prefer a talking therapy or who have failed cognitive/behaviour therapies. With the help of examples, it guides the process of assessment and therapy with trauma in mind: using Conversational Model techniques where empathy replaces confrontation; resistance is seen as a fear of re-traumatization; defence mechanisms are regarded as adaptive coping mechanisms which later become maladaptive; transference interventions replace interpretations, and self-reflective capacity is encouraged rather than just insight. Separation anxiety is addressed and anxiety-provoking techniques are avoided, given that anxiety is a large part of most presentations.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• ABOUT THE AUTHOR
• LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
• FOREWORD
• INTRODUCTION
• CHAPTER ONE What is short-term dynamic interpersonal psychotherapy?
• CHAPTER TWO Theory
• CHAPTER THREE Techniques, process, and structure
• CHAPTER FOUR Early phase—trauma-informed assessment and care
• CHAPTER FIVE Early phase—the therapeutic relationship and the psychodynamic formulation
• CHAPTER SIX Early phase—treatment planning and separation anxiety
• CHAPTER SEVEN The middle phase—coping styles and affective expression
• CHAPTER EIGHT The end phase—ending with the beginning in mind
• CHAPTER NINE Particular situations—in the emergency department and continuity of care
• CHAPTER TEN Short-term dynamic interpersonal psychotherapy in life-changing medical diagnosis: chronic physical and mental illness
• CHAPTER ELEVEN Short-term dynamic interpersonal psychotherapy in adolescents
• CHAPTER TWELVE Short-term parent–infant dynamic psychotherapy
• CHAPTER THIRTEEN Anxiety and somatic symptom presentation
• CHAPTER FOURTEEN Depression, personality, and grief—self, value, and narcissistic vulnerability
• CHAPTER FIFTEEN Supervision, training, ethics, and culture—adjunctive therapies and difficulties in short-term dynamic interpersonal psychotherapy
• APPENDIX I The adherence manual
• APPENDIX II Patient leaflet for short-term dynamic interpersonal psychotherapy
• REFERENCES
• INDEX