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divorce, birth of a child, job loss), effectively negotiate the differences.
unresolved bereavement, or feelings Identifying and managing shared and
of loneliness and isolation, are at risk different expectations will ensure less
for becoming depressed. IPT uses these conflict and an improvement in mood.
four areas to focus the therapy sessions
and to create achievable goals. The What do you most hope readers will
approach creates a very focused take away from your book Feeling
collaborative approach that ensures that Better?
individuals will feel
better faster. Our greatest hope is to
share IPT with as many
Talk to us about people as possible, since it
the role that has been the best kept
expectations play secret in psychology until
both in depression now. When people see how
and the healing valuable, practical IPT is and
process. how much “common sense”
is embedded in this mode, it
The word is our hope that they will
expectations and the realize that IPT strategies
role it plays is one of can do a lot to help them
the best parts about feel better again. We also
IPT. It starts from hope that bringing IPT to the
the premise that general public, through this
people and situations book, will encourage
are not good or bad, communities to see the
or black or white. It value of IPT as a first line
is based on the idea treatment approach for
that in a relationship, depression and that ever
expectations can differ or change over increasing numbers of clinicians will
the passage of time. For example, if I make it accessible for those who would
expect my husband to be talkative when benefit from the therapy.
we are in the car together, I am going to
be disappointed because that is not who Cindy Goodman Stulberg, DCS,
he is and he doesn’t expect himself to be CPsych, and Ronald J. Frey, PhD,
talkative either. It’s not that he’s good or CPsych, are the authors of Feeling
bad, or I am right and he is wrong, it is Better and directors of the Institute for
that we have different desires and Interpersonal Psychotherapy. Visit them
expectations. online at
www.interpersonalpsychotherapy.com.
In order to resolve an important conflict,
you need to identify what your Special Thanks to New World Library.
expectations of yourself and others are
and you need to understand what their
expectations of themselves and of you
are. You then need to learn how to
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