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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.
List of contents
Foreword , Introduction , What is short-term dynamic interpersonal psychotherapy? , Theory , Techniques, process, and structure , Early phase—trauma-informed assessment and care , Early phase—the therapeutic relationship and the psychodynamic formulation , Early phase—treatment planning and separation anxiety , The middle phase—coping styles and affective expression , The end phase—ending with the beginning in mind , Particular situations—in the emergency department and continuity of care , Short-term dynamic interpersonal psychotherapy in life-changing medical diagnosis: chronic physical and mental illness , Short-term dynamic interpersonal psychotherapy in adolescents , Short-term parent—infant dynamic psychotherapy , Anxiety and somatic symptom presentation , Depression, personality, and grief—self, value, and narcissistic vulnerability , Supervision, training, ethics, and culture—adjunctive therapies and difficulties in short-term dynamic interpersonal psychotherapy , The adherence manual , Patient leaflet for short-term dynamic interpersonal psychotherapy
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Joan Haliburn
Summary
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.
