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Teaching Interpersonal Psychotherapy to Psychiatric Residents

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Time-limited therapies are increasingly important components of clinical practice. The author describes his experience in teaching interpersonal psychotherapy and brief psychotherapy generally to PGY-3 psychiatric residents in two residency programs. Although residents lack psychotherapeutic experience, they appear to compensate f or needed security in the therapeutic role with enthusiasm and vigor, and to adjust relatively easily to the demands of conducting an active, time-limited approach. Videotaping sessions and having appropriately trained supervisors are important factors for program success.

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  1. Cornell University Medical College, USA

    John C. Markowitz M.D. (associate professor of clinical psychiatry, lecturer in psychiatry)

  2. Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, USA

    John C. Markowitz M.D. (associate professor of clinical psychiatry, lecturer in psychiatry)

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Markowitz, J.C. Teaching Interpersonal Psychotherapy to Psychiatric Residents. Acad Psychiatry 19, 167–173 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03341428

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