Time Limit: IPC was originally conceptualized to be delivered as 12-16 weekly, 45–50-minute, individual sessions. IPC has been tested in an even shorter, 8-session, brief format. In clinical practice, the therapist can adjust the number of sessions to meet the needs of the patient and health care setting, but it is important to define from the outset a discrete time frame for the therapy.
Interpersonal Inventory: The inventory is an extended psychosocial assessment. The coach/counselor carefully reviews the important people in the patient’s life and the quality of those relationships.
The coach/counselor seeks to understand the sources of social support, nature of confiding relationships, romantic attachments, interpersonal communication style, and relationship difficulties that may be a cause or consequence of…
Time Limit: IPC was originally conceptualized to be delivered as 12-16 weekly, 45–50-minute, individual sessions. IPC has been tested in an even shorter, 8-session, brief format. In clinical practice, the therapist can adjust the number of sessions to meet the needs of the patient and health care setting, but it is important to define from the outset a discrete time frame for the therapy.
Interpersonal Inventory: The inventory is an extended psychosocial assessment. The coach/counselor carefully reviews the important people in the patient’s life and the quality of those relationships.
The coach/counselor seeks to understand the sources of social support, nature of confiding relationships, romantic attachments, interpersonal communication style, and relationship difficulties that may be a cause or consequence of…