WK-7-ASSGN-1. Interpersonal and Supportive Psychotherapies

Interpersonal and Supportive Psychotherapies
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Interpersonal and Supportive Psychotherapies
Supportive psychotherapy refers to a treatment that ameliorates symptoms of depression and improves, restores, or maintains adaptive skills, self-esteem, and ego functions (Rothe, 2017). Interpersonal psychotherapy entails a time-limited, evidence-based, and focused approach that is used by individuals to treat mood disorders. The primary similarities between these two psychotherapies are that they eradicate depression. Moreover, they work well for different groups of patients, such as younger and older individuals. Interpersonal and supportive psychotherapies are effective in eliminating depression since patients are given a chance to discuss their issues.
Although interpersonal and supportive psychotherapies are used to eliminate depression, they accomplish this objective differently. First, the former approach supports a treatment model that complies with a structured and time-limited method, which takes from 12-16 weeks. On the contrary, supportive psychotherapy is unstructured and uses the combination of cognitive-behavioral, interpersonal, or psychodynamic approaches. Second, the interpersonal approach identifies and looks for ways to address problems affecting the patient’s interpersonal relationships. On the other hand, supportive psychotherapy deals with an individual’s health and adaptive patterns that cause mental disorders. Third, interpersonal psychotherapy controls mood states that might exacerbate depression while supportive psychotherapy explores a person’s...