Mental Health

Interpersonal Psychotherapy Effective Treatment for Postpartum Depression

Published in Women's Health Weekly, December 14th, 2000

Women can reduce postpartum depression by engaging in interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT), which assists with social adjustment while offering an alternative to antidepressant medications, according to an article in the November 2000 issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry.

Michael W. O'Hara, PhD, and colleagues from the University of Iowa, Iowa City, recruited 120 postpartum women who met the DSM-IV criteria for major depression to participate in a study evaluating the effectiveness of interpersonal psychotherapy for postpartum depression.

Among the 99 patients who completed the study, women who received interpersonal psychotherapy (12...

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