Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Depressed Adolescents: a One-Year Naturalistic Follow-Up Study

This study is a 1-year follow-up of 14 depressed adolescents, who were treated for 3 months with interpersonal psychotherapy, adapted for depressed adolescents (IPT-A). Ten adolescents participated in the follow-up evaluation – only one of them met criteria for an affective disorder. The majority of subjects reported few depressive symptoms & had maintained their improvements in social functioning since completion of treatment.