An Interpersonal Systems Approach to the Conceptualization and Treatment of Depression

Abstract

examine research findings that have underscored the importance of focusing on the social context of depression / because this research should provide much of the empirical rationale for the development and use of interpersonally-based therapies for depression, it is important to delineate explicity the deficits in social functioning that must be addressed in these interventions (from the chapter) discuss briefly the results of a number of investigations that have assessed the cognitive functioning of depressed persons then, based on this discussion, and on the results of the studies examined earlier, I will outline a conceptualization of depression that integrates both interpersonal and cognitive factors finally, drawing on both this conceptualization and tenets of systems theory and therapy, I will present selected principles and strategies that might profitably be utilized in an interpersonal systems approach to the treatment of depression (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2007 APA, all rights reserved)