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09madisonrousseau09 · **on:** Jul 30, 2018

Taken together, a variety of outcome studies have supported which of the following conclusions about the effectiveness of IPT?

a. IPT tends to be more effective for the treatment of depression in adults than psychodynamic therapies, but much less effective than cognitive-behavioral therapies.
b. IPT is more effective than other therapies for the treatment of every clinical problem that has been studied to date.
c. IPT is effective in treating clinical depression in adolescents and adults, but has been found to have negative effects when applied to the elderly.
d. IPT uniformly outperforms waitlist and control therapy groups for the treatment of clinical depression across the lifespan, but more mixed findings have been reported when applied to those with eating and substance abuse disorders.

Question 2

Research on the efficacy of Interpersonal Therapy (IPT) in treating clinical depression suggests all of the following EXCEPT that it:

a. has been thoroughly evaluated.
b. is comparable to short-term psychodynamic therapy.
c. outperforms no treatment and placebo treatment.
d. shows superior performance in the acute and maintenance stages of treatment.