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Interpersonal Psychotherapy And Delinquency

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Another study that researched the best practice for adolescents dealing with delinquency, Mufson, Moreau, Weissman, Wickramaratne, Martin, & Samoilov (2005), looks at the benefits of using Interpersonal psychotherapy to relieve depression in adolescents. The study was conducted using fourteen depressed adolescents and putting them in a twelve week study, using interpersonal psychotherapy to see if their depression would decrease over time. Clients were asked to go there interpersonal problems and assess what they would like to accomplish during the study. The goal of the researchers were decrease depression in the individuals who were completing the twelve week trial. Using IPT and having the therapist looks at their social life and their
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