Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Krupnick et al. Study.
 The first controlled IPT study, conducted by Janice  
Krupnick and colleagues (2008), treated 48 chronically and severely 
traumatized women, mostly minorities and mostly low- income, recruited 
from public gynecology and family health clinics in the Washington, D.C., 
area. These women were seeking treatment for other medical conditions, 
not for PTSD or other psychiatric diagnoses. IPT was conducted in a group 
format, capitalizing on the potential for patients to support one another, 
to realize that they were not alone in having been assaulted or abused. The 
 
 
 

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Table 1. 1.
  Studies of IPT for Chronic PTSD