Demonstration of Interpersonal Psychotherapy Techniques: Working with Individuals with Personality Disorders
In Weeks 5 and 6, you created videos that demonstrate your understanding of Interpersonal Psychotherapy techniques, skills, and interventions used in mock “real play” therapy sessions. For this Assignment, you will create another video demonstration; however, you will use a different case study example, one that depicts an individual who potentially has a personality disorder. It will be important for you to further develop your techniques and skills when working with personality or mood disorders, therefore this video should depict your awareness of how you might address the client’s concerns, specifically to address a potential personality or mood disorder, from an Interpersonal Psychotherapy approach.
This demonstration will be composed of a video you create to demonstrate the techniques you have observed, from an Interpersonal Psychotherapy approach, for Case Study Example #3.
To prepare for this Assignment:
- Review Case Study Example #3, found in this week’s Learning Resources, and consider the specific personality disorder indicated for this client from the information provided.
- Review the Case Conceptualization template, and use this template to help you conceptualize this new client using an Interpersonal Psychotherapy approach to treatment.
- Use techniques not utilized in the Week 5 or 6 demonstration videos. You may select from negotiating client resistance, providing a corrective emotional experience, honoring transference/countertransference, termination, corrective emotional experience, recapitulating a client’s conflicts, etc.
- Choose a friend or acquaintance who is not a member of your family to help you demonstrate a fictitious mock “real play” therapy session. Please review the case study information, as your friend or acquaintance will take the persona of the client you want them to demonstrate.
- Choose a quiet location away from any noise and distractions.
- Conduct and record your fictitious therapy session (approximately 5-10 minutes).
For this Assignment:
Create a fictitious mock therapy session on video where you include two Interpersonal Psychotherapy skills and/or techniques with your fictitious client (Note: Use different techniques not utilized in Weeks 5 and 6) such as negotiating client resistance, providing a corrective emotional experience, honoring transference/countertransference, termination, corrective emotional experience, recapitulating a client’s conflicts, etc. Make sure you demonstrate the use of these techniques in therapy from an interpersonal psychotherapy approach.
Submit and upload your Case Conceptualization of the client and your Interpersonal Therapy Techniques for Specific Disorders: A Video Demonstration Assignment by Day 7.
