StrongMinds Featured in Book Providing Global Overview of Interpersonal Therapy

StrongMinds CEO Sean Mayberry discusses the implementation of Interpersonal Group Therapy (IPT-G) in Uganda and Zambia in the new book, Interpersonal Psychotherapy: A Global Reach, edited by Myrna Weissman and Jennifer Mootz, which is now available for free as a PDF download by choosing “open access” via Oxford University Press and for purchase in ebook and print formats.

This collection of chapters from renowned interpersonal psychotherapy experts, researchers, and implementers discusses the origins, evidence, and implementation of the treatment methodology. Interpersonal psychotherapy, an approach to treating mental health disturbances such as depression, borderline personality disorder, and PTSD by addressing key relationship-based triggers, including isolation, grief, conflict, and life transition has been implemented to varying degrees across the entire world.

Interpersonal Psychotherapy describes how the treatment method has changed over time, how its implementers have adapted it for different cultural settings, how practitioners are trained, its challenges, and its promise for the future. 

In addition to detailing StrongMinds’ work in Africa, Mayberry discusses the consequences of untreated depression and the mental health treatment gap, explaining how its effects transcend individual health. People must have access to mental health care in order for the world to reach any of the Sustainable Development Goals. Depression, he argues, “is not just a health problem, it is a development problem.”