(W) indicates requirement for Working Knowledge
(P) indicates requirement for Proficiency
MEDICAL EXPERT
Knowledge
With regards to Interpersonal Psychotherapy, residents should be able to:
1.
Describe the phase-, and focus-specific clinical guidelines of IPT (W).
2.
Summarize how IPT differs from other kinds of psychotherapy (W).
3.
Identify indications, and relative contraindications for IPT, listing what kinds of patients can most likely benefit from IPT (W).
4.
Demonstrate use of attachment and interpersonal theories as applied to clinical case material (P).
Skills
During the course of an IPT treatment, residents should be able to:
1.
Explain the rationale for IPT and psychoeducation about depression to a patient (W)
2.
Establish and maintain a positive therapeutic alliance, gaining agreement on goals and clinically interacting with empathy, respect and responsiveness (W).
3.
Demonstrate the ability to formulate an understanding of each patient as a unique individual within his or her family, socio-cultural and community structure in the context of current stressors and experience of illness and to choose a focus of treatment (W).
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4.
Demonstrate an appreciation for the patient’s developmental, past history while focusing on present life stressors and relationships with the goals of remitting symptoms, resolving current relational problems and improving functioning and relationships (W).
5.
Track symptoms and adjust treatment if patient is not improving (W).
6.
Demonstrate an ability to use at least one of the four, focus-specific IPT techniques (i.e. disputes, transitions, bereavement, deficits) (W)
7.
Demonstrate an ability to perform the tasks of termination in IPT (P)
COMMUNICATOR
1.
Document through charting that is timely, accurate and summative of the themes and observations that emerge in each session, and that complies with University of Toronto Department of Psychiatry and CPSO psychotherapy charting guidelines (W).
2.
Utilize links between symptoms and interactions or problems aligned with the interpersonal focus of treatment in therapeutic communications with the patient (W).
3.
Reflect and discuss interpersonal aspects of a patient’s treatment experience, including impasses, during supervision (W).
4.
Demonstrate an ability to use communication analyses or role plays in sessions to identify and work on interpersonal problems – exploring and expanding a patient’s perspective and understanding of choices related to communication/behaviours (P).
5.
Demonstrate rapport, responsiveness to and therapeutic alliances patients (W)
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COLLABORATOR
1. Where applicable to patient care, actively participate within an interprofessional healthcare team: describe their role, its purpose for the benefit of the patient in providing IPT to the other professionals on the team; work collaboratively in the assessment, plan and provision of integrated care; develop a shared understanding of prioritized issues and feasible plans with patients, families and colleagues that can be explicitly integrated into IPT treatment.
MANAGER
1.
Manage time/schedule with attention to priorities to balance: patient care that includes psychotherapy; educational responsibilities that include clinical supervision; and personal life (W).
2.
Use supervision (and if desired, personal therapy), to manage and understand counter- transference that may be evoked in the context of clinical interactions and patient care (W).
3.
Recognize and advocates for fair and timely access of psychotherapy within differing psychiatric clinical settings (P).
4.
Identifies and addresses practical issues regarding norm and frame of treatment (W).
HEALTH ADVOCATE
1.
Where appropriate, help a patient to engage with community resources, work/school/family, or others in their circle of care and to connect with social supports in a time of need (W)
2.
Foster a patient’s self-efficacy, and their recruiting of, or utilizing of supports to aid recovery (W).
3.
Demonstrate an appreciation of the role of evidence-supported psychotherapy treatments in mental healthcare (W) and discuss this clearly to colleagues, patients and their family members (P).
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SCHOLAR
1.
As an active learner, read articles and/or books on IPT and other psychotherapy approaches or theories that are relevant to their supervised clinical casework in IPT (W).
2.
Demonstrate an appreciation of the empirical underpinning of IPT (W), and able to apply and integrate this knowledge into clinical work (P)
3.
Evaluate, with rigour, both the process and outcome of treatment, iteratively adjusting treatment and formulation to take into account individual differences that become apparent over time (P)
PROFESSIONAL
1.
Demonstrate a commitment to active learning, making constructive use of supervision and feedback (W).
2.
Maintain professional standards of confidentiality and ethical behaviour with patients, family members and colleagues (W).
3.
Demonstrate consistency and reliability, with conscientiousness across all aspects of IPT practice (including respectful, professionallyboundaried engagement of patients in treatment, managing disruptions in care, in supervision and in discharge) (W)
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