Topics
The 8th Biennial isIPT Congress welcomes submissions on a wide range of topics related to IPT. Below is a list of topics that would be appropriate for symposia, mini-workshops, oral presentations, and posters. This list is is intended to inspire and encourage submissions on a variety of topics but is by no means an exhaustive catalogue of options. The Scientific Committee welcomes presentations focused on bold ideas and new research.
- Biologic basis of IPT: Mechanisms and moderators
- Clinical applications of IPT
- Couples therapy and IPT
- Culture and IPT
- Family therapy and IPT
- Fighting stigma
- Future of psychotherapy
- Gender issues and IPT
- Global mental health and IPT
- Group therapy and IPT
- Historical perspectives on IPT
- Integrating IPT with other therapeutic modalities
- IPT across the lifespan
- IPT and other psychotherapies (CBT, Psychodynamic, MI): Similarities, differences and synergies
- IPT and patient advocacy
- IPT educational research
- IPT implementation & dissemination
- IPT in anxiety disorders
- IPT in children and adolescents
- IPT in somatic and psychosomatic disorders
- IPT in the elderly
- IPT in the workplace
- IPT outcomes research
- IPT process research
- IPT training processes, challenges, and tools
- New media and technology in IPT
- Prevention of behavioral disorders using IPT
- Psychotherapy research methodology
- Role of IPT in eating disorders
- Role of IPT in management of perinatal psychiatric disorders
- Suicidality and IPT
- Trauma/ PTSD and IPT