Treating Common Mental Disorders in Women in Mozambique by Addressing Intimate Partner Violence in Couples

"Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Couples (IPT-C) consists of 8 weekly conjoint sessions. The clinical goals are to promote resolution of the role dispute via renegotiation of role relations between the marriage partners and improve common mental disorders in the woman. Like Interpersonal Psychotherapy, IPT-C has an initiation phase (Session 1-2), middle phase (Sessions 3-6), and termination phase (Sessions 7-8)."

Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) is an evidence-based treatment to reduce depression and other common mental disorders. It focuses on helping patients resolve interpersonal problems of disagreements, loneliness, life changes, and grief, and/or change their orientation to the problem.