Rank in the order 1-4 of which you are interested in learning for

Spring quarter. 1 being the most interested, 4 being the least.

Interpersonal Therapy: IPT is a time-limited, symptom-focused therapy that was originally

created to treat unipolar, nonpsychotic depression in adults. IPT therapist focuses on the
recovery from the current depressive episode by (1) clarifying the relationship between the
onset of patient’s current depressive symptoms and interpersonal problems and (2) building
interpersonal skills to resolve or manage more effectively these interpersonal problems.

Family Therapy: Family therapy is both a theory and a treatment method. It offers a way to
view clinical problems within the context of the family’s transactional patterns based on
systems theory. Family therapy also represents a form of intervention in which members of a
family are assisted in identifying and changing problematic, maladaptive, repetitive
relationship patterns, as well as self-defeating or self-limiting belief systems.

Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy (REBT): A theory of personality and a holistic

method of psychotherapy developed in the 1950s by clinical psychologist Albert Ellis, holds
that when a highly charged emotional consequence (C) follows a significant activating event
(A), event A may seem to but does not actually cause C. Instead, emotional consequences are
largely created by B—the individual’s belief system. REBT considers the importance of both
mind and body or of thinking, feeling, wanting (contents of the mind, according to
psychology) and of behavior (the operations of the body).

Existential Therapy: An existential approach to therapy involves someone, a therapist, who is

willing to walk unflinchingly with patients through life’s deepest and most vexing problems.
Existential psychotherapy is an attitude toward human suffering and has no manual. It asks
deep questions about the nature of the human being and the nature of anxiety, despair, grief,
loneliness, isolation, and anomie. It also deals centrally with the questions of meaning,
creativity, and love.