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Interpersonal psychotherapy for depressed adolescents is an innovative
, brief psychotherapy designed to meet the developmental tasks of adol
escence and to address the clinical aspects of adolescent depression a
nd treatment barriers. It was the first psychotherapy for this populat
ion specified in a treatment manual and is one of the few psychotherap
ies undergoing rigorous scientific testing to assess efficacy.