Table 1.

Individual-Family Psychoeducational Psychotherapy (IF-PEP) Sessions

Session	Parent content	Child content
1	Childhood mood disorders and symptoms	Childhood mood disorders and symptoms
2	Medication classes and indications, monitoring effectiveness and adverse effects	Treatments, being an active member of the treatment team, and “Naming the Enemy” (differentiating personality from symptoms)
3	Mental health and school services	Healthy habits: Sleeping, eating, and exercising (choose 1 or 2)
4	Identifying and improving negative family cycles	Building a “Tool Kit” to manage symptoms
5	Problem-solving and basic coping skills	“Thinking, Feeling, Doing”: Understanding the connection among thoughts, feelings, and actions
6	Revisit school and mental health treatment (optional)	“Stop, Think, Plan, Do, Check”: Developing problem-solving skills
7	Meeting with school personnel (optional)	Healthy habits: Sleeping, eating, and exercising (choose 1 or 2)
8	Nonverbal and verbal communication skills	Nonverbal communication skills
9	Symptom management and family preservation skills	Verbal communication skills
10	Sibling session: Psychoeducation, support for sibling (optional)	Review and graduate
In the Bank	Up to four more sessions to review content, address comorbidities or crises

See Fristad et al. (2011b).