This APA-style paper is designed to demonstrate your ability to integrate knowledge of psychiatric mental healthcare with the focus on development, implementing, and evaluating a specific Group Therapy. Use the criteria in grading rubric as your sub level headings. Develop a proposal for a group therapy innovation, with a focus on a specific disease process(es) or population, and include details about the group proposal with billing and sustainability. Include the goals for the group, open or closed, time frames, patient population details for inclusion criteria and training/preparation for therapists involved.
Recommended Guide:
Group Therapy
1. Title of Group
2. Goals of the Group
3. Training/Preparation/Considerations of Group Leaders;
4. Timeframes for the Group;
5. Resources and Budget.
6. Billing/ Sustainability;
7. Evaluation of Group;
8. References
See Grading Rubric below
1.- Group Therapy Approaches: Describe various types of group therapies. Discuss the specific approach, goals, key concepts, guiding principles, and use in practice.
2.- Planning for Group: Describe nursing situation and diagnosis specific patient populations with a description of the group makeup, timeline, purpose, and treatment plan. Describe group leader role, tasks, and techniques.
(Please note this is an idea of the nursing situation, I would like for my group: In this is a close Group, members are grieving various types of losses. All members’ relatives had mental illnesses and died from natural causes, drug overdose, suicide, complication from drugs and alcohol. One member’s son died while restrained in a psychiatric hospital)
3.- Budget and Sustainability: Discuss required elements of documentation supported by billing codes for reimbursement. Include plan for sustainability using various funding sources and modalities.
4.- Evaluation: Discuss evidence using at least three peer reviewed studies to support the use of this type of group and treatment plan. In addition, include plan to evaluate patient as well as group outcomes.
5.- Grammar, Coherent presentation, Overall clarity and creativity of presentation while following APA format including references.
