title: Brief heterogeneous inpatient psychotherapy groups: a process-oriented psychoeducational (POP) model.
abstract: In the United States, there is currently an increase in admissions to psychiatric hospitals, diagnostic heterogeneity, briefer stays, and a lack of inpatient research. Most traditional group therapy models are constructed for longer-term homogeneous patients. Diagnostically homogeneous groups even outperform heterogeneous groups. However, changes in health care have created a clinical dilemma in psychiatric hospitals where groups have become characterized by brief duration, rapid turnover, and diagnostic heterogeneity. A literature review offered little in the way of treatment recommendations, let alone a model or empirical basis, for facilitating these types of groups. Common factors from group therapy studies were extracted. Based on an integration of these studies, a process-oriented psychoeducational (POP) treatment model is recommended. This model is theoretically constructed and outlined for future study.
authors.forename: Wesley G
authors.initials: WG
authors.lastname: Cook
authors.forename: Adam
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Arechiga
authors.forename: Leslie Ann V
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Dobson
authors.forename: Kenny
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Boyd
mesh_terms: D006126:Group Processes; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D011614:Psychotherapy, Brief / Q000379:methods*; D011615:Psychotherapy, Group / Q000379:methods*