I Am Hope Group Therapy Project

The project in brief:
 

This is a scoping review of existing group talking therapy offerings to support the mental health of young people living in Aotearoa.
 

Purpose:
 

The I Am Hope Foundation appreciate the profound potential impact of group talking therapy to support young people’s mental health and would like to understand existing groups being provided in New Zealand communities. This will inform future decision making about the Foundation potentially supporting group therapy in addition to individual therapy.

 

I Am Hope have partnered with MindMatters Clinic to complete a scoping review of group therapy programme offerings across New Zealand relevant to young people’s mental health. This review includes collating registrations of interest from group therapy providers. I Am Hope may contact these providers about future opportunities.

Registrations will close at 5pm on the 12th September.

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The review will be completed at the end of September 2024 and a white paper published before the end of the year summarising key findings and recommendations.

 

Data and Privacy:

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Details of registered interested providers, such as contact details, will be kept strictly private and confidential in accordance with our privacy policies. The white paper will only include aggregated information such as the number of providers across different regions of New Zealand and what areas of mental health current groups support. For more information, you can view our privacy statements here and here or email info@mindmatters.clinic.

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Inclusion and Exclusion criteria:
 

We value all group support delivered in our communities. The scope of this review had to be limited so, this time, we are only collating information on groups that meet the following criteria:

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• Delivered in New Zealand;

• A group, i.e., with more than 5 registered participants and at least 1 group facilitator;

• At least one facilitator is registered with at least one of the following professional membership bodies:

  • HCANZA Health Coaches Australia & NZ Association

  • ANZACATA The Australian, New Zealand and Asian Creative Arts Therapies Association

  • NZPB New Zealand Psychologist Board

  • NZAP NZ Association of Psychotherapists

  • PBANZ Psychotherapist Board of Aotearoa NZ

  • DAPAANZ The Addiction Practitioners Association of Aotearoa New Zealand

  • NZCCA NZ Christian Counsellors Association

  • NZACNZ Association of Counsellors

  • ACC Approved Rongoa Māori Provider

• Talking therapy is at least one of the primary modalities of group delivery, such as but not limited to; person-centred counselling, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, or Acceptance and Commitment Therapy;

• Psychological wellbeing is as at least one of the primary target outcomes, such as but not limited to depression, social anxiety, stress, panic attacks, borderline personality disorder, resilience;

• Youth are at least included amongst the intended participants;

• The group is not run as part of public health, social, correctional, or education services and/or is not fully government funded.

 

Exclusion criteria:

• Delivered outside of New Zealand or multi-nationally;

• Not a group, for example family, couples or individual therapy;

• No facilitators are registered with at least one of the above-listed professional membership bodies;

• Talking therapy is not one of the primary modalities, for example a group solely based on physical exercise;

• Psychological wellbeing is not a primary target outcome, for example a group solely based on improving financial wellbeing;

• Youth are not amongst the intended participants or potentially benefitting participants, for example a group focussed on older adults or infants;

• The group is run within a public health, social, education, or correctional service, for example an inpatient mental health residential treatment programme or a teacher mindfulness programme, or is fully government funded.

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Pātai / Questions?

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Feel free to email us at info@mindmatters.clinic