Estimating the Efficiency of Therapy Groups in a College Counseling Center

ABSTRACT

College counseling centers are facing rapidly increasing demands for services and are tasked to find efficient ways of providing adequate services while managing limited space. The use of therapy groups has been proposed as a method of managing demand. This brief report examines the clinical time savings of a traditional group therapy program in a college counseling center. The savings were mixed from semester to semester, ranging from 5 individual therapy spots lost to 10 individual therapy spots gained depending on the estimation. Considerations are offered for the use of therapy groups to manage clinical demand based on this report.

KEYWORDS:

• Clinical efficiency
• clinical system
• college counseling
• demand for services
• group therapy

Acknowledgment

I would like to thank Dr. Julie Perone for her assistance with editing this manuscript.