Single-session group psychological treatment for persons with adjustment disorders: Program and preliminary assessment

Abstract

The high demand for mental health care in the Public Health System of Andalusia requires to devise and imple­ment care proposals proportional to the severity of the disorders, while being agile and of quality. This paper presents a single-session group psychological treatment program to assist people with adjustment disorders, as well as the results of its preliminary evaluation. The objectives of the program are to help the psychological and emotional recovery of the participants and to prevent their relapse.
It has been applied to 40 people, women and men, aged between 22 and 73 years, derived by their family doctors. The preliminary evaluation was carried out through a questionnaire of assessment and satisfaction with de treatment of own elaboration, indicators of care and the perception of professionals who indicated the derivation. In spite of the small number of people who are referred back within 12 months after the treatment, the discreetly positive scores obtained in the questionnaire and the favorable perception of the doctors who referred patients, the methodological limitations of this study oblige to continue assessing the opportunity and utility of the same in new controlled studies.