The Group Foundation for Advancing Mental Health is committed to changing lives through therapeutic group work. It focuses on the advancement of the most effective and innovative approaches to group therapy education, training, research, and community outreach.
The grant program focuses on funding original critical research reviews that investigate various aspects of group psychotherapy. This includes studies on treatment outcomes for specific clinical issues like depression, cost-effectiveness of group therapy, process-outcome relationships, different group formats and approaches like psychoeducational groups for managing stress, individual differences impacting group treatment, and comparisons of group therapy to other treatment forms. Grants are awarded up to $5,000 based on the proposal's significance to the field, the experience of the investigative team, and the number of applications received. The funding is distributed in three phases over one year, with specific expectations for progress and final reporting.