NEW YORK , July 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Group Psychotherapy Association announced research demonstrating that group therapy is an effective mental health treatment that can respond to the mental health crisis in the US by increasing access to services while containing costs for patients, providers and third party payers. According to the White House ( FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Highlights Strategy to Address the National Mental Health Crisis | The White House ), the USA is currently in the midst of an unprecedented mental health crisis ( The State of Mental Health in America | Mental Health America (mhanational.org) ; Mental Health in America: A Growing Crisis (psychiatrictimes.
com) , with a drastic increase in demand for services while there is a workforce shortage in terms of availability of therapists to meet that demand. Mental health networks are also described as "ghost networks" by legislators, with up to 80% of therapists on provider networks unavailable due to full wait lists or no longer being in practice ( Congress urged to tackle 'ghost networks' amid mental health crisis | The Hill .) An analysis published in the leading American Psychological Association journal, American Psychologist shows that if 10% of the unmet need for psychotherapy in the US was met with group therapy and not individual therapy: 3.
3 million more people would be served, providing significantly improved access to mental health treatment. The need to add new therapi.