Mindfulness Psychoeducational Group

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Mindfulness Psychoeducational Group
Introduction
This is a mindfulness psychoeducational group that will assist in providing the fundamental skills in group formation, development, and process among patients with congestive heart failure.
Section One
The group target population is for any individual between the ages 18-55 who have been diagnosed with congestive heart failure (CHF) and will benefit from mindfulness stress reduction therapy. According to research mindfulness stress reduction therapy demonstrates to be effective and empowering among patients with heart disease (Kabat-Zinn, 2007).
The mindfulness psychoeducational group is to educate patients about congestive heart failure and help patients understand the disease. It is important that patients understand and learn how to manage the disease because it gives the patient the ability to learn how to cope with it (Moser, 2002). Moreover, the purpose of the group is to help patients develop the proper skills to be able to cope with congestive heart failure.
The group is a heterogeneous group that focuses on patients who are in need of managing and coping with congestive heart failure. According to SAMHSA (1999), heterogeneous groups “offer greater complexity and more opportunities for a wide range of relationships, which can be extremely helpful to many patients”.
It is a closed ended group serving between 8 to12 members who meet in weekly sessions for one hour over the course of ten weeks. A closed ended group is beneficial for the group because it is an educational group that goes step by step. It is important for every patient to go

through the whole curriculum to meet the purpose of the group and be suitable to the patients.
There are particular manners of out...

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...linical Pharmacology, 14(4), 315-325. Retrieved from www.pubmed.gov SAMHSA (2009). The benefits of heterogeneous groups. Retrieved from www.samhsa.gov
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M., W., Rosenberg, B., Bosworth, B, H., Adams, K., Cuffe, M.S. (2009).
The support, education, and research in chronic heart failure study (SEARCH): A mindfulness-based psychoeducational intervention improves depression and clinical symptoms in patients with chronic heart failure. American Heat Journal, 157(1), 84-90.
Retrieved from www.medscape.com
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