There are 6 distinct groups who benefit from Psycho-Education:
Group 1: Student is currently seeing a therapist, and needs additional scholastic assistance from someone who can communicate with therapist, and coordinate all efforts for the best mental health and scholastic outcomes.
Group 2: Student is currently taking psychotropic medication, receiving prescriptions from their primary care physician (PCP) or psychiatrist, & parents/student believes it is important to add regular (i.e. weekly) Psycho-Education, in order to for the mental health and scholastic benefits.
Group 3: Student is currently seeing a therapist, but the relationship isn’t deemed good enough to continue, and parents/student want to seek out a new therapist who is also experienced in meeting scholastic demands.
Group 4: Student is currently being tutored, but parents/student believe that the student should be seeing a therapist to replace the tutor, so that both mental health and scholastic needs can be directly addressed.
Group 5: Student is currently receiving no added support, but is showing signs of mental stress, anxiety or depression, etc. as a result of a recent negative event (divorce, death in family, poor grades), or simply due to the added rigors of balancing school and life, and parents/student believes that Psycho-Education would be beneficial to the overall plan for success.
Group 6: Student currently receiving no added support, and the parents want the student to excel in school, while not forgoing other critical whole-person health concerns (feeling happy, social awareness and friends, diet, etc.). This option is for those who don’t want to “Get an A at all costs”, but rather to “Get an A while enjoying the process of becoming a lifetime learner”. There are healthy A’s and unhealthy A’s. This group wants to ensure that their son or daughter is getting healthy A’s.