Behavioral Health

Group Sessions

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Group sessions offer behavioral health providers a method to treat multiple patients with similar concerns at the same time. Typically, these sessions aim to assist patients with emotional challenges or offer patients strategies to cope with negative experiences and behaviors.

If your practice specializes in behavioral health and offers group sessions, you can access features in athenaOne to schedule and document group sessions.

	In athenaOne, group session support begins with scheduling. As a clinic administrator or manager, you’ll review feature prerequisites, set up appointment types, and create scheduling templates to support group sessions.
	Book group sessions. As a member of behavioral health staff who schedules sessions, add patients to group session appointments.
	Check patients in. As a member of behavioral health staff who admits patients, check patients in as they arrive to start a group session.
	Document sessions. As a behavioral health provider, enter notes from group sessions, which appear in the charts of each participating patient.

If you are a clinic administrator or manager:

• Review prerequisites and contact us to enable settings for group session documents and billing
• Create and maintain group appointment types
• Add or modify group session templates

If you schedule patient appointments:

• Book group session appointments

If you check patients in for appointments:

• Check patients in and start a group session

If you are a provider facilitating group sessions:

• Document group sessions
• Update session appointments for patients