Research Expertise: Training of psychological psychotherapists and child and adolescent psychotherapists
Project time: January 2008 to April 2009
Project coordination: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Strauss (Jena)
Collaborating professors:
- Sven Barnow (University of Heidelberg)
- Elmar Brähler (University Hospital Leipzig)
- Jörg M. Fegert (University Hospital Ulm)
- Steffen Fliegel ('Gesellschaft für Klinische Psychologie und Beratung' Münster)
- Harald J. Freyberger (University Hospital Greifswald)
- Lutz Goldbeck (University Hospital Ulm)
- Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber (Sigmund Freud Institute Frankfurt)
- Ulrike Willutzki (University of Bochum)
Research assistants:
- Bochum: Eckhardt Reichenau, Desiree Thormann
- Frankfurt: Judith Lebiger-Vogel
- Greifswald: Kathrin von Rad, Felicitas Michels-Lucht, Andrea Schulz
- Heidelberg: Ramona Dinu-Biringer
- Jena: Steffi Nodop (neé Kohl)
- Leipzig: Astrid Sonntag, Heide Glaesmer
- Münster: Melissa Wee
- Ulm: Isabelle Schurr, Nina Spröber
A national research network (head: Prof. Strauss) has been given the task of planning and conducting a research expertise on psychotherapy training in Germany by the German ministry of health. The major aims were to evaluate the quality of training of psychotherapists and to make recommendations on possible restructurings. Furthermore, the quality and the contents of the training were to be compared on a European level.
In detail, the research expertise described the experiences of e.g. the training institutes, the trainers as well as the trainees with a special focus on the differences between the training for child and adolescent psychotherapists and psychological psychotherapists. The specific questions of the German Ministry of Health came from different groups of themes: training institutes, therapeutic orientations, duration of training, components of training (clinical practicum, theoretical training, practical training, supervision, personal therapy), state examinations, costs, admission requirements, psychotherapy training in Europe.
Based on the results for the themes, the research expertise was asked to give recommendations on several related themes: admission requirements (e.g. professions), therapeutic orientations of the future training, cost regulations, competence enlargement (prescribing authority etc.) and structures of training regarding localisation or number of psychotherapy professions.
The document of the research expertise was handed over to the German ministry of health may 7th in 2009.
Download research expertise (17 MB, language: German)
Download companion volume (16 MB, language: German)
The preliminary results were presented on an expert panel with representatives of German psychotherapy organisations in Berlin, on 28 January 2009. For more information see here.
To extent the results and research questions to the European level, Prof. Strauss and Steffi Nodop have initiated the project idea "EuroPTrain": EuroPTrain, European Research Network of Psychotherapy Training
Contact:
Dipl.-Psych. Steffi Nodop (neé Kohl)
Telefon: +49 3641 935353
