Medical psychotherapist
Medical psychotherapist is a collective term for licensed physicians who can prove a psychotherapeutic qualification. Medical psychotherapy is a planned interactive process after detailed diagnostics with defined objectives and a targeted selection of methods and techniques or a procedure. Therapy planning and implementation is embedded in a medical context of experience of mild, but also serious illnesses and knowledge of bio-psychosocial and psychosomatic relationships.
Specialists
As part of their at least 5-year specialist training, licensed doctors acquire their psychotherapeutic qualifications from the following specialist groups:
- Specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy
- Specialist in psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy
- Specialist in child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy
Other specialist groups can only acquire the additional designation "subject-related psychotherapy" after completing additional training in psychotherapy. Evidence of further training of 500 to 600 hours must be provided. The additional training course " Psychoanalysis " is open to all specialists after completing the necessary training.
The additional terms “psychotherapy”, “psychoanalysis” and “subject-related psychotherapy” may be used alongside the respective specialist designation. Doctors are allowed to continue titles that were acquired under the earlier law.
Differences to psychologists and psychotherapists
Among laypeople, the professional titles psychiatrist , psychologist and psychotherapist are often incorrectly used synonymously . Indeed, psychotherapists and psychologists are very different from the specialists mentioned above:
- Psychologists deal scientifically with psychology . You can call yourself a graduate psychologist if you have completed a degree in psychology with a diploma anda psychologist with anM.sc. You can then complete further training to become a psychological psychotherapist, but also work in numerous other professional fields, e.g. B. in business, in human resources , in research, as a traffic psychologist , in advice centers, etc.
- Psychotherapists are doctors or psychologists who are licensed to practice medicine (approbation) and who practice psychotherapy within the meaning of the Psychotherapists Act . This includes the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders with disease value , for which psychotherapy is indicated, using scientifically recognized methods of psychotherapy. The job titles are i. d. Usually "specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy" or "medical psychotherapist" or "psychological psychotherapist" depending on the basic training.
Distribution of occupational groups
2013 working as psychotherapists in Germany:
| Technical name | number |
|---|---|
| Psychological psychotherapists | 13,368 |
| Psychological child and adolescent psychotherapists | 3.110 |
| Specialists in psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy | 2,557 |
| Specialists in neurology | 2,461 |
| Medical psychotherapists | 2,371 |
| Specialists in psychiatry and psychotherapy | 1,964 |
| Specialists in neurology | 1,365 |
| Specialists in child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy | 856 |
Health services research
The subject of a study in 2011 on health services research and the specific role of medical psychotherapy is the presentation of the current situation of medical-psychotherapeutic care with regard to the medical disciplines involved and the elaboration of a specific profile of psychotherapy by doctors. It comes to the conclusion that the following conclusions must be drawn with regard to necessary measures:
- The future profiling of psychotherapy by doctors or medical psychotherapy must be more clearly defined.
- More detailed investigations are needed on quantitative and, above all, qualitative features of psychotherapeutic activity, which can above all provide a more precise picture of the specialist medical consultation services.
- The individual professional groups involved in psychotherapeutic care are challenged to work out their self-image as medical psychotherapists and their contribution to psychotherapeutic care more precisely.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Specific role of medical psychotherapy (PDF; 357 kB)
- ↑ Baden-Württemberg Medical Association, subject-specific additional training (PDF; 10 kB)
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: sample training regulations (PDF 741 KB)
- ↑ Career opportunity check psychologist. Education and Knowledge, Nuremberg 1999, ISBN 3-8214-8244-3 .
- ↑ psychotherapists Law of the Federal Republic of Germany online Retrieved on March 31, 2014
- ↑ Study on health services research (PDF; 357 kB)