German Psychotherapist Association
| German Psychotherapists Association (DPtV) |
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| purpose | Professional association of psychological psychotherapists and children and Adolescent psychotherapists eV |
| Chair: | Gebhard Hentschel |
| Executive Director: | Carsten Frege |
| Establishment date: | 2006 |
| Number of members: | 14,000 |
| Seat : | Berlin , Germany |
| Website: | www.dptv.de |
The German Psychotherapists Association (DPtV) is a professional interest group for psychological psychotherapists (PP) and child and adolescent psychotherapists (KJP) in Germany.
history
The association was founded in 2006 and is based on a merger of the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Therapists, founded in 1984, and the German Association of Psychotherapists, founded in 1992 .
structure
The society is registered as an association in the association register. It is characterized by a federal structure with regional groups. The association is also registered in the lobby list of the President of the German Bundestag.
Members
With 14,000 members, the DPtV is the largest professional association for psychological psychotherapists and child and adolescent psychotherapists in Germany.
The services of the DPtV can be used by the following persons:
- Resident, employed or civil servant psychological psychotherapists and child and adolescent psychotherapists
- Psychological psychotherapists in training and child and adolescent psychotherapists (associated members)
- Students of psychology and education with the aim of training as psychological psychotherapist or child and adolescent psychotherapist (associated members)
- natural and legal persons who stand up for the interests of psychological psychotherapists and child and adolescent psychotherapists (supporting members)
organs
Assembly of delegates
Each national group sends elected delegates to the delegates' assembly that meets at least twice a year. Here the guidelines of the association work of the DPtV are discussed and decided.
Federal Executive
The federal executive board is elected by the delegates' assembly for a term of office of three years. He represents the interests of the members of the DPtV in public and in politics, in particular vis-à-vis the sponsors and self-governing bodies under social law, the chambers of psychotherapists and professional bodies. The federal chairman is the qualified psychologist and psychotherapist Gebhard Hentschel, deputies are the qualified psychologists Barbara Lubisch, Anke Pielsticker, Michael Ruh, Sabine Schäfer and Enno Maaß (election period 2019-2022).
State Board and the State Group
The association is organized in 17 regional groups. All members can therefore find local contact persons for their country-specific and individual matters. The regional groups have their own budget. The state groups hold a state members' meeting at least once a year.
Office
The federal office is located in Berlin-Tiergarten and is managed by the federal manager Carsten Frege.
tasks and goals
The association is committed to the concerns of its members and represents their interests vis-à-vis institutions, authorities, health insurance companies as well as in all self-government bodies and in public. The professional and social law recognition of the profession was a few years ago and in the years since the Psychotherapists Act , psychotherapy has become an important part of the health care system. Nevertheless, psychotherapy has to fight for its establishment and recognition in a constantly changing healthcare system. The DPtV is committed to the continuous development and further recognition of the psychotherapist profession and the field of psychotherapy. The association actively represents its members in the self-administration bodies of the psychotherapeutic professions, such as the associations of statutory health insurance physicians and the chambers of psychotherapists . It also cooperates with the relevant scientific specialist societies and associations.
The association works on optimizing psychotherapeutic care and securing work and income opportunities for psychotherapists. There are still a number of regulations that put psychotherapy at a disadvantage compared to somatic medicine. The elimination of these shortcomings in the outpatient and inpatient area is an important concern of the DPtV. Where necessary, it supports fee claims and helps members to enforce their demand for a fair and consistent fee policy. Extensive additional fee payments to the PP and KJP were made on the basis of judgments by the Federal Social Court. Since 2000 it has been anchored in law that psychotherapeutic services must be remunerated appropriately. The 2007 health reform (GKV-WSG) made it possible for psychotherapeutic services outside of the standard service volumes to be remunerated as individual services.
The association uses various media to inform its members about the latest professional policy and professional developments in the field of psychotherapy. However, she also provides practical advice on questions relating to psychotherapeutic work and develops materials that make everyday work easier for psychotherapists. It has further developed and tested two established quality management systems, the QEP system developed by the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians - Quality and Development in Practices - and the EPA ( European Practice Assessment ) system developed by the Göttingen AQUA Institute , in accordance with the particularities of psychotherapeutic practice and provides corresponding implementation aids to disposal.
Promotion of the next generation
The association advocates high-quality, practical and affordable training for psychological psychotherapists and child and adolescent psychotherapists. In order to guarantee this, the DPtV is a reform of the psychotherapist training and thus an amendment of the Psychotherapist Act an urgent political concern.
To support psychotherapists in training (PiA), the association maintains an interactive information and communication forum , the Piaportal (interactive information and exchange forum for psychotherapists in training). The Piaportal offers information, exchange and networking and promotes the connection between the 'established' and the 'young' in order to strengthen the profession as a whole.
Advanced training
The federal executive board and the regional groups of the DPtV regularly organize information and training events on current professional policy issues, also in connection with general meetings. The DPtV also holds congresses, seminars and workshops on practice organization, forms of cooperation, economic practice management and other topics related to psychotherapeutic work. Introductory and advanced seminars on quality management (QM) in psychotherapeutic practice and on the specific creation of a QM practice manual are also regularly offered in the respective countries.
In 2012, DPtV CAMPUS, the advanced training academy of the German Psychotherapists Association, was founded. The DPtV service has thus been supplemented by further training events in the areas of specialist events, practice management, professional policy and young psychotherapists. With the advanced training series “Clinical Organizational Psychology”, psychological psychotherapists and child and adolescent psychotherapists can obtain a certificate with which they can specifically qualify for the prevention of mental illnesses and the related cooperation with companies. DPtV CAMPUS works with qualified speakers from science and practice as well as self-administration. The program advisory board is responsible for the conception and quality assurance. All events are accredited and evaluated by the competent chamber of psychotherapists.
research
The association is committed to health services research in its professional policy work . As a member of the German Evidence-Based Medicine Network , the DPtV participates in the initiation and implementation of care-related research projects.
public relation
The association organizes events and issues press releases and publications on topics relevant to health and professional policy. In addition, the journal Psychotherapie Aktuell is published quarterly as an association organ of the DPtV, as well as the Federal Membership Letter on current topics 4–6 times a year, both with a print run of around 13,000 copies.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The association introduces itself. Retrieved October 24, 2019 .
- ↑ Petra Bühring: Gebhard Hentschel: Well networked in terms of professional policy. In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt. Volume 116, Issue 51-52, December 24, 2019, p. B 1979.
- ↑ Piaportal
- ↑ DPTV Congress
- ↑ DPtV CAMPUS
- ↑ Research projects ( Memento of the original from September 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Events
- ↑ Journal "Psychotherapie Aktuell"
