German Working Group of Day Clinics for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics (DATPPP)
The German Working Group of Day Clinics for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics (DATPPP) is an association founded in 2004 and based in Karlsruhe ; this is the only association of psychiatric and psychosomatic day clinics in Germany.
Meaning of day clinics
Since the care of mentally ill people has been increasingly less remote and much more integrated into everyday life for many years, the 720 day clinics for psychiatry and psychosomatics (2017) play a prominent role. Almost a quarter of these are operated as an independent hospital and three quarters are operated by a fully inpatient psychiatric hospital or a psychiatric department in all legal forms customary for clinics. On average, the sick are treated for around 35 working days and, for the most part, treated further in an affiliated psychiatric outpatient department. The tendency to establish new day clinics continues. Using regional hospital budgets and special agreements, flexible forms of treatment are being tested that may be used nationwide in the future. All diagnostic groups such as depression , schizophrenia , anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorders , personality disorders , post-traumatic stress disorders , somatization disorders, but also addictions , behavioral disorders in the case of intellectual disabilities or dementias can be treated with an appropriately designed therapy program.
Tasks and activities
With annual day clinic symposia, DATPPP organizes the only nationwide conference for psychiatric and psychosomatic day clinics at different locations: 2016 Erfurt, 2015 Ludwigsburg, 2014 Aachen, 2013 Munich, 2012 Kiel, 2011 Würzburg, 2010 Friedrichshafen, 2009 Soest, 2008 Bergisch Gladbach, 2007 Weimar.
The chairman of DATPPP was Bernd Eikelmann , Karlsruhe , from 2004 to 2014 . After his death, Herald Hopf , Berlin, took over the management of the association.
In addition to advice to day clinics, their employees and operators, the search for day clinics close to home for patients and information on day clinic concepts, the DATPPP offers advanced training for employees who want to prepare for day clinic work. In addition, DATPPP supports research on day clinics, maintains contacts with professional associations in the field of psychiatry and psychosomatics, and develops European exchange with day clinics in neighboring countries.
literature
- B. Eikelmann: Day clinical treatment in psychiatry. In: Neurologist. 81, 2010, pp. 355-365.
- A. Finzen: A Brief History of the Psychiatric Day Clinic. Psychiatrie-Verlag , Cologne 2003.
- H. Hopf, E. Diebels: Characteristics and practice of psychiatric day clinics in Germany, Psychiat Prax, doi : 10.1055 / s-0042-115846 .
- U. Schultz-Venrath: Psychotherapies in day clinics: methods, concepts, structures. Medical Scientific Publishing Company, Berlin 2011.
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Footnotes
- ↑ The DATPPP. Retrieved September 26, 2019 . }