German Association for Behavioral Therapy
The German Association for Behavioral Therapy is a specialist psychotherapeutic society in which behavioral psychotherapists, child and adolescent psychotherapists and doctors, as well as training and advanced training institutes have come together. The German Association for Behavioral Therapy is committed to high quality standards in psychotherapeutic training and further education as well as in patient care.
history
The German Association for Behavioral Therapy was founded in 1992 through the merger of the German Academy for Behavioral Therapy (DAVT) and the Association for Clinical Behavioral Therapy (FKV). In the DVT and in both predecessor associations, in addition to practically behavioral psychotherapists v. a. Lecturers and supervisors active in training as well as many training institutes for behavioral therapy. These were in particular training institutes that were approved by the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (KBV) before the Psychotherapists Act of 1998 for the qualification of qualified psychologists for the delegation procedure.
Activities and networking
Every two years, the German Association for Behavioral Therapy organizes a symposium on current specialist topics. In addition, regular conferences and meetings are organized by supervisors, self-awareness managers and outpatient managers working in psychotherapy training. Members and officials of the DVT are in professional bodies and committees of the psychotherapist, such as B. the State Chamber of Psychotherapists, the German Psychotherapist Day, the Scientific Advisory Board for Psychotherapy or working groups of the Federal Chamber of Psychotherapists are active and represent the interests of behavior therapy and behavior therapists. The DVT is a member of the European Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (EABCT), the European umbrella organization for behavioral therapy, as well as in discussion group II (GK-II) of the psychotherapist associations in Germany and in the Federal Working Group of Training Association Associations (BAG).
Structure and bodies
The German Association for Behavioral Therapy has between 400 and 500 full members and another 300 or so extraordinary members. These are usually psychotherapists in training (PiA) who can become members for a reduced fee. Furthermore, 34 training and further education institutions are members of the DVT as institutes. The highest decision-making body of the DVT is the general assembly, which meets annually. It elects the 5-member board, which consists of the first and second chairman and 3 assessors.
- Current Board of Directors (as of 2018)
- 1st chairman: Walter Ströhm
- 2nd chairman: Ulrich Schweiger
- Assessor: Claudia Stromberg, Kurt Quaschner & Hans Gunia
Further bodies of the DVT are the institute committee, the quality assurance commission (QSK) and the PiA representation in the DVT.
Publications
The publications of the German Association for Behavioral Therapy are the journals Behavioral Therapy & Behavioral Medicine and Behavioral Therapy . The former is made available to association members as an e-paper.
Recently, representatives of the DVT have repeatedly expressed themselves in articles and contributions on questions of the quality of training and further education in psychotherapy as well as on the discussion about a reform of psychotherapy training in Germany.
Individual evidence
- ^ German Association for Behavioral Therapy eV: Home. Retrieved August 30, 2017 .
- ^ DGVT story: The fourth phase. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 11, 2013 ; accessed on August 30, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Hammelstein, Philipp .: Behavioral therapy mon amour: Myth - Fiction - Reality . Schattauer, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 3-7945-2752-6 , p. 196 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ Deutscher Ärzteverlag GmbH, editorial office of Deutsches Ärzteblatt: Reform of psychotherapy training: Well thought-out proposals . March 2016 ( aerzteblatt.de [accessed on August 30, 2017]).
- ↑ Tripp, J .; Schweiger, U .; Ströhm, W .; Stromberg, C. & Quaschner, K .: Quality in Further Education: Current Status and Future of Psychotherapeutic Education and Further Education. In: Behavior Therapy 2015, Vol.25 (2). Retrieved August 30, 2017 .
- ↑ Jürgen Tripp, Hans Gunia, Kurt Quaschner, Ulrich Schweiger, Walter Ströhm & Claudia Stromberg: Model of advanced training in advanced training institutes and training centers. (No longer available online.) In: Behavior Therapy & Psychosoziale Praxis 3/2015. DGVT, archived from the original on February 21, 2018 ; accessed on August 30, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Walter Ströhm, Ulrich Schweiger & Jürgen Tripp: Concept of further training after direct training in psychotherapy. (PDF) In: Psychotherapeutenjournal 3/2013. Retrieved August 30, 2017 .
