Specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy
The specialist of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy is 1994, the previous specialist terms psychiatrist and the neurologist replaced (as a combined specialist training in psychiatry and neurology). Since then, psychotherapy has been a compulsory part of specialist training for psychiatrists.
The specialty of the psychiatrist includes the prevention , diagnosis , treatment and rehabilitation of mental disorders , especially using socio- and psychotherapeutic methods.
Specialist training
In order to work as a specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy in the Federal Republic of Germany , a total of 11 years of training and further training must be completed (6 years of medical studies , 5 years of specialist training). This requires at least five years of further training with an authorized person for further training at a further training facility. A license to practice medicine is a prerequisite for starting specialist training .
According to the model training regulations of the German Medical Association, they must
- 2 years in inpatient psychiatric and psychotherapeutic patient care
- 1 year neurology
- Up to 12 months can be taken into account in a further training course in the field of forensic psychiatry and up to 12 months in child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy or psychosomatic medicine. Alternatively, 6 months in internal medicine , general medicine , neurosurgery or neuropathology can be recognized.
Up to 2 years of further training can take place in the outpatient area.
In addition, the following must be proven: 60 supervised and documented initial examinations, 60 double hours of case seminars in general and special psychopathology with presentation of 10 patients, 10 hours of seminar in assessment, 40 hours of pharmacological and somatic therapy procedures, 10 hours of participation in a group of relatives, 40 hours of seminars for Social psychiatry , 10 hour seminar in psychiatric consultation work and prepared reports.
The psychotherapeutic further training comprises 40 completed therapies with at least 240 therapy hours, 100 hours of psychotherapy theory, 32 hours of relaxation procedures, 6 crisis interventions or supportive procedures under supervision and a crisis intervention seminar over 10 hours and 70 hours of Balint group work . 150 hours of individual or group self-experience must be proven as self-experience .
Additional designations
In Germany, specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy, on can Gerontopsychiatrie specialize, acquire an optional additional title "clinical geriatrics".
Distribution of specialist groups
According to the medical statistics of the German Medical Association, there were 10,450 working specialists for psychiatry and psychotherapy in Germany in 2015. The specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy is thus one of the comparatively rarer specialists. B. 2015 with 50,834 significantly more specialists in internal medicine.
Demarcation
The specialist in psychiatry must be distinguished from the two other specialists with psychotherapy in their title (ie the specialist in psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy and the specialist in child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy ). In addition, he is to be distinguished from the psychological psychotherapist who completed a psychotherapy training after studying psychology .
development
In-depth psychotherapeutic training has been part of the newly created specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy since 1994. The possibility of further training as a neurologist with three years of further training in psychiatry and three years in neurology existed as a transitional regulation z. B. in Bavaria until July 2011. Then you could only acquire this designation after completing both further training courses (neurologist and psychiatrist).
Professional societies
- German Society for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics and Neurology (DGPPN)
- List of psychotherapeutic specialist and professional associations
Individual evidence
- ↑ Definition of psychiatry and psychotherapy, neurologists and psychiatrists on the Internet
- ↑ a b c Federal Medical Association (Working Group of the German Medical Associations): (Sample) Further Education Regulations 2003 (in the version dated October 23, 2015). Pp. 123–127 , accessed January 3, 2018 .
- ↑ German Medical Association (2018): Medical care in Germany. Source: Medical statistics 2015 overall results , table 3, page 5.
- ^ HJ Luderer: From bloodletting, vomiting cures and fall baths to pharmacotherapy, psychotherapy and sociotherapy at the end of the 20th century. On the history of psychiatric treatment procedures . Online at www.lichtblick99.de.