Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy
The Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy ( KJP ) is a facility of the Palatinate Clinic AdöR in Klingenmünster. This community-sponsored child and adolescent psychiatric clinic offers examination and treatment options for children and adolescents between the ages of four and 18 years. The Pfalzklinikum is sponsored by the Palatinate District Association .
Headquarters and locations
The clinic's headquarters are in Klingenmünster ( Südliche Weinstrasse district ) on the western edge of the Rhine plain.
Locations:
- Klingenmünster: Institute outpatient clinic, day clinic and wards for children and adolescents including youth forensics
- Kaiserslautern: Day clinic and institute outpatient clinic for children and adolescents
- Pirmasens: day clinic and institute outpatient clinic for children and adolescents
- Speyer: Day clinic and institute outpatient clinic for children and adolescents
Services
The clinic provides in- patient and out-patient maximum care in the field of mental illnesses in children and adolescents. It encompasses child and adolescent psychiatric, psychosomatic and psychotherapeutic areas. In the social therapy department of the KJP, convicted patients with a mental disorder are treated from the age of 14.
Catchment area
One district cities:
Kaiserslautern, Landau, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, Pirmasens, Speyer Zweibrücken
Counties:
Bad Dürkheim, Donnersberg, Germersheim, Kaiserslautern, Kusel, Südliche Weinstrasse, West Palatinate, as well as the southern part of the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis with the association communities Böhl-Iggelheim, Dudenhofen, Hanhofen, Harthausen, Otterstadt, Römerberg, Schifferstadt and Waldsee.
The youth forensics department is responsible for Rhineland-Palatinate.
meaning
The clinic provides maximum care with 60 inpatient beds and 65 day clinic places for the treatment of children and adolescents. Around 1,100 children and young people are treated as inpatients and semi-inpatients every year. In the institute's outpatient clinics in Klingenmünster, Kaiserslautern, Pirmasens and Speyer, around 3,000 children and adolescents are treated each year, and outreach child and youth psychiatric treatment continues in the surrounding youth welfare facilities. In the social therapy department of the KJP, 16 places are provided for convicted patients from Rhineland-Palatinate.
Initial and continuing education
The KJP is a training center for obtaining the specialist title “Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy”; the head physician who is authorized to continue training is fully authorized for 48 months.
For the license to practice child and adolescent psychotherapists, the KJP offers practical training in cooperation with state-recognized advanced training institutes.
history
On July 9, 1954, the work with mentally ill children and adolescents in the "Palatinate Psychiatric Clinic Landeck" was combined in a separate department for child and adolescent psychiatry.
In 1985 the establishment of its own clinic took place under the name "Palatinate Institute for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy" with its own medical director, nursing director and staff council. In the course of the restructuring at the beginning of the third millennium, the “Pfalzinstitut” became a facility in the Pfalzklinikum again. The name “Pfalzinstitut” was dropped again in 2018.
literature
- Karl Scherer, Otfried K. Linde and Roland Paul (eds.): The Klingenmünster sanatorium and nursing home 1933–1945. Psychiatry under National Socialism . Institute for Palatinate History and Folklore, Kaiserslautern 1998 (2 additional editions), ISBN 3-927754-34-X .