Federation of Swiss Psychologists

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Federation of Swiss Psychologists
(FSP)
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purpose Professional association for psychologists
Chair: Yvik Adler and Stephan Wenger, Co-Presidium
Executive Director: Muriel Brinkrolf
Establishment date: September 19, 1987
Number of members: > 8000
Seat : Bern
Website: www.psychologie.ch

The Federation of Swiss Psychologists (FSP) has been the largest professional association of male and female psychologists in Switzerland since it was founded in 1987 . Today it has more than 7,700 members (around 50% of whom are psychotherapists) and consists of 46 member associations that have come together in a federation as an umbrella organization . The FSP publishes the magazine Psychoscope as "Magazin für Psychologie". The FSP is a founding member of the European Federation of Psychological Associations .

Membership and Goals

Members can become people who have completed a master's degree in psychology at a Swiss university or university of applied sciences (or an equivalent degree from a non-Swiss university). You commit yourself to regular advanced training and to compliance with the ethical principles set out in the professional code. FSP members are entitled to use the addition “ FSP ” after the professional title “Psychologist”, which stands for serious, scientifically sound and practically tested psychological services.

Basic data
Title: Federal law on psychological professions
Short title: Psychology Professions Act
Abbreviation: PsyG
Type: Federal law
Scope: Switzerland
Legal matter: Service industry
Systematic
legal collection (SR) :		 935.81
Original version from: March 18, 2011
Entry into force on: May 1, 2012 (Art. 36 + 37);
April 1, 2013 (except Art. 38-43)
August 1, 2016 Art. 38-43
Please note the note on the applicable legal version.

The Psychological Professions Act, which came into force in 2013, and its ordinances regulate the protection of titles and the professional duties of psychologists. Purposes are the protection of health and the protection against deception and misleading of persons who make use of services in the field of psychology. For this purpose, recognized domestic university degrees in psychology, requirements for further training, requirements for obtaining a federal further education title, periodic accreditation of further education courses, recognition of foreign qualifications and further education titles, requirements for the private professional practice of psychotherapy in one's own professional responsibility as well as the requirements for the Use of protected professional titles and federal advanced training titles established. The associated regulation regulates u. a. Further education, recognition of foreign qualifications, accreditation of further education courses, use of titles in job titles. This psychological professions law, including the related ordinance, was the main strategic goal of the FSP for many years, and it played a decisive role in its adoption. The Federal Office of Public Health is the point of contact for all questions in this context and has published an FAQ .

The members of the FSP are offered advanced training courses that lead to various specialist titles and additional qualification certificates. In addition, there are opportunities for professional-political and scientific exchange of ideas and opinions and for networking.

The goals of the association include:

  • The improvement of the social, economic and legal position of psychologists working in Switzerland and their networking
  • The promotion of basic, advanced and advanced training, among other things, through the creation of qualification certificates
  • The protection of the public from the misuse of psychology by issuing a binding professional code for the members.

Professional policy goals

The association is currently primarily involved in three professional-political projects with the aim of improving the attractiveness and reputation of the psychology professions.

  • Psychotherapy project: inclusion of psychological psychotherapy as an independent service in the basic insurance
  • Psychologists in institutions: (e.g. health care): The working and employment conditions are often inadequate. The FSP is committed to improving these.
  • Job profiles: Job profiles: The public should be made aware of what psychology actually is and what different job profiles and fields there are.

Specialized title and additional qualifications

The FSP awards the following specialist titles, for which the completion of an FSP-recognized further education is usually required:

  • Specialized psychologist for psychotherapy FSP
  • Specialized psychologist for child and adolescent psychology FSP
  • Specialized psychologist for career and personnel psychology FSP
  • Specialized psychologist for clinical psychology FSP
  • Specialized psychologist for neuropsychology FSP
  • Specialized psychologist for traffic psychology FSP
  • Specialist psychologist for legal psychology FSP
  • Specialized psychologist for health psychology FSP
  • Specialized psychologist for sport psychology FSP
  • Specialized psychologist for coaching psychology FSP

The following additional qualifications are also awarded based on the completion of an FSP-recognized training course:

  • FSP additional qualification in geriatric psychology
  • FSP additional qualification in cognitive-behavioral supervision
  • FSP additional qualification in emergency psychology
  • FSP additional qualification in oncological psychology
  • FSP additional qualification in victim support

The compulsory training requires FSP members to complete at least 240 hours of training every three years. Individual member associations can define additional instructions and recommendations. This is to ensure the high standard of the services provided by FSP members.

Commissions

The following commissions exist:

  • Professional Ethics Committee (BEK)
  • Education Commission (BK)
  • Business Audit Committee (GPK)
  • Editorial Committee Psychoscope (REKO)
  • Appeals Commission (RK)
  • Arbitration Board

Member associations of the FSP

The Swiss Society for Psychology (SGP) as a scientific society was a founding member of the FSP as a professional association . In September 2015, the SGP made an amendment to the statutes that members of the SGP no longer have to be members of the FSP. As a result, the SGP has not been a member of the FSP since the beginning of 2016. As in the neighboring German-speaking countries, the Science Society SGP and the professional association FSP have since become equal partners in the representation of psychology in Switzerland, but they continue to cooperate.

The FSP comprises the following member associations in which psychologists organize themselves regionally and according to work areas:

Cantonal associations

  • AFP / FPV Association Fribourgeoise des Psychologues / Freiburg Association of Psychologists
  • AGPsy Association Genevoise des Psychologues
  • AJBFPP Association Jurassienne et Bernoise francophone des Psychologues et Psychologues-Psychothérapeutes
  • ANPP Association Neuchâteloise des Psychologues et Psychologues-Psychothérapeutes
  • APPV Association des Psychologues et Psychothérapeutes du Valais
  • VWPP Association of Valais Psychologists and Psychotherapists
  • ATPP Associazione Ticinese degli Psicologi e degli Psicoterapeuti
  • AVP Association Vaudoise des Psychologues
  • OSPP Association of Psychologists in Eastern Switzerland
  • PPB Association of Psychologists in Basel
  • VAP Association of Aargau Psychologists
  • VBP Association of Bernese Psychologists
  • VIPP Association of Central Switzerland Psychologists
  • VSP Association of Solothurn Psychologists
  • ZüPP Cantonal Association of Zurich Psychologists

Professional associations

  • APPOPS / SPPVP - Association des Psychologues et des Psychotherapeutes d'Orientation Psychanalytique de Suisse / Swiss Association of Psychologists and Psychotherapists in Psychoanalytical Direction / Associazione Svizzera degli Psycologi e Psicoterapeuti d'Orientazione psicoanalitica
  • ASPCo / SVKoP - Association Suisse de Psychothérapie Cognitive, section des psychologues / Swiss Association for Cognitive Psychotherapy, Psychologist Section
  • ASPSC / SPVKS -Association Suisse des Psychologues Sexologues Cliniciens / Swiss Association of Psychologists Clinical Sexologists
  • AVM-CH - Working Group for Behavior Modification Switzerland, Psychologist Section
  • ghyps - Society for Clinical Hypnosis, Psychologist Section
  • IBP - Psychologist Section of the Swiss Association for Integrative Body Psychotherapy
  • IIPB - Section Switzerland of the International Institute for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy / Section Suisse de l'Institut International de Psychanalyse et de Psychothérapie Charles Baudouin
  • NWP / RPPS - Network for Scientific Psychotherapy / Réseau Professionel de la Psychothérapie Scientifique
  • pca.acp - Swiss Society for the Person-Centered Approach, FSP section / Société Suisse pour l'approche centrée sur la personne, section FSP
  • PDH - Psychodrama Helvetia, association of psychodramatists in Switzerland
  • psy4work.ch - Swiss Association of Work and Organizational Psychologists
  • RR - Section des psychologues de Relance Relationelle / Psychologists section of Relance Relationelle
  • SAGKB / GSTIC - Swiss Working Group for Kathathymes Bilderleben, PsychologInnensektion / Groupement Suisse de Travail d'Imagination Catathyme, section des psychologues
  • SASP / ASPS - Swiss Working Group for Sport Psychology / Association Suisse de Psychologie du Sport
  • SFDP - Swiss Association for Daseinsanalytische Psychotherapy, Psychologist Section
  • SGGPsy / SSPsyS - Swiss Society for Health Psychology
  • SGIT - Swiss Society for Integrative Therapy, Psychologist Section; Société Suisse de Thérapie Intégrative, section des psychologues
  • SGLP - Swiss Society for Career Advice
  • SGPO - Swiss Society for Psycho-Oncology, Section FSP
  • SGRP / SSPL - Swiss Society for Forensic Psychology / Société Suisse de Psychologie Légale
  • SGVT / SSTCC - Swiss Society for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy , Psychologist Section / Société Suisse de Thérapie Comportementale et Cognitive , section des psychologues
  • SKJP / ASPEA - Swiss Association for Child and Adolescent Psychology / Association Suisse de Psychologie de l'enfance et de l'adolescence
  • SPK - Section FSP of the Swiss Society of Psychotherapists for Children and Adolescents / Section FSP de la société suisse des psychothérapeutes d'enfants et d'adolescents
  • SSCP / SGCP - Swiss Society for Coaching Psychology
  • SSS - Swiss Society of Sexology, Section psychologues
  • SVG - Swiss Association for Gestalt Therapy and Integrative Therapy, Psychologist Section
  • SVKP / ASPC - Swiss Association of Clinical Psychologists / Association Suisse des Psychologues Cliniciennes et Cliniciens
  • SVNP / ASNP - Swiss Association of Neuropsychologists / Association Suisse des Neuropsychologues
  • Systemis - Swiss Society for Systems Therapy, Psychologist Section
  • VfV / SPC - Swiss Association for Traffic Psychology / Société Suisse de Psychologie de la Circulation
  • VNP.CH - Emergency Psychology Association

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Board of the FSP
  2. ↑ Interview with Ruth Burckhardt Psychoscope 8/9 2012 p. 24f
  3. ^ The FSP on psychologie.ch
  4. ^ The association on psychologie.ch
  5. ↑ 935.81 Federal Act on Psychology Professions on admin.ch
  6. ↑ Legislation on psychological professions (including the psychological professions ordinance and ordinance on the psychological professions register)
  7. ↑ Title protection on psychologie.ch
  8. ↑ 935.811 Ordinance on the Psychology Professions of March 15, 2013 on admin.ch
  9. ^ History of the PsyG on psychologie.ch
  10. ↑ Frequently asked questions (FAQ) about the Psychology Professions Act (PsyG) on bag.admin.ch
  11. ↑ Professional policy projects of the FSP
  12. ^ Technical title of the FSP
  13. ↑ advanced training
  14. ↑ Gliedverbänder the FSP