Swiss Charter for Psychotherapy
The Swiss Charter for Psychotherapy is a conference of further training institutions and professional associations for the field of psychotherapy in Switzerland. It is also an organ of the Association of Swiss Psychotherapists (ASP).
It goes back to the years 1989–1991, when a conference of leading Swiss psychotherapeutic training institutions worked out a consensus on the content, training, science and ethics of psychotherapy in the form of the "Swiss Charter for Psychotherapy", which in 1993 was composed of 27 training institutions, specialist and Professional associations was signed. Since then, the agreements have been continuously developed and implemented in democratic processes. On January 24, 1998, the conference took on the legal form of an association. As of January 1, 2014, the Charter merged with the ASP and continues to perform the same tasks as before in the structures of the ASP as a conference of further training institutions and professional associations .
In 2002 the Charter submitted a declaration on the scientific nature of psychotherapy procedures. The tension between the need to make generalizable statements and the fact of the uniqueness of the respective patient, therapist and the given therapeutic situation is emphasized.
The aim of the Swiss Charter for Psychotherapy is quality assurance and further development of psychotherapy by striving for serious psychotherapy methods with high training standards. Only institutions and procedures that have been evaluated can become members of the Charter, and compliance with the agreements is checked periodically. A scientific commission and a commission for quality assurance perform these tasks.
The charter sees the growing variety of methods as an enrichment, it enables different people to have access to psychotherapy. It is therefore also enriching that people with different scientific first-time professions become psychotherapists and contribute to the further development of the discipline.
Web links
- Charter website
- Members of the Charter
- Conference of further education institutions / professional associations (charter) on psychotherapie.ch (Association of Swiss Psychotherapists ASP)
- Text of the Charter for Psychotherapy (PDF)
- Michael Ermann: Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics: A textbook on a psychoanalytic basis . Kohlhammer Verlag, 2016
- Peter Schulthess: The training in psychotherapy in upheaval NZZ from August 26, 2008
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry page on psychotherapiecharta.ch ( Memento of the original from November 10, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) 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. "What is the Swiss Charter for Psychotherapy?
- ↑ Peter Schulthess: News from the Swiss Charter for Psychotherapy á jour Vol. 3 No. 1 2013
- ↑ Declaration of the Swiss Charter for Psychotherapy on the term and requirements for the scientific nature of psychotherapy procedures ( Memento of the original of May 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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. Psychotherapy Forum 2002 10 pp. 228-230
- ↑ Organizational structure ( memento of the original dated November 10, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. the charter
- ↑ Standpoints of the Charter ( Memento of the original from October 20, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) 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. on psychotherapiecharta.ch
