Scientific Advisory Board on Psychotherapy
The Scientific Advisory Board for Psychotherapy (WBP) is a panel of experts that is supposed to examine the scientific recognition of psychotherapy procedures in Germany.
Legal basis
The WBP is based on Section 11 of the Psychotherapists Act (PsychThG). In cases of doubt, the expert opinion prepared by the WBP should then form the basis of the competent state authority for its decision on the scientific recognition of a psychotherapy procedure. The competent state authorities are called upon to make such decisions, especially in the context of the state recognition of training centers according to Section 11 PsychThG, at which in- depth training leading to a license to practice as a ' psychological psychotherapist ' or ' child and adolescent psychotherapist ' can be completed.
occupation
The advisory board is formed jointly by the Federal Chamber of Psychotherapists (BPK) and the representation of medical psychotherapists in the Federal Chamber of Physicians (BÄK). According to the agreement of the German Medical Association and the Federal Chamber of Psychotherapists, the Advisory Board consists of twelve members, six from each chamber:
- BÄK: Six medical representatives from the areas
- Psychiatry and psychotherapy
- Psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy
- Child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy
- BPK: Six psychological psychotherapists and child and adolescent psychotherapists
The current line-up is as follows:
The current board representative of the BÄK is Cornelia Goesmann , the board representative of the BPK Rainer Richter .
Former members include a .:
- Gerhard Buchkremer
- Sven Olaf Hoffmann
- Fritz Hohagen
- Jürgen Kriz
- Jürgen Margraf (Chairman 1999 to 2005)
- Gerd Rudolf
- Dietmar Schulte (1999 to 2011, Chairman 2005 to 2011)
- Andreas Warnke
Terms of office
The terms of office were / are:
- 1st term of office October 7, 1998 to October 6, 2003
- 2nd term of office January 1, 2004 to December 31, 2008
- 3rd term of office January 1, 2009 to December 31, 2013
- 4th term of office January 1, 2014 to December 31, 2018
- 5th term of office January 1, 2019 to December 31, 2023
The office is provided by the Federal Chamber of Psychotherapists (BPtK) for even terms of office, and by the German Medical Association (BÄK) for odd terms of office.
task description
The task description includes the following individual topics:
- Development and updating of scientific criteria for the assessment of psychotherapeutic procedures or treatment methods and their application.
- Scientific assessment
- of methods and research strategies for the evaluation of psychotherapeutic procedures and treatment methods
- individual psychotherapeutic procedures or treatment methods
- the professional practice and technical application of psychotherapy
- of the indications including indication limits for psychotherapeutic procedures or treatment methods
- the requirements of psychotherapists for the qualified application of psychotherapeutic procedures or treatment methods
- psychotherapeutic care
criticism
The WBP's previous expert practice is controversial. He is accused of not restricting himself to his limited legal mandate. He examines evidence of the effectiveness of the respective psychotherapy method based on qualitative and quantitative standards that are not legally provided and technically controversial. He said that the evidence of effectiveness should cover several areas of application of psychotherapy. He has so far been unimpressed by administrative court rulings (such as VG Munich , VG Düsseldorf ), which have already denied the WBP such authority. The procedure of the WBP was explicitly reinforced by the Federal Administrative Court in its judgment of April 30, 2009 (BVerwG 3 C 4.08).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Homepage of the WBP
- ↑ current members of the WBP ( Memento of the original from April 19, 2016 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 research: Dramatically underfunded , Deutsches Ärzteblatt PP3, February 2004, p. 56. (accessed on May 28, 2012)
- ^ Vita J. Margraf
- ↑ Science as the basis of psychotherapy: Diotima Prize 2012 for Prof. Dr. Dietmar Schulte , Baden-Württemberg Chamber of Psychotherapists , May 14, 2012 (accessed on May 28, 2012)
- ↑ For the criticism, see the article by Rüdiger Nübling, The method paper of the Scientific Advisory Board for Psychotherapy, in: Psychotherapeutenjournal 2/2008 and the literature cited there
