Psychotherapie

Two new therapeutic approaches are compared – one, after more than twenty years of development, is about to become the predominant therapeutic direction. Like its predecessors, dialectical behavioral therapy DBT and schema therapy,...

While the current discussion on new forms of quality assurance (QA) in outpatient psychotherapy, exemplified by the new german »DeQS«-guidelines, is dominated by issues of outcome quality, a new model is introduced that expands the QA discussion...

The QA procedure and its testing in Nordrhein-Westfalen is described, the likely effects on psychotherapy are presented, and ways of dealing with it are outlined.

Quality assurance (QA) in outpatient psychotherapy is undergoing significant changes. After the IQTIG (Institute for Quality Assurance and Transparency in Healthcare) was commissioned by the G-BA (Federal Joint Committee) in May 2018, and the...

Therapy without diagnosis – Diagnosis without therapy? With thorough research of pathogenically relevant variables, large amounts of data accumulate quickly; if one wants to see their change in therapeutic effort, they multiply according to the...

Stephen Porges’s polyvagal theory proposes to integrate various scientific disciplines such as anatomy, physiology, psychophysiology, evolutionary and developmental biology, social sciences and psychotherapy together with special evolutionary...

Background: In the therapy process, there are factors of impact that can promote symptomatic improvements in the patient. In therapy process research there is a transition to a continuous process measurement and differences in perspectives between...

This article examines quality management in outpatient psychotherapy from both historical and structural perspectives. It includes a (professional) political contextualization. The profession is encouraged to creatively establish new forms of...