Psychological psychotherapists and child and adolescent psychotherapists
According to § Abs. 1 and 3 Psychotherapist Law ("Psychotherapeutengesetz" - PsychThG):(1) Any one who wants to practise the medical psychotherapy under the occupational title psychological psychotherapists or the medical child and adolescent psychotherapy under the occupational title child and adolescent psychotherapist, needs the licensure as psychological psychotherapist or child and adolescent psychotherapist.
(3) The exercise of psychotherapy within the meaning of the law is any activity carried out by means of scientifically approved psychotherapeutic procedures to diagnose, cure or relieve disorders that are considered an illness and for which psychotherapy is indicated. Within the course of psychotherapeutic treatment a somatic clarification is obligatory. The practise of psychotherapy does not include psychological activities, which involve the scrutiny and overcoming of social conflicts or other purposes beyond the medical science.
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- Psychotherapeutendatei (Psychologische Psychotherapeuten und Kinder- und Jugendlichenpsychotherapeuten) - Methods [general]
- Federal Registry of Psychotherapists (psychotherapists, psychological psychotherapists and child and adolescent psychotherapists)
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