Child and Jugendlichenpsychotherapeut is one in Germany since January 1999 by the Psychotherapeutengesetz (PsychThG) legally protected job title, which presupposes a national permission for the practice of the medicine (license to practise medicine).

A child and a Jugendlichenpsychotherapeut have themselves after an final higher education of the psychology, Sozialp¤dagogik, which specializes social work or more rarely the medicine on the area of the Psychotherapie for children trained further and.

A condition for the training as Kinder-und Jugendlichenpsychotherapeuten is an final study in the course of studies psychology or in some Lands of the Federal Republic also social work or teaching profession.

With a license to practise medicine by the responsible authorities of the German Lands of the Federal Republic permission for the practice of the Psychotherapie is given to the appropriate persons with children and young people.

Even if the license to practise medicine covers permission for the treatment of adults, the job title reads depending upon basic occupation of psychological Psychotherapeut or physician.

Psychological Psychotherapeuten and child and young person Psychotherapeuten in own practice work, have often also a cash permission, i.e. a treatment accomplished by them becomes from the legal health insurance companies, which aid and most private health insurances pay.

With the legal health insurance companies applies only to treatments, which according to the so-called Psychotherapierichtlinien are accomplished, for a series of agreements between the legal health insurers and the cash-medical combinations. These cover treatment and request modalities and the restriction on so far three therapy procedures: Behavior therapy and depth-psychological procedures whereby here, as with the Psychotherapie for adult, between whom depth-psychologically founding and the analytic Psychotherapie are differentiated, in whom it to three general theoretical directions gives: once the psychoanalysis after Sigmund Freud, the analytic psychology after Carl Gustav young and the individual psychology after Alfred eagle. The is not recognized with the treatment of child and young people.

In Austria and Switzerland there are not Psychotherapeuten, which specialized in the treatment of children and young people, these likewise carries however the German job title.

The occupation of the child and Jugendlichenpsychotherapeuten is from the occupation of the Psychagogen hervorgegeangen. This is an occupation developed from the psychoanalysis, which almost exclusively paedagogues with a training analysis exercised. As founders of the Psychagogik or analytic child and Jugendlichenpsychotherapie Anna Freud and Melanie small is considered.

See also: Psychological disturbance, ICD-10,

Related links

• German Bundespsychotherapeutenkammer
• Swiss Psychotherapeutinnen and Psychotherapeutenverband ASPV

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