Abstract:

The determination process of all details and the establishment of regulations regarding psychotherapy, which is an important part of legal health insurance services in Germany, has taken its present form in about 50 years. It can be accepted that the process started in 1967 with the application of psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy within the scope of legal insurance. Later, the most concrete step was taken in 1999 with the Psychotherapy Law entering into force. Any specialist in the field of mental health cannot call himself a ‘psychotherapist’ with the enforcement of this law because ‘psychotherapist’ has become a legally protected profession group like ‘doctor’ in Germany. In addition to the medical doctor psychotherapists, psychologist psychotherapists, and child and adolescent psychotherapists have also started to provide services under legal insurance. In this research, the psychotherapy system, the content of psychotherapy education, the standards in professional practice, the quality of psychotherapy service or the mechanisms that provide the control of the procedural processes regarding the implementation process will be mentioned.

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