Practice-Oriented Training in the Study Program in Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy

The law to reform the training of psychotherapists entails that students in Germany must be prepared to a greater extent for clinical-practical patient treatment. An important part of this preparatory training should take place within the framework of the so-called "berufsqualifizierende Tatigkeit" (BQT, practice-oriented training), in which the treatment of mental disorders should be taught both theoretically and practically. In the paper a teaching concept for 90 students is presented, which is currently planned and favoured at the Ruhr University Bochum and which we describe here with a focus on how the university (BQT II) and outpatient parts (BQT III) of the BQT are implemented. At first, we outline the individual components of the BQT and their structure in the course of the study. Then we explain how we want to implement the knowledge transfer required in the BQT II in theoretical case seminars and how the students should then be integrated into patient treatment in the context of BQT III by means of practical case seminars and as therapy assistants. At the end of the article, we describe the personnel requirement planning for our concept. (c) 2020 S. Karger AG, Basel