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persons – several target syndromes need to be addressed at the same time,
individualised treatment plans are created on the basis of the entire range
of treatments available in the division. The objective of the treatment –
abstinence – is worked towards by using a psychoeducational approach in
individual and group therapy sessions (for example in motivational groups
in which addictive behaviour patterns are analysed). The Institutional
Outpatient Unit provides continuity of treatment by allowing the patient
to consult the medical doctor he has come to know from his inpatient
treatment.
Milieu therapy and psychotherapy unit
The complex range of therapies offered by unit 14 G aims to treat acute
mental disorders through drug treatment and psychotherapy, but also
to prevent secondary disabilities and to promote the reintegration into
an appropriate social environment. These therapies are designed to help
persons who require – in addition to treatment for their acute symptoms –
a range of additional person-centred or environment-related interventions
(family and marital therapy) in an inpatient setting. On a social level, the
preparations for a reintegration into active work and employment have a high
priority.
Day Care Unit
The range of therapies offered by the Day Care Unit is mainly designed to
help people suffering from depression, anxiety or the negative symptoms
of a psychosis. Treatment is mainly based on psychoeducation and
psychotherapy (in individual as well as group sessions) in combination with
drug treatment. One advantage of this approach is that patients can receive
treatment while remaining in their families and social environments. This
allows us to narrow the focus of the therapy – for the entire length of its
duration – to those areas of patients’ lives in which the disorder occurred
or became apparent. Patients therefore have the opportunity to subject
the experiences they have practised at the Day Care Unit to an immediate
practical test – or, conversely, to analyse conflicts and problems experienced
at home in the Day Care Unit.
Institutional Outpatient Unit
The Institutional Outpatient Unit provides therapies for persons with a
difficult course or chronically recurrent symptoms, for example persons
suffering from schizophrenic psychoses, affective disorders, severe
personality disorders or comorbid symptoms. A multiprofessional team
provides different types of diagnostics and treatments in highly individualised
one-on-one and group sessions. The Institutional Outpatient Unit was
established gradually between 2001 and 2008 and currently treats about
1,500 patients per year.
Division Head
S. Cohen, MD
(Interim Head since October 2008),
H. Quadbeck, MD
(until September 2008)
Senior Consultant
J. Closset (acting)
HealtHcare
Consultants
T. Schillen, MD, Senior Lecturer (until 2004)
R. Brosteanu, MD (until 2002)
Divisional Director of Nursing
E. Haas
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