LVR-Klinikum Düsseldorf Hospital of the Heinrich-Heine University ...

lVr-KlINIKUM DÜSSelDOrF – HOSPItal OF tHe HeINrIcH-HeINe UNIVerSItY DÜSSelDOrF
Healthcare for Outpatients and Day Care Patients
Day Care Unit
The Day Care Unit of the Department of Psychosomatic
Medicine and Psychotherapy of the LVR-Klinikum Düsseldorf
provides 19 places for treatment of people suffering from
psychosomatic disorders, affective disorders, anxiety
disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorders, adjustment
disorders, dissociative disorders or eating disorders,
many of whom are also afflicted by comorbid personality
disorders. Day care treatment strategies have proved
specifically effective in the treatment of people from these
groups whose requirements would not have been met by a
conventional outpatient psychotherapy and for whom full
hospitalisation would have been either unnecessary or,
bearing in mind their emotional needs for interpersonal
distance and autonomy, counterproductive. The methods
and objectives of the Day Care Unit do not differ substantially
from those of the inpatient ward. The patients still spend the
majority of their time in their customary and familiar social
contexts, spending eight hours a day for five days a week in
the Day Care Unit. This means that patients have to engage
with both the situation at the Day Care Unit – the wide range
of therapeutic options, the interpersonal relationships and
the standards – and the relationships and conditions of their
external everyday lives that have been altered through their
therapies.
Institutional Outpatient Unit
The Institutional Outpatient Unit of the Department of
Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy examines
persons suffering from psychosomatic disorders, affective
disorders, anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive
disorders, adjustment disorders, dissociative disorders,
eating disorders and decompensated personality disorders
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and, if necessary, recommends outpatient treatment, day
care or full hospitalisation. Subsequent to descriptivepsychopathological
and psychodynamic diagnostics,
and after acquiring some background information about
the individual’s social conditions, the patient is referred
for appropriate treatment according to the indication.
If necessary, individuals are invited to participate in
additional interviews to strengthen their motivation to
undergo psychotherapy and to assist in their search for a
therapy place. Offers for special treatment include a shortterm
group psychotherapy for patients with somatoform
disorders, a short-term psychotherapy for patients with
personality disorders and psychosomatic disorders and
group therapy sessions for gerontopsychosomatic patients.
Culture-sensitive individual and group therapy programmes
are also provided for victims of torture, migrants and
refugees.
Special consultation hours are held for people suffering
from attention-deficit/hyperactivity syndrome.
Current Scientific staff
Medical doctors
C. Brinschwitz, S. Dechering, K. Eder, A. Gdawietz, M. Jente,
L. Joksimovic, U. Nawarotzky, J. Rademacher, W. Tress,
M. A. Wulf
Psychologists and other (non-medical) staff
V. Bergstein, H.-J. Bernard, J. Bierwirth, M. Cavka, J. Hardt,
D. Hecke, M. Hoshino, D. Kunzke, S. Michalek, E. Neumann,
N. Schmitz, M. Schröder, A. Stratkötter