Innovative. Close to domicile. Human. by Elena Posth & Romina Männl Mental health is a major issue in Rhineland-Palatinate. For years, Pfalzklinikum, as a service provider for mental health, has been trying to make treatment and care more innovative. This year, Pfalzklinikum was able to start into a new era of treatment at all its…
Forensic Treatment of Young People as a Chance By Laura Kirschbacher Forensic treatment of young people is an area of conflict: Between rules and educational work, on the one hand and the opportunities for teenagers’ and adolescents’ personal development, on the other hand. Between reform and safeguarding, between educational missions and instructions for building up…
Because they know how it is: Peer counselling at the eye level in the Palatinate region The Federal Participation Act of 23rd December 2016 changed on 1st January 2017 con-cerning the performance right of the social code IX and described with its changes, a fundamental paradigm shift in the right to rehabilitation and participation of…
Mental health in Germany: A focus on ward-equivalent treatment Laura Kirschbacher, Corporate Communications Manager at Pfalzklinikum AdöR talks about ward-equivalent treatment (WeT), a special kind of hometreatment, where a multi-professional team visits the patients at home. She accompanied WeT social worker Linda Seez to find out more Ward-equivalent treatment (WeT) is a complex psychiatric psychotherapeutic…
People succeeding in acting adaptively and proactively even in crisis situations, under extreme stress or unfavorable conditions have considerably higher chances to sustainably stay healthy. To successfully handle every-day stressors, chronic stress such as diseases but also critical and traumatizing events in life and to be able to adapt to changing environmental conditions despite a…
The Werther effect Handling of suicide in the media Vivien Kogler and Alexander Noyon from Mannheim University of Applied Sciences investigate suicidality, the Werther effect and the role of medial presentation in this context. As guest authors at Pfalzklinikum they summarized the subject of the thesis written by Vivien Kogler. The Werther effect is the…
Autonomous in Old Age “Lisa Ehrhardt, Head of Regional Offers – Living in Old Age” at Pfalzklinikum presents the work of their day centres for the elderly in the Palatinate Pfalzklinikum is a service provider for mental health in Southwest Germany. Its three certified day centres for the elderly focus on the promotion of cognitive…
A postcard showing a canopy bed: An ex-user of mental health services shares his story In an interview, Franz-Josef Wagner tells Elena Posth from Pfalzklinikum AdöR about his experiences as an ex-user of mental health services in the Rhineland-Palatinate region of Germany Franz-Josef Wagner is the chairman of the state association of (ex-)users of mental…