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Ausbildung in Cognitiver Verhaltenstherapie curricuum Cognitive Behavior Therapy CBT

Cognitive-Behavior Therapy (CBT), Curriculum 2015 - 2018

German-Chinese Training Program for Psychotherapy
Cognitive-Behavior Therapy (CBT)
Curriculum 2015 – 2018

National Continuous Advanced Training Program – Cognitive Behavioral – Psychotherapy
German – Chinese Curriculum of Cognitive – Behavioral – Psychotherapy 2015-2018

Objectives
Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapy is a very effective psychotherapy for outpatient and inpatient treatment of mentally ill patients. Therefore, in recent years, it is worldwide the most applied psychotherapy. To treat patients with CBT therapists need profound theoretical knowledge, analysing of the family background, the function of the symptoms and to understand the belief system of the patient. The aim of CBT is to help the patient to find new solutions for his problems.
The title of the curriculum is adopted to international standards and is called „Cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT)”. The program will cover the theoretical background of Behavior Psychotherapy as well as its application with adults in different settings.
The precondition of Chinese colleagues is to take part in a preseminar. The second precondition is continuous clinical practice.
A continuous participation of all seminars is obligatory to get the certification of the complete training programme.

Time schedule and organization
The training includes a preseminar and five seminars spread over a time period of three years with a total of 330 hours of seminars, lectures and exercises. Training language is English and Chinese. The preseminar will be conducted by Chinese teachers only. The training will be conducted by 3 (2 is accepted) German and Chinese teachers. Each of these seminars will last six days without one day rest. The teachers will present theoretical knowledge as well as therapeutic skills. Additionally, German and Chinese lecturers will provide case work, supervision and self-experience. Two evening lectures in one seminar with tertian once.

Seminar place and organization
The seminars will be held in Nanjing University, organized by the department for Medical Psychology in Nanjing brain hospital of Nanjing University.

The place and organization will be a cooperation of the Nanjing University (Zhang Ning et. al.), Chengdu West China University(Yang Yanchun, Zhan Lan ) Beijing University (Qian Mingyi, Fang Xin et al ) , Humboldt University Berlin (Thomas Fydrich et al.,) , Freie Universitaet Berlin ( Babette Renneberg et al ) , Heidelberg University ( Hinrich Bents et al ), DCAP (Margarete Haass-Wiesegart, Jia Jing Lee)

Seminar work
The basic principles of Cognitve -Behavior Psychotherapy are presented theoretically, demonstrated practically, reflected on, discussed and trained in practice. More and more time will be spent on case supervision and self-reflection.

Requirements and participants tasks

During the training seminars each participant has to
• attend two case supervisions
• prepare 5 excerpts. Each excerpt shall be a three-page literal recording of the therapy with a patient.

The transcripts will be read and commented by the instructors. The excerpts shall relate to the topics of the seminars. All the homework of the participants has to be done in English or Chinese

Between the seminars participants are supposed
• to do homework assignments and to reflect upon the new knowledge gained and to integrate into their therapeutical work
• attend an intervision group for case discussion in his home town/ or province.

Between the 4th and 5th seminar, each participant has to write a final essay, which may be
a documentation of the therapeutical process of a specific case over the course of several sessions including the reflection of the therapists’ own process during the therapy.

Studybook
During the training program, participants document their work, participation on the seminar, homeworks, self-experience, participation in intervision groups in a study-book, which will be signed by the responsible German or Chinese teachers.

Self- experience
Self-experience is integrated with relation to specific topics of the seminars and will be intensified in individual sessions. Each of the participants has to attend a minimum of four sessions of individual self-experience. Additionally, each participant has to write a personal emotional biography.

Study material

Study material will include

• chapters of relevant books
• summaries of chapters and articles
• study material of the teachers (power-point slides; presentations)

Material will be translated into Chinese language.

Preseminar Seminar – Nanjing, September 2015

Only Chinese teachers
1.1. Basics of learning theory
1.2. Main theoretical background of CBT I
1.3. Models of etiology of mental disorders
1.4. Classification of mental disorders
1.5. Principles of psychometric assessment / assessment of change
1.6. The role of ethic in Psychotherapy
1.7. Case discussion
– Homework: Emotional CV

My expectation to be a good Psychotherapist

German (2-3,3 is better) and Chinese teachers (First to Five Seminar)

First Seminar – Nanjing, 2016
April 4-9, 2016
2. Why CBT

3. Some theoretical background of other psychotherapeutic schools II

4. Functional Behavioral Analysis and case conceptionalization

4.1. Basics of functional behavioral analysis (horizontal and vertical)

4.2. Concept and skills in therapeutic interviewing
4.3. First contact with patients
4.4. Acquisition of relevant information in CBT

5. Therapeutic relationship

5.1. Basic variables of the psychotherapeutic process
5.2. Ethical issues in CBT II
5.3. Context for psychotherapeutic working
5.4. Resources actualization versus problemorientation

6. Standard intervention techniques in CBT (1)

6.1. relaxation techniques (progressive muscle relaxation
6.2. imagination

7. Exercise

7.1. Therapeutic interviewing
7.2. Important therapeutic variables: empathy, acceptance, congruence
7.3. Functional Behavior Analysis: vertical – horizontal
7.4. Function of symptoms and change motivation
7.5. Symptoms as solution
8. Life interview

9. Self- awareness, and therapeutic reflexion

10. Supervision

11. Homework assignments:
– One of five case documentations
– One initial interview – documented, no transcription;
– One functional behaviour analysis
– One transcript of a relaxation induction

Second Seminar – Chengdu, 2016
23th of September-29th of September

1. Mental disorders and specific intervention I

1.2. Functional Behavioral Analysis – continuation and consolidation I

1.3. Interview- and communication skills – continuation and consolidation I

1.4. Specific Disorders and Intervention
1.4.1. Depression and Affective Disorder
1.4.2. Panic Disorder and Agoraphobia
1.4.3. Social Phobia and Specific phobias

1.5. Standard Techniques of Intervention in CBT (2)
1.5.1. Exposure Therapy
1.5.2. Stimulus Control and operant techniques
1.5.3. Cognitive Techniques I

1.6. Self-awareness and therapeutic reflexion
1.7. Mindfulness based stress reduction

1.8. Life interview

1.9. Supervision

– Homework assignment
– one transcript of an interview coded – process categories
– one self-modification program – documented
– one transcript of a rational dispute – identifying irrational beliefs

Third Seminar – Beijing, 2017
14th of April – 21th of April
2. Mental disorders and specific intervention II

2.2. Functional Behavioral Analysis – continuation and consolidation II

2.3. Interview- and communication skills – continuation and consolidation II

2.4. Specific Disorders and Intervention
2.4.1. Somatoform Disorders
2.4.2. Eating Disorders
2.4.3. PTSD
2.4.4. Schizophrenia

2.5. Standard Techniques of Intervention in CBT (3)
2.5.1. Assertiveness Training
2.5.2. Cognitive techniques II
2.6. Conflicts in CBT- find new solutions

2.7. Life interview

2.8. Self-awareness and therapeutic reflexion

2.9. Supervision

Homework assignment
– video tape of two therapeutic session and /or transcription
– problem analysis

Fourth Seminar- Chengdu, 2017
21th of September-27th of September

3. Mental disorders and specific intervention III

3.2. Functional Behavioral Analysis – continuation and consolidation III

3.3. Interview- and communication skills – continuation and consolidation III

3.4. Specific Disorders and Intervention
3.4.1. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
3.4.2. Borderline Personality Disorder and Dialectical Behavior Therapy
3.4.3. Other Personality Disorders
3.4.4. Sexuality and Sexual Dysfunction

3.5. Standard Techniques of Intervention in CBT (4)
3.5.1. Orientation towards ressources
3.5.2. Facilitation of positive Experiencing and positive behavior

3.6. Self-awareness and therapeutic reflexion

3.7. Life interview

3.8. Supervision

Homework assignment
– one functional analysis with utilizing symptom and disease gain
– final essay

Fifth Seminar – Nanjing, 2018
13th of April – 20th of April

4. Mental disorders and specific interventions IV

4.2. Functional Behavioral Analysis – continuation and consolidation IV
4.3. Problem analysis – if the therapy does not work

4.4. Interview- and communication skills – continuation and consolidation IV

4.5. Specific Disorders and Intervention
4.5.1. Alcohol and Drug abuse and dependence
4.5.2. CBT with chronically ill patients (e.g. chronic pain)
4.5.3. CBT with cancer patients

4.6. CBT with children
4.6.1. Mental disorders in children and adolescents
4.6.2. CBT with children and their parents

4.7. Standard Techniques of Intervention in CBT (3)
4.7.1. Assertiveness Training
4.7.2. Cognitive Intervention

4.8. Self-awareness and therapeutic reflexion

4.9. Life interview

4.10. Supervision

Curriculum Cognitive Behavior therapy level 2 2019-2021
Advanced German-Chinese training curriculum on Cognitive-Behavior Therapy (CBT)

Cognitive-Behavior Therapy (CBT) level II

Curriculum 2019 – 2020

National Continuous Advanced Training Program – Cognitive Behavioral – Psychotherapy level II
German – Chinese Curriculum of Cognitive – Behavioral – Psychotherapy 2019-2020

Objectives
Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapy is a very effective psychotherapy for outpatient and inpatient treatment of mentally ill patients. Therefore, in recent years, it is worldwide the most applied psychotherapy. To treat patients with CBT therapists need profound theoretical knowledge, analysing of the family background, the function of the symptoms and to understand the belief system of the patient. The aim of CBT is to help the patient to find new solutions for his problems.

The title of the curriculum is adopted to international standards and is The advanced german Chinese training programme in CBT level two

The aim of this advanced German Chinese training programme for Cognitive Behavior Therapy level II is to deepen the state of the art knowledge for using CBT.
This programme include to learn how to train CBT and how to conduct group therapy of CBT.
So the participants will learn more
– about aetiology and differentiation of diagnosis in its relevance for the CBT treatment
– skills in doing CB, to handle different situations with patients.
– Therapy planning
– crisis intervention
– case discussion and life demonstration
– problem analysis in a therapeutical process
– learn to teach CBT
– learn to use group CBT by doing it self
– selfexperience

It will be offered only for Chinese colleagues who are already experienced in using CBT in hospitals or Counselling Centers.
The precondition of Chinese colleagues is to have got the certificate of the training programme in CBT. The second precondition is continuous clinical practice.
A continuous participation of all seminars is obligatory to get the certification of the complete training programme.

Time schedule and organization
The training includes four seminars spread over a time period of two years with a total of 330 hours of seminars, lectures and exercises including homework time. Training language is English and Chinese. The seminars will be conducted by German and Chinese teachers Additionally, German and Chinese lecturers will provide theoretical knowledge, psychotherapeutic skills case work, supervision and self-experience.

Seminar place and organization
The seminars will be held by the brain hospital department of Medical Psychology of Nanjing University and the Department of Psychosomatic disease of the Chengdu West China University and in cooperation with the Clinical Department of the Faculty of Psychology of the Beijing University and the German –Chinese Academy for Psychotherapy e.V.

Requirements and participants tasks
During the training seminars each participant has to
• attend two case supervisions
• prepare 4 excerpts. Each excerpt shall be a three-page literal recording of the therapy with a patient.

The transcripts will be read and commented by the Chinese instructors. The excerpts shall relate to the topics of the seminars. All the homework of the participants has to be done in English or Chinese

Between the seminars participants are supposed
• to do homework assignments and to reflect upon the new knowledge gained and to integrate into their therapeutical work
• attend an intervision group for case discussion in his home town/ or province.

Between the 3th and 4th seminar, each participant has to write a final essay, which may be
a documentation of the therapeutical process of a specific case over the course of several sessions including the reflection of the therapists’ own process during the therapy.

Studybook
During the training program, participants document their work, participation on the seminar, homeworks, self-experience, participation in intervision groups in a study-book, which will be signed by the responsible German or Chinese teachers.

Self- experience Group self –experience and single sessions
The participants learn in the group-selfexperience how to lead such a group and get the ability to reflect about himself. So every seminar will have one day of group therapy (4x)
Furthermore Self-experience will be intensified in individual sessions.
Additionally, each participant has to write a personal emotional biography. The guideline for this biography will be given by the teachers.

Study material

Study material will include

• chapters of relevant books
• summaries of chapters and articles
• study material of the teachers (power-point slides; presentations)

Material will be translated into Chinese language.

First Seminar
Nanjing, 2019

13th of May – 18th of May2019
Depression, Agora Phobia, Panic Disorders, Avoidence disorder, theoretical state of the art, treating skills
Group Therapy in CBT learning by doing
How to teach CBT
Selfexperience
Second Seminar
Chengdu, 2019

21th of September- 26th of September
Personal disorders, Social phobia, working problems and stressmanagement
theoretical state of the art, treating skills
Group Therapy in CBT learning by doing
How to teach CBT
Self-Experience
Third Seminar
Nanjing 2020

22 th of May – 26 th of May
Trauma, sexual abuse, sexual disorders
theoretical state of the art, treating skills
Group Therapy in CBT learning by doing
How to teach CBT
Self-Experience
Fourth Seminar
Chengdu, 2020

19th of September-24th of September
Obsession , psychosis
theoretical state of the art, treating skills
Group Therapy in CBT learning by doing
How to teach CBT
Self-Experience

Due to the global COVID 19 pandemic situation we had to change the training programme Cognitive Behavior Therapy level 2. The following two online seminars have taken place. The seminars were rated as very good by the participants. The training programme will end with a 6 day presence seminar in China.

Level II
3rd Seminar – online
2020 December 2 – 2020 December 4
Time – schedule and agenda –
2019-07-13

Dec 02 Dec 03 Dec 04
09:00 – 12:00 Just some greeting words
Lecture 1
Obsessive-
Compulsive
Disorder (OCD)
Thomas Fydrich

Lecture 2
PTSD & CPTSD
Theoretical Models
and CBT Interventions
创伤后应激障碍
理论模型与CBT干预
Glasenapp

Lecture 3
Group Therapy

Anne Troeskken

12:00 – 13:30 Lunch break Lunch break Lunch break
14:00 – 16:00 Little Groups Chinese teachers Little Groups Chinese teachers Little Groups Chinese teachers
16:00 – 18:00 Chinese and German teachers Chinese and German teachers Chinese and German teachers
18:00-18:30 Debriefing
Chinese and
German Team
Debriefing
Chinese and
German team
Debriefing
Chinese and
German team
18:30-19:00 Dinner Dinner Dinner
19:00–20:00 Evening Lecture Chinese teacher

Advanced German-Chinese training curriculum on Cognitive-Behavior Therapy (CBT)
Level II
4th Seminar – online
2021 April 15 – 2021 April 17
Time – schedule and agenda –
2019-07-13

Apr 15 Apr 16 Apr 17
9:00–12:00 Lecture 1Difficult situation
in Psychotherapy –
How to find
solutions
Thomas Fydrich
Jan Glasnapp
Lecture 2Suicidality-psychotherapeutic
intervention
Tobias Teisman
Lecture 3Sexual disorder
Charlotte Rosbach
12:00–13:30 Lunch break Lunch break Lunch break
14:00–16:00 Little Groups
Chinese teachers
Little Groups
Chinese teachers
Little Groups

Chinese teachers
16:00–18:00 Chinese and German teacher Chinese and German teacher Chinese and German teacher
18:00-18:30 Debriefing Chinese
and German Team
Debriefing Chinese
and German Team
Debriefing Chinese
and German Team
18:30-19:00 Dinner Dinner Dinner
19:00–20:00 Evening Lecture 1
Chinese teacher

Ausbildung in Psychosomatischer Therapie

Training Psychosomatic Integrative Psychoanalytic Therapy Leadership (2017)
3rd German-Chinese Training Course on Psychosomatic Medicine
Shanghai Mental Health Center 2017
Training Psychosomatic Integrative Psychoanlytic Therapy
12-16.September 2017

The third German-chinese Training Course on Psychosomatic Medicine took place from the 12th to the 16th of september 2017 in the SMHC in Shanghai under the leadership of Dr. Chen Jue who is the director of the psychosomatic department there.

Again more participants were applied than we could register and even this time we decided to take these participants that came as a group from different occupational category from one hospital. Again we had again over 20 nurses, that were applied with high engagement.

The schedule of the 5 days was again like last time with the beginning in the morning with a altogether lecture: Psychosomatic inpatient therapy –concept; Pain disorder; Eating disorder; Team; Depression.

Afterwards deeper discussion in the small groups (doctors and psychologists, nurse, art therapy; CMT-group, then the different group activities as described later. In the evening we had again the integration, i.e. the big balint group which was organized in an outer group and an inner circle. This was the finish of each day with 11/2 hour. In this group there was the leader and about 100 pariticipants. This resulted in a high emotional tension and enabled an integration of the whole group. As in the last sessions in these case reports a lot of very topical subjects of the Chinese psychosomatic came to the surface.

The last case showed the 13 years old boy of very reach parents, who collapsed under the pressure to get fit for an American university. He had spent the years 2 to 6 in a boarding kindergarden. He couldn’t cope this separation of the parents during the whole week.

A special highlight in this year were the lectures oft wo teachers from Germany and China who are leading of their professional associations of their country, Prof Dr. J. Kruse (Giessen, Marburg) who is the president of the german psychosomatic association.


Reports from the 4 Groups:

Nurse Group:
Full of motivation and curiosity 19 participants started their training each morning at 8.30h in Shanghai at Mental Health center with a daily morning lecture- quite an unusual week for nurses.
Some of the participants travelled for the first time of their life to another city, mostly by train-because it is not so expensive.
In our group the participants were well mixed:
Some of them had more than 20 or 30 years experience in their profession, working in psychiatric or even psychosomatic wards. One nurse works with eating disorder patients in a very professional manner. Also very young nurses were belonging to the group. We had two young male nurses, both working in psychiatric hospitals. From the beginning the participants were interested in each other and learned from each other.
Very soon we became a group with a confidently working atmosphere and a lot of questions; second thoughts were reflecting. Based on the daily morning lecture we could easily step in the particular topic of our curriculum.

Depression was the topic of the last day. The majority of the group was well educated in this disease and one nurse introduced a professional diary for depressed patients.
Also working with pain patients was familiar to them including a collection of skills how to deal with this patients and their symptoms.Contrary to my expectations only a few members of the group were experienced with the topics Eating disorders and Borderline personality disorders. But when we talked about it they recognized and identified some of their patients.

Beside the contents of the training program every member of the group had been interested in this intensive exchange. An important topic was the meaning of a permanent contact person by a nurse. By our daily work also in small groups they got mixed every time in a different way. (They did like this group working a lot.)
They improved their capacities in introducing their results for the whole group- so they even got more self confidence.
My favorite parts were our role playing games. Although laughing a lot, the group understood very well and I am still astonished that there was no problem to understand. Our common values of all of us were the respect and acceptance of our patients.
So we all spent a concentrated study-week and sometimes I had to remember me that these colleagues came from the other side of the world.


CMT-Group: Andrea Wolf-Aslan
This time there were 22 participants in the CMT (concentrative movement) group, mostly psychiatrists, psychologists and also some nurses, coming from different regions in China. Some of them had already joined our program in the previous years in other working groups. Now they wanted to look at the same features from a new perspective. Everyone was eager to learn and understand more about psychosomatic treatment and the approach of awareness and movement.

I introduced some theoretical background of CMT , but soon we got into the practical part, since movement therapy is, of course, based on the personal experience. So many topics to work on, so many questions to discuss. Since there were so many participants in the group I chose to let them work in small groups or pairs of two most of the time, in order to provide a lot of time for personal experience and exchange. We explored the feeling of connection and disconnection, how to interact with a depressed person and also the value and importance of security and self-expression. A very important topic was the issue of boundaries, not only for the patients, but for the therapists themselves. We also looked at the characteristics of the self image in certain psychosomatic diagnosis, for example eating disorders. We used all kinds of materials, like balls, ropes and o lot more, as symbolic features and possibility to become more aware and able to differentiate.
Every day we had a certain topic, mostly introduced through a morning lecture by Dr. Merkle and one morning by Mrs. Schopf. Those topics, like pain disorders, depression, eating disorders a.s.o. were discussed in the CMT group as well. And then we “translated” the symptoms and their characteristics into practical exercises.
We started every session with a little warmup, becoming aware of our body, senses and emotions; very much liked by the group members. Like the two years before I enjoyed the vividness, the curiosity and the creativity very much. Everybody was eager to learn, very open minded and discussing on a high intellectual level.
So the five days seemed to pass by very fast. The CMT group had to separate, hopefully taking home some important and valueable experiences for themselves and their work. For myself I was very touched by the warm hearted and respectful feedback from my group members, feeling connected and also having learned a lot through working with them.


Arttherapy: Helge Ostertag
The 22 participants came from all over China, with a different and broad professional background: there were psychiatrists, psychologists, a sand-play therapist, a social worker, a music therapist and art therapist s. They all were very interested to learn something about art therapy in general and off course specific about art therapy in psychosomatic medicine. Some participants specifically wanted to learn new ways to get into contact with their patients, because they felt that spoken language was not sufficient to reach some of their patients.
As art therapy is a very practical way to do therapy, my approach with the group was the same: very praxis orientated, so there were many exercises, a lot of self-experience with different topics and materials. After each exercise we took some time to reflect our experiences and to consider what the purpose or the use

of the exercise was. This was followed by giving some theoretical input about the topic of the lesson (e.g. eating disorders) and by examples and pictures from my work with patients (e.g. what patients with eating disorders do in art therapy), so the participants were able to look at those pictures with a deeper understanding.

We started with a simple drawing exercise: Draw three different objects on a sheet of paper. Actually, it was more a training of perception, because after drawing we sorted the pictures by different criteria and thus looking at the same pictures again and again in very different ways. We found similarities and differences between pictures, we searched for dominant aspects and for weak parts in a picture, and we looked for clarity and chaos in the pictures and many other aspects. Training the perception was a task I followed throughout the workshop. When I showed pictures, I involved the participants and their observations by asking questions: What do you see? What is in the focus of the picture? Do you see this little detail? But this was just the first step – our perception of a picture. The second step was, how a picture impressed us, what we thought about it, how we felt about it, what kind of associations a picture evoked.

In these five days of the workshop, looking at pictures, describing pictures, talking about our observations and our perceptions was a heavy focus of the training, but only one part. The other parts were theory (about specific disorders or about psychodynamics) and the most important part: exercises and self-experience. It was very nice to see, how the group opened up from day to day, and how the restraint, some participants had in the beginning, became less and less with each exercise. It was a very vivid and interested group and the participants were eager to explore the different materials as well as the different creative tasks and topics and of course they were all intensively discussing their experiences in the following reflections. As the group was quite big I separated them into small groups of five participants for the reflection of the exercises and it was very interesting to see that it became more vivid and joyful the smaller the audience was.
I very much enjoyed working with the group; they were all involved, deeply interested, asked good questions and gave valuable feedback. I had two very good translators who did a nice job, so it worked all very well.


Doctor’s group: Wolfgang Merkle

The group of doctors and psychologists this time was very big with 30 participants. There were participants from all over China: Fujian, Guizhou, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Hunan, Qhinghai, Xuzhou, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Xiaoshan, Jinan (Shandong Province), Dazu, Chongquin, Henan, Kunming, Tianjing, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, Xi’an, Jingan.
Also this team we had complete groups from the same hospital.

There were a lot of very interesting discussions, case discussions and a deep exchange concerning the developments in China and Germany. Very interesting the fact that at many places in China there are coming up Psychosomatic clinics, especially in internal clinics not only in psychiatry. But there is a lack of educated employees, supervisions and a special education for doctors and nurses. Almost totally is the lack of art therapists and CMT-therapists (concentrative movement therapy).

This therapeutic art therapy facilitate an approach to unconscious conflicts, enable the creativity and the development of binding and emotional enrichment of these poor emotional developments of this patients. Also there is almost no education for CMT.
The last day we had a discussion about the multiple wish of participants to have skype case discussions and to continue in this way the work of the group. In each case there was a wish for an advanced group and we promised to try to establish this workshop in 2019.

The work in the doctors group was so successful also because we had with Wu Chunyan a translator who had a wonderful capacity of simultaneous translation. This was possible because she is not only good in English but also she has deep knowledgement in psychosomatic medicine. Many thanks to her!


Party
Of course also the social part of the training had his place: There was a Party. The german teachers not only gave a song of the Shanghai hymn but they also gave some common songs i.e. from the Beatles.


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Report of Chinese-German Psychosomatic Medicine Training Program
Jue Chen, Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai
Wolfgang Merkle, Hospital zum heiligen Geist, Frankfurt

The third Chinese-German Psychosomatic Medicine Training Program was held in the Shanghai Mental Health Center from September 12, 2017 to September 16, 2017. The project was jointly organized by Shanghai Mental Health Center, the German-Chinese Academy for Psychotherapy(GCAP) and the Chinese Mental Health Association. Prof. Wolfgang Merkle and Dr. Jue Chen are the Principles of this program.
We invited a famous German psychosomatic treatment team of Hospital zum heiligen Geist, a teaching Hospital of Frankfurt University in Germany, to be the faculty of the program, including director Professor Wolfgang Merkle, Nurse-in-chief Miss Gudrun Schopf, CMT psychotherapist Miss Andrea Wolf-Aslan and art therapist Mr. Helge Ostertag.
On the first morning, we held an opening ceremony, a bunch of specialists in psychology attended the ceremony, Yifeng Xu, dean of the Shanghai Mental Health Center said, “Welcome to Shanghai mental health center to attend this training. The training program this year is the largest ever, and it is presented in the form of team work, and I wish everyone will have a good time here and learn useful skills!” Yonggui Yuan, the chairman of the Chinese Mental Health Association said, “We all know that psychosomatic medicine originates from Germany, so it’s our pleasure to learn the most advanced psychosomatic treatment concept from the team leading by professor Merkle. Wish the project a great success!” Professor Wolfgang Merkle, the German President of DCAP said, “Shanghai is a warm family to me and it’s a good platform for us to communicate and exchange ideas. Psychosomatic medicine is a very interesting topic, it combines our body and spiritual world, and it has a great impact on clinical departments. I hope this project is beneficial for you, so that we can provide more professional treatment for the patients.” All the students were inspired by the great pioneers.
After the ceremony, the students were devided into 4 groups: doctor group, nurse group, CMT therapist group and art therapist group. The daily training contained four parts: morning lecture, evening speech, group discussion and Balint group discussion. In the morning lecture, we learned the basic theory of psychosomatic medicine and the common diseases in psychosomatic ward, e.g. depression, pain disorder, eating disorder, PTSD, etc. Then we formed different groups, i.e. doctor group, nurse group, CMT group and art therapy group, which have different focus, to talk more about the theoretical issues and then have the specific related skill training of the day. In the first evening, Prof Yonggui Yuan showed us the future of Chinese psychosomatic medicine. And in the second evening, Prof Johannes Kruse gave us a wonderful speech, introducing the origin and the development of Psychosomatic in Germany. At the end of the day, we came back together to have a case discussion in the form of Balint Group led by Prof. Wolfgang Merkle. All of the participants joined it very actively, which made the whole group integrate the pieces of the patient and form the complete picture of the patient. The participants were surprised by such beautiful and effective way to understand the patient.
There were 97 participants in all, including psychiatrists, physicians, nurses, psychotherapists, art therapists and social workers, who work in psychosomatic or psychological department of mental health centers and general hospitals in different areas of national China. Most students showed up very early every day so they can exchange the learning content of the previous day and looking for opportunities to talk and learn from German experts. In the small group, all the students participated in the discussion actively. Participants said,” After attending CMT group, I deeply understood the connection between body and soul through the way of movement; Art therapy is just like a colorful sky for me; We all call Prof. Merkle as Merkle Father, because he knows that we are hungry for knowledge and he teaches us a lot.”
The feedback questionnaire shows that 99% of the participants thought that the content of this project has involved the latest development, achievements or the problems need to be solved urgently in the field, 100% of the students thought this program was very rewarding, especially in expanding horizons and improving skills, 100% of the students satisfied with the content. All of the participants appealed strongly expressed that they are excepting the advanced training, and looking forward to seeing all of the German teachers again in Shanghai.

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FirstGerman-Chinese Psychosomatic Inpatient Introduction
Report from the first psychosomatic inpatient training in China: The Program started after wonderful preparation by Chen, Jue, M.D.& Ph D. Chief of Psychosomatic Unit, vice-director of Clinical Psychology Department of the Shanghai Mental Health Center and Xu, Yong M.D. Deputy Director, Department of Training and Education…

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Ausbildung in Psychoanalytischer Therapie

Curriculum Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Beginners (2011-2013)
Aim of the training program
The program is designed for Chinese physicians and psychologists practising in a clinical field who wish to obtain theoretical and practical competence in psychoanalytic oriented (psychodynamic) psychotherapy in the German-Chinese training program.

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Curriculum Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Advanced (2011-2013)
Aim of the training program
The program is designed for Chinese physicians and psychologists who already got a basic training in psychodynamic psychotherapy. They should practise psychotherapy in a clinical field. The aim of the program is to obtain further theoretical and practical competence in
psychoanalytic oriented (psychodynamic) psychotherapy by the German-Chinese training program. The aim is also to obtain special knowledge and practice in psychodynamic group psychotherapy.

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Ausbildung in Systemischer Familientherapie

National Advanced Training Program in Systemic Family Therapy
Im Herbst 2015 startet der 7. Ausbildungskurs in Systemischer Familientherapie mit einem erweiterten Curriculum. Zum ersten Mal wird eine Woche Gruppenselbsterfahrung zusätzlich zu den Einzelselbsterfahrungssitzungen Teil der Ausbildung sein. Somit umfasst die Ausbildung zukünftig 5 Seminare. Sie findet an der Tongji Universität, Shanghai statt, Kooperationspartner ist das hsi, Heidelberg (Helm Stirlin Institut). Bisher haben ca. 300 TeilnehmerInnen – Ärzte, Psychologen und TeilnehmerInnen aus verwandten Berufen – die Ausbildung mit einem Zertifikat abgeschlossen. Seit Herbst 2014 läuft ein 2-jähriger Ausbildungskurs in Supervision (siehe Curriculum). Dies ist ein Angebot für Absolventinnen der Systemischen Ausbildung. Diese Ausbildung ist ein Pilotprojekt, als Reaktion auf eine sehr große Nachfrage nach weiterführenden Angeboten zur Erweiterung und Vertiefung professioneller Kompetenz. Weiterhin sind Workshops zu speziellen Themen in Planung. Der erste Workshop ist geplant für Oktober 2015. Thema: Developing couples skills: an advanced training course for therapeutic professionals in couples therapy… (Stand Juli 2015)
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Projekte der Universität Freiburg

Projekte der Abteilung für Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie an der Uni Freiburg
Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Freiburg
(Prof. Dr. med. Michael Wirsching, Prof. Dr. med. Kurt Fritzsche)
Current Projects:
1. BMBF: Developping of transcultural research studies in psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy in China and Vietnam
2. DAAD: Masterdegree program in psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy in Shanghai/China
3. Sino-German Center for the promotion of research in Beijing: Patients with somatoform disorders/functional symptoms in China
4. Development of Balint groups in China in cooperation with the German Balint Society
5. Beijing Cancer Hospital: Communication skills training for medical doctors.

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Sino-German Conference on Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy in China
Mental and psychosomatic disorders such as depression, anxiety, and somatoform disorders have become the most frequent non-lethal health problems in China. This makes early diagnosis and effective treatment exceedingly important.
The department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy of the University Medical Center Freiburg (Prof. Wirsching, Prof. Fritzsche) is highly experienced not only in treating mental and psychosomatic disorders, but also in qualifying medical professionals through an internationally approved training curriculum. Prior research studies in cooperation with Chinese partners have shown a number of important cultural similarities and differences in, among others, doctor-patient-communication, diagnosis, and treatment approaches. Integration of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) may provide important new impulses, for instance, for research development in the treatment of somatoform disorders and pain.

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Projekt DCAPP, gefördert vom BMBF

Einblicke in die Psychosomatische Medizin in China

Einblicke in die Psychosomatische Medizin in China

Besuch zweier deutscher Nachwuchswissenschaftler auf der psychosomatischen Station am Tongji-Hospital

Sino-German Alumni Network in Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy (DCAPP)

DCHAN Newsletter , September 2019

Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie in China

Deutsch-Chinesisches Alumni-Netzwerk in der Psychosomatischen Medizin und Psychotherapie
Deutsch-Chinesisches Alumni-Netzwerk in der Psychosomatischen Medizin und Psychotherapie
Projektakronym: DCAPP

Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China

Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China, in Chinesisch verfasst
中德身体取向心理治疗连续培训项目介绍该项目是由上海市精神卫生中心、德国身体动力分析协会(DGK)和德中心理治疗研究院(DCAP)联合举办。本次项目邀请到德国身体动力分析协会主席Ulrich Sollmann教授主讲。
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Ausbildung in Körperpsychotherapie

Body-Psychotherapy: Integration of body and mind in psychotherapy and mental health
The training curriculum „Body-Psychotherapy: Integration of body and mind in psychotherapy and mental health“ is a two-years-program being organized by the Shanghai Mental Health Center and the German-Chinese Academy of Psychotherapy. Its main aspects are:
• Body-Psychotherapy
• Body-Work: energy and personality
• Body-language
• Indication
The program is designed for Chinese physicians, psychologists, social-workers and mental health workers, practising in a clinical field who wish to obtain theoretical and practical competence in a psychodynamic orientated body-psychotherapy in the German-Chinese training program.
For more details please have a look at the curriculum-PDF.
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