[The Structural Reform of The Psychotherapy Guidelines in Germany].

Objectives: Our study investigates how psychotherapists implement and assess the newly introduced elements of the structural reform of the psychotherapy guideline in Germany.

Methods: We asked psychotherapists about their experiences with the structural reform in semi-structured interviews. The data was analysed using qualitative content analysis.

[Psychotherapeutic appointments given by Associations of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians in 2019 : An analysis differentiated by appointment type and region].

Background: One provision of the Care Provision Strengthening Act in Germany was that psychotherapeutic appointments (psychotherapeutic consultation, acute care, and probatory sessions) are now arranged through the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians organizations. We examined how many appointments were requested and given in 2019, differentiated by appointment type and by city state versus areal state organizations.

Methods: The frequency of requests and appointments made in 2019 were collected from the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians organizations in Germany using a questionnaire.

[Outpatient Psychotherapy Before and After the Reform of the Psychotherapy Directive of 2017: Data from Practices with and without Psycho-Oncologic Specialty].

Background: The reform of the German psychotherapy directive in 2017 resulted in several changes for non-hospital-based psychotherapists. We examined whether patients received psychotherapy following their initial consultation more frequently after the reform than before.

Methods: Using records from psychotherapy practices in a retrospective cohort study, we investigated the frequency of a psychotherapy after the patients' initial consultation.

[Is the number of psychotherapy sessions for patients with depression associated with the severity of the disease?].

Objective: This study investigated how the number of sessions for outpatient psychodynamic psychotherapy among patients with depressive disorders is associated with the severity of the disease.

Methods: From a random sample of 1000 applications for reimbursement of outpatient psychodynamic psychotherapy, we selected those in which a diagnosis of depression with a severity rating (ICD-10 F32 or F33) was coded. The association of levels of depression severity (mild, moderate, and severe) with the number of sessions requested and the number of sessions endorsed by the reviewer was investigated using Spearman's rank correlation.

["It's Left a Bitter Taste" Psychotherapists' Perspectives on the Abolition of the German Assessment Procedure for Outpatient Psychotherapy].

Background And Research Question: In 2019, the abolition and replacement of the present German assessment procedure for outpatient psychotherapy was resolved and adopted into law. This study examined what psychotherapists think about the new plan.

Methods: We conducted semi-guided interviews with psychotherapists about their experience and opinion of the current psychotherapeutic care situation in Germany.

Pre-Sleep Arousal Scale (PSAS) and the Time Monitoring Behavior-10 scale (TMB-10) in good sleepers and patients with insomnia.

Objectives: Pre-sleep arousal and time monitoring behavior are two putative factors involved in the development and maintenance of insomnia. We investigate two questionnaires measuring these factors in good sleepers and patients with insomnia.

Participants: A sample of 96 patients with non-organic insomnia according to ICD-10 and 208 good sleepers completed the Pre-Sleep Arousal Scale (PSAS), the Time Monitoring Behavior-10 scale (TMB-10), the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)-II, the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), the Insomnia Severity Index (ISI) and the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI).