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Psychotherapy in ukraine, problems and prospects
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 April 2020
Abstract
The psychotherapeutic care in Ukraine is carried out in structure specialized psychiatric, psychoneurological and somatic hospitals and polyclinics of public health services. Since independence, Ukraine still has inefficient public health care system, with its unbalanced structure of services, especially in mental health care. In 2008 parameters of mental illness and disturbances of behavior was 243,3 per 100 thousand population and in comparison with 1990 decreased per 2,5%. Maximal parameters of mental illness and disturbances of behavior in 1995 consisted 263,1 per 100 thousand population. In structure of parameters of mental illness and disturbances of behavior, in 2008 (72,7 % or 176,1 per 100 thousand population) prevailed nonpsychotic. The basic organizational unit of the psychotherapeutic care is the cabinet of psychotherapy, which common number on 1.01.2009 year was 223, from them at the psychiatric network 134 (61 %), at the somatic - 89 (that makes about 39 %). The psychotherapeutic care is carried out within the limits of medical and psychological model. Thus since 1997 the speciality medical psychology and a staff of the doctor-psychologist is entered. From now on in a medical network medical psychologists with medical (85 person) and psychological (315 person) base education in parallel work. The psychotherapeutic network requires immediate expansion, especially in somatic treatment-and-prophylactic hospitals and polyclinics. The staff could be taken from psychiatrists after reduction psychiatric beds which would pass a training for a new profession on corresponding faculties and chairs of psychotherapy of postgraduate education organizations.
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- P03-154
- Information
- European Psychiatry , Volume 26 , Issue S2: Abstracts of the 19th European Congress of Psychiatry , March 2011 , pp. 1323
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- Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2011
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