Counseling centers
Social psychiatric service (SPD)
- German: sozialpsychiatrischer Dienst (SPD)
- Description: provides consultation and advice for people with mental health problems and who are in crisis
Psychiatric outpatient clinics (PIA)
- German: Psychiatrische Institutambulanz (PIA)
- Description: Offers a broad spectrum of counseling, diagnostics and therapy aimed at patients with mental health problems for outpatients.
The Trauma Outpatient Center
- German: Traumaambulanz
- Description: Help and advice for victims of crime.
Crisis services
- German: Krisenberatungsstelle
- Description: supports you in crisis situations.
Psychological Counseling Center
- German: Psychologische Beratungsstelle
- Description: supports you in crisis situations.
Contact and counselling centres for mentally ill people
- German: Kontakt- und Beratungsstellen (KBS) für psychisch kranke Personen
- The services are openly available and include leisure facilities and opportunities to meet people for those affected. (German: Kontakt- und Beratungsstellen)
Forms of housing and care
based on the German version "Betreuungs- und Wohnformen"
Court-appointed (legal) representative
German: Gesetzliche Betreuung
Assisted Living
German: Betreutes Wohnen
Information in German
vocabulary
- Assisted single living/ Assisted single living quarters (betreutes Einzelwohnen): living in their own flat and be admitted to supported individual housing.
- Assisted community living/ Therapeutic communities (Therapeutische Wohngemeinschaft): live in single-person apartments or share a flat with some other persons.
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Assisted apartment living quarters: betreutes Appartmentwohnen
- Individual case workers: Einzelfallhelfer
Daily structure
Based on the German version "Tagesstrukturierende Angebote"
Day centre - for people with mental health problems
German: Tagesstätten für psychisch kranke Personen
You can get support here if you have mental health problems. Or if you have a chronic mental illness. You can spend time together with other people. You can eat, learn and play sport together. Often there is also a garden and a small workshop. (German: Tagesstätte/ Beschäftigungstagesstätte)
Contact and counselling centres for mentally ill people
German: Kontakt- und Beratungsstellen (KBS) für psychisch kranke Personen
The services are openly available and include leisure facilities and opportunities to meet people for those affected. (German: Kontakt- und Beratungsstellen)
Employment and extra-income projects
German: Zuverdienst für psychisch kranke Personen
Often offers in Contact and counselling centre (KBS) and day centres.
Information in german: Zuverdienst
Sheltered Workshops
German: Werkstätte für behinderte (WfbM)
Treatment and crisis intervention
Psychiatric outpatient clinics (PIA)
- German: Psychiatrische Institutambulanz (PIA)
- Description: Offers a broad spectrum of counseling, diagnostics and therapy aimed at patients with mental health problems for outpatients.
The Trauma Outpatient Center
- German: Traumaambulanz
- Description: Help and advice for victims of crime.
Psychiatry
- German: Psychiatrie
- Desription: Inpatient hospital intervention
Psychiatrist
- German: Psychiater
- Descriprion: Medical treatment for mental illness, such as prescribing medication and talking.
Psychotherapy
- German: Psychotherapie
- Descripription: Therapeutic treatment of mental illness
Financial support
based on the German version "Finanzielle Hilfen"
The Disability pension
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If there are no entitlements to a disability pension, there is the option of applying for social assistance ( §§ 41 - 46b SGB XII ). https://www.proarbeit-kreis-of.de/site/assets/files/1170/sgb2-merkblatt-en_ba013347.pdf
The Federal Participation Act
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Handicapped pass
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Degrees of nursing care
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Benefits via the Crime Victims Compensation Act
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German:
Fonds sexueller Missbrauch
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Fonds sexueller Missbrauch ("Sexual Abuse Fund"): https://www.fonds-missbrauch.de (automatic translation)