title: [Guidelines for Trainings in Inter-/Transcultural Competence for Psychotherapists].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The ongoing globalization leads to the fact that intercultural aspects are becoming more important in recent years. Unfortunately, the psychosocial sector in general as well as psychotherapists in particular are not sufficiently trained for those issues. In the German speaking countries so far there were no guidelines for the conceptualization of intercultural trainings for psychotherapists. In the present study guidelines for trainings of inter-/transcultural competence of medical and psychological psychotherapists have been developed.
  
  
  METHODS
  An extensive data base was collected including a systematic international literature research, qualitative expert interviews, a quantitative survey among therapists and 8 focus groups with clients as well as therapists from different cultural backgrounds. The guidelines for trainings were then extracted in a 2-step consensus procedure.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The guidelines define learning objectives which should be achieved in a training. They also describe the structural as well as substantive requirements which should be met in such a training. In addition to knowledge on cultural issues that should be acquired in a training the guidelines put high emphasis on the self reflection of training participants on their own cultural embededness as well as on the aquisition of culturally sensitive skills.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Regarding demographic trends in Germany trainings for intercultural competence should become an obligatory element in the training of psychotherapists. The guidelines represent a high-quality base for the conceptualization as well as the evaluation of such trainings.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The guidelines developed here represent an instrument for the improvement of the training of therapists in Germany in the field of transcultural psychology. In the long term they could contribute to the intercultural opening of the German mental health system and improve the quality of psychotherapeutical treatment of migrants in Germany.
authors: Institut für Psychologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
authors: Ulrike
authors: U
authors: von Lersner
authors: Institut für Medizinische Psychologie, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf.
authors: Kirsten
authors: K
authors: Baschin
authors: Institut für Medizinische Psychologie, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf.
authors: Imke
authors: I
authors: Wormeck
authors: Institut für Medizinische Psychologie, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf.
authors: Mike Oliver
authors: MO
authors: Mösko
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D054521:Cultural Competency; D003469:Culture; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000193:education*; D014171:Transients and Migrants