For international women’s day: violence-identify violence and trauma heal – Timely psychotherapy helps

Cash-funded psychotherapy in Austria is long overdue

Vienna (OTS) – experience of violence are both women and children are particularly traumatizing long – term mental illnesses are often the result. A rapid and low-threshold access to psychotherapy, therefore, is for violence victims is particularly important.

Many women who experience violence, suffer from shame, or helplessness, and a lot of are not willing to seek help. It would be for the individuals Concerned is particularly important that trauma-associated symptoms to be always clarified also psychotherapy.

It has been proven that violence trauma if left untreated, there is a high risk of disease.
„It is only when the truth is recognized, you can start the recovery of the victim. But much more often the Silence is maintained and the story of the traumatic event emerges not as a narrative but as a Symptom.“ (Judith Herman: The scars of violence)

Also, each of the violence-affected child needs the opportunity to experience in psychotherapy handle and process the hurt. This is also a preventive measure, because the whole family system is often used in a processing process, can stop the repetition of dynamics.

Treatment of mental Suffering without psychotherapy
does not conform to the scientific Standard

Scientifically-based treatment guidelines recommend psychotherapy for mental disorders. This is particularly true in the case of complex trauma-related disorders. Of this standard of care we are located in Austria.

From the „social model“ to the full supply

According to the General social insurance act, every Insured cash funded psychotherapy in the same way, because all the insured persons pay for 27 years, and additional insurance contributions for psychotherapeutic treatment. It is high time that the System is in a single overall contract for psychotherapy to convert and leave all of the Insured person their statutory right to treatment. Since women often have less financial resources, you need all the more urgent Fund-funded psychotherapy.

In the health sector, and most recently by the court of auditors is required, therefore, often more urgent, the quota for Fund-financed psychotherapy cancel hours immediately, and an Austria-wide uniform supply contract for psychotherapy complete medical treatment.

Austrian Federal Association for psychotherapy
Mag. Barbara Zsivkovits
Public relations
01/512 70 90-23
oebvp.zsivkovits@psychotherapie.at
www.psychotherapy.at