Psychiatric day-care hospital in Kaiserslautern
The Kaiserslautern day-care hospital of the Pfalzklinikum offers 20 spaces.
The psychiatric day-care hospital is a day-care facility for mentally ill people aged 18 or above. Treatment takes place during the day only. The patients spend the evening, the night and the weekend at home in their familiar surroundings. Thus, we ensure an intense therapeutic support while allowing to maintain family ties and friendships.
Who can be treated in the day-care hospital?
The treatment services offered at the day-care hospital are suitable for a wide range of mental diseases for which an outpatient treatment is not sufficient whereas an inpatient treatment is not – or no longer – required.
Important for the treatment is a regular housing situation and the possibility to independently cover the distance between hospital and residence. Furthermore, patients should be willing to deal with their emotional problems and try to solve them in a therapeutic process. The cost are borne by the health insurance funds.
What treatment services does the day-care hospital offer?
The treatment at the day-care hospital is composed of several modules. It comprises different diagnostic and therapeutic possibilities. A treatment schedule is individually developed and adjusted to the patient’s requirements during his/her stay.
Medical attendance
Special psychiatric and psychological diagnostics, counselling and, if required, pharmacological therapy as well as comprehensive care by the nursing staff. NADA-acupuncture of the ears.
Psychotherapy
Group and individual therapy, theme-centred groups with appendages of schematic and behavioral therapy
Social therapy
Support in orientating yourself in your current life situation. Assistance in looking for further prospects in social, financial and career terms.
Occupational therapy
Free creative crafts or preset structured working with different materials in individual and group projects. The occupational therapy offers the possibility to the patients to (re) discover their own creative and mental potentials which they have lost because of their disease.
Art therapy
For the development of your creative expression possibilities and problem-solving strategies
Light therapy
For the treatment of depressive mood
Relaxation therapy
e.g. muscle relaxation according to Jacobsen, autogenic training and imaginary journeys
Support in coping with every-day life
Here you can improve or refresh your skills in housekeeping (cooking, baking, doing your laundry and so on) as well as your social competences (group training, social/milieu-related organization) and your abilities in the organization of leisure activities (excursions, cultural events).
Physical vitalisation
e.g. gymnastics, yoga, walking, playing with balls
Relatives
Upon your request, joint discussions with your relatives or other persons of reference will take place.
Who is working at the day-care hospital?
There is a multi-professional treatment team consisting of:
• medical specialists
• psychologists
• co-therapists
• social workers
• art- and occupational therapists
• nurses
• employees in the office
Direction of the day-care hospital
Vanessa Biebel, assistant medical director
Brigitte Anderl-Doliwa, nursing director
Dr. med. Andres Fernandez, chief physician
Contact
How can you get admitted to the day-care hospital?
If you are interested in the day-care hospital, do not hesitate to call us. We will schedule a date for an informal consultation. (Please bring along a doctor’s referral and your insurance card.) On that occasion, we can decide together if our facility suits your requirements.
For admission, you need a referral letter. The cost are borne by the health insurance funds.
Information
For more detailed information please directly contact:
Psychiatrische Tagesklinik
Grüner Graben 24
67655 Kaiserslautern
Telephone 0631/36139885
Fax 0631/36139934
Our opening hours:
The day-care hospital is open as follows (excluding public holidays):
Monday to Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. and
Thursday from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.