Intervening, life-threatening or severe chronic physical illnesses and their treatment often mean a life crisis that unsettles the individual in their usual relationships with life and experience and requires a variety of coping and adaptation processes. The psychosocial consequences of physical illnesses and treatment measures in the context of so-called "high-tech" medicine are the subject of consultative and liaison medicine. The range of their interventions is broad and addresses various levels. Basically, they aim to mobilise and optimise individual and collective processing resources.
The field of consultation and liaison medicine combines fundamental practical experience in dealing with patients and research. The topics to be dealt with include psychodiagnostics, crisis intervention, problems of diagnosis communication and patient education, disease processing, mapping of inner body representations, quality of life, communication, field exploration, implementation of adjuvant therapy procedures including accompanying scientific research in the sense of model and process evaluation, assessment of the benefits and consequences of interventions for patients and hospital staff, training and further education of hospital doctors and nursing staff, stress and burnout, documentation, quality assurance, health economic issues.
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Co-operations
exist with the following facilities, among others: Internal Medicine, General and Trauma Surgery, Urology, Anaesthesiology, Gynaecology, Paediatrics, Orthopaedics, ENT, Dermatology, Clinical Genetics, Tumour Centre, Psychiatry, Nursing Management, School of Nursing.
Care in the surgical departments
In the surgical department, we care for patients and their relatives after various surgical procedures and, if necessary, accompany them in the intensive care unit. We pay particular attention to trauma patients, whom we support in the intensive care unit and throughout the course of treatment. In particular, we monitor whether patients develop post-traumatic stress disorder in the further course of their treatment so that we can provide them with psychotherapeutic treatment at an early stage if necessary.
Care in the internal medicine departments
In the internal medicine department, we support patients and their relatives who have problems coping with their illness. The focus here is on patients with chronic inflammatory bowel diseases, severe cardiovascular diseases and lung diseases. We also care for patients who are admitted as inpatients because they are, for example, life-threateningly underweight due to an eating disorder (anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa), have electrolyte imbalances or cardiological disorders. In these cases, we provide co-treatment in two steps: In the first step, the focus is on supporting the stabilisation of patients on the internal medicine ward. An important task here is to promote a holistic understanding of the illness and a psychosomatic motivation for treatment. In a second step, we can transfer patients to our clinic for further treatment in a timely manner if they are sufficiently stabilised and continue to require psychosomatic treatment.
Team
Dipl.-Psych. Norbert Gelse
Elke Kessler
Fachärztin für Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie | Fachärztin für Allgemeinmedizin
Group programme "Moving on in life"
Psychoeducational group intervention for people suffering from cancer
Tumour diseases are often accompanied by physical and psychological stress. The lives of those affected are characterised by discomfort and restrictions in their ability to function at work and in everyday life. The diagnosis is often accompanied by feelings of existential threat to life, powerlessness and loss of control. The disease can impair the quality of life of those affected and is often accompanied by a wide range of psychosocial problems (e.g. in the family, relationships and at work).
With our programme, we want to provide those affected with strategies to deal with these burdens and offer a space to actively deal with the changes caused by the disease.
Components of our programme
- Coping with the illness
- Perspectives
- Relief
- stress management
- Problem-solving skills
- Relaxation through imagination
- Mutual support
Who can take part?
Our offer is aimed at people who have cancer, regardless of the type of tumour, and who would like to actively work towards improving their quality of life. Participation is possible in all phases of the disease. Sufficient mobility is a prerequisite.
The programme is not aimed at relatives of those affected.
The group takes place a total of ten times. During these sessions, the group (max. 10-12 participants) remains in the initial constellation. It would therefore be nice if participants could attend all the appointments.
The costs are covered by statutory health insurance.
Registration, dates & organisational matters
You can find detailed information on registration and the procedure in our programme.
Contact & Appointments
You can reach us by telephone during our office hours:
Monday to Thursday: 8:00 - 11:30 and 14:00 - 15:30
Friday: 08:00 - 11:30 a.m.
