Characteristics of therapists working with people experiencing psychosis: A nation-wide survey in Poland

R. Styła, L. Grzesiuk, H. Suszek, K. Krawczyk and M. Rutkowska

Psychosis, 2015, vol. 7, issue 3, 265-268

Abstract: Objective: To characterise how psychotherapy with people who expereince psychosis is conducted in Poland, and by whom.Method: A nation-wide online survey and paper and pencil enquiry comprised of 40 questions and addressed mainly to the members of psychological, psychiatric and psychotherapeutic associations was administered to a sample of 1196 people who provide psychotherapy.Results: Of the 1196 therapists surveyed, 30.8% reported working with people experiencing psychosis. Therapists working with psychotic people were more likely than the rest of the therapists to have graduated in medicine, worked in a psychiatric hospital or public counselling centre and trained in psychoanalytic or psychodynamic psychotherapy. No difference in gender and age or years of experience was found between the two groups.Conclusions: The percentage of therapists working with psychotic patients in Poland is similar to the international average, but lower than in Austria. Psychoanalytic and psychodynamic psychotherapists play an important role in the psychological treatment of people experiencing psychosis in Poland.

Date: 2015
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