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BRIGITTE SCHIGL — NOAH A. ARTNER
Within this university our Department of Psychotherapy and biopsychosocial
Health focuses in its courses and research on psychosocial interventions. The
Department offers university level courses and seminars that specialize in
interpersonal skills for professionals who work with people. These courses
range from counselling, supervision & coaching to certificates for various
psychotherapeutic disciplines and methods. The background theory is focusing
on individuals in their bio-psycho-social entity.
EMPIRICAL STUDIES AND MASTER-THESES
The postgraduate course in Supervision and Coaching is theoretically built
on the “Integrative Theory”. This approach is based on the anthropological
understanding of humans as a physical body, a soul and a mind living within
a continuum of past, present and future and their social and ecological
environment.
The supervision-course itself was established in 2000. Since then 77 persons
within 8 courses have graduated until now. They have published 62 master¬
theses and 15 academic project works. These empirical research-studies have
been conducted by qualitative and quantitative methods. The most frequently
applied methods are the qualitative ones. Almost a third of the thesis and
especially the academic project works are theory-linked case studies.
The core topics of the master-thesis are pressure at work, gender, job-burn
out, effects, side effects & risks of supervision; the theoretical works are dealing
with Integrative Theory and its supervision methods or philosophical, social¬
psychological and ethical questions. The fields in which research on supervision
was placed are the administration/economic sector, the psycho-social and
educational sector. In the administration/economic sector the research focuses
on teams & organizations, executive coaching & counselling and organisational
development.
The psycho-social and educational sector focuses on research fields like
hospital, psychiatry, care work, kindergarten & school and different counselling
institutions like a crisis hotline for example.
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