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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 mastertheses 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, socialpsychological 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. s 84 e
