2021 was fast, is it really over? Having minimal social contact seemingly impacts the perception of time... Amidst all the uncertainties and restrictions caused by a very small (submicroscopic, in fact!) agent, the division performed and transformed like never before. First, we had quite a number of SNSF grants running and/or starting (summing up to overall CHF 4.6 mio on current grants), which consequently left their marks in the composition of the group: Karin started her independent SNSF Eccellenza Professorial Fellowship in October at our Faculty and Cosima and Helen finallly set sails to establish themselves at the UZH. Also, Joey finished his postdoc at the division, now being assistant professor at Harvard Medical School! Second, we are again exceeded any previous numbers in teaching, with 39 mastertheses and 5 PhD's. Comfortingly and third, this did not prevent us from publishing overall 46 papers, chapter and books (with a summed-up impact factor of 117.8), with again exceeded anything we have seen and achieved before. Furthermore and fourth, our four postgraduate trainings were fully booked out and running successfully, now serving over 100 students! Also, our Center for Psychotherapy (again!) increased its services by over 30%, with now an six-fold increase since its start a decade ago. All this is as much humbling as wonderful and fully down to a most skilled, clever, hard-working and devoted team. But as the motto of 2021 suggest, there will be a reset. We started 10 years ago as a small group and as the growth of the team and its output as much as the sucess of our Advanced Studies in Psychotherapy and Center for Psychotherapy was wonderful to watch, it also led to the development of careers and units, which have and need their existence and development on their own. So, in order to stay lean, flexible and competitive, the division will be resized in numbers as well as transfer its postgraduate trainings and psychotherapy services in newly developed profit centers in the Faculty of Psychology. Metaphorically, we thus undergo some self-inflicted arboriculture and happily watch our siblings grow... Humbly at your service, JG/March 2022
Antje Frey Nascimento, Nadja Heimgartner, Magdalena Ridder, Dilan Sezer, Mareike Rytz, Judith Alder, Cosima Locher, Berfin Bakis, Karin Hediger, Sarah Bürgler, Yoon Phaik Ooi, Sara Hotz, Joe Kossowsky, Jana Hochreuter, Rainer Bürki, Carmina Grob, Bojana Degen, Lena Greschner, Anja Holder, Marc Inderbinen, Linda Kost, Helen Koechlin, Emma Marchal-Jones, Milena Petignat, Marnie Reed, Rahel Marti, Otto Schmid, Ronan Zimmermann, Clara Bruhin, Cora Wagner and Jens Gaab
The division is now hosts four postgraduate psychotherapy trainings, which complement our contextual, processual and humanistic understanding of psychological interventions. In 2021, all our trainings (CAS in Motivational Interviewing, CAS in Animal-Assisted Therapy, Master of Advanced Studies in Person-centered Psychotherapy and the Master of Advanced Studies in Process-based Psychotherapy) were running on full steam and in several cohorts, summing up to over 100 students. In 2022, the postgraduate training will be reorgaized in the profit center Advances Studies in Psychology as an autonomous unit within the Faculty, so stay tuned…
Magdalena Ridder
The Center for Psychotherapy keeps on growing and we again outperformed last years numbers in appointments, with a mean number of appointments per month of 317, which constitutes yet another increase of 36% from last year. In 2021, our expanded our specialized services for internationals and their families, for students of the University of Basel as well as animal-assisted psychotherapy at the Bäumlihof substantially and our cost-free corona support services to all members of the University of Basel was highly sought after. The mean numbers of appointments per month for 2021 and since the start of the Center for Psychotherapy are shown in the graph below.