Development of guidelines for psychosocial therapies in the treatment of people with severe mental illness in Germany

Background/Objectives: In Germany, psychosocial therapies tend to be covered only cursorily by existing evidence based treatment guidelines. Given that psychosocial interventions constitute a large and essential part of modern multimodal therapy of psychiatric disorders, a comprehensive systematic search for the body of evidence in this field is necessary. A research team located at the Universities of Ulm and Leipzig aimed at filling this gap by developing an evidence based guideline for psychosocial therapies for people with severe mental illness. Methods: The guideline has been developed in accordance with th…