[Psychological-therapeutic activities in a facility for vocational rehabilitation--experiences and findings from a questionnaire].

Results of a questionnaire survey on the psychological services available at the vocational retraining centres in West Germany, together with the authors' long years of experience as rehabilitation psychologists in vocational retraining centres, show that psychological-therapeutical work in vocational rehabilitation has gained increased importance. Attention is drawn to the existing cooperation and role conflicts, with a simultaneously developing consolidation and acceptance of psychological competence of service within the rehabilitation centres. In order to cope with the psychological problems of rehabilitation faced at present and in the future, there must be a demand for strengthened stream-lining of the accompaniment of the vocational concept of qualification, for institutional endeavours regarding innovation and further training, as well as the putting into practice of cooperative organization, and of interdisciplinary and general exchange of experience, which has long been called for during the studies of the psychology of rehabilitation. Practical experience confirms the urgency of multiprofessional team- and case-supervision for effective therapeutical plans of action and controls.