[Changes in Tasks and Job Characteristics in Psychiatric-Psychotherapeutic Inpatient Treatment in Germany - Description of Relevant Progresses since the Commencement of the German "Psychiatry Staff Ordinance" in 1990 - Focusing Psychiatric-Psychotherapeutic Inpatient Intensive Care].

In Germany, mandatory standards in staff job characteristics concerning inpatient (clinic and day clinic) treatment in psychiatry and psychotherapy were established for the very first time in the year 1990. Those job characteristics, concerning the several groups of professionals in German psychiatric-psychotherapeutic hospitals and departments underwent significant changes causing issues of law, professional and socio-cultural development since then. Besides general structurally changes, the present article focuses more particularly on the field of inpatient psychiatric intensive care therapy.