[The contribution of social work to psychosomatic rehabilitation in social insurance].

Psychosomatic rehabilitation conducted by the social insurance system aims at improvement or restitution of the patient's impaired competence of leading a regular social life and in particular of taking part in the working process. Psychoanalytically based in-patient psychotherapy is focussed on the patient's psychosocial conflict constellations and tries to enable him to cope with his daily social tasks in a satisfying and self-reliant way. In the process of psychosomatic treatment the social worker has an important function in the comprehensive treatment plan due to his expert knowledge and counselling competence. In coordination with the treatment team the social worker makes a genuine contribution in examining and diagnosing the patient, motivating him/her, working out a treatment scheme, realising the treatment process, completing the treatment and arranging for further social and psychotherapeutic care.