Föderation Deutscher Psychologenvereinigungen

The Föderation Deutscher Psychologenvereinigungen (Federation of German Psychologists' Associations) is a federal umbrella organization formed in 1964 by the merger of two member associations: the Berufsverband Deutscher Psychologinnen und Psychologen e. V. (BDP), the professional association of German psychologists, and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie e. V. (DGPs), the scientific society for psychology. Together, the BDP and DGPs represent roughly 15,000 psychologists active in research, teaching, and practice. The Federation describes itself as the representative of the interests of the psychology profession in Germany. The Federation exists because many international bodies can only be represented by one association per country, and because numerous coordination tasks between science and practice — such as professional guidelines, ethics guidelines, and quality assurance — require a joint national voice. Its legal form is a Gesellschaft bürgerlichen Rechts (GbR), a German civil-law partnership. It is governed by a joint board (Gemeinsamer Vorstand) composed of the presidents of both member associations plus one additional board member from each. The presidency rotates annually: the BDP holds the presidency in even years and the DGPs in odd years. The Federation's tasks include representing German psychologists in European and other international associations; advocating for the interests and affairs of the psychology profession, particularly before government and administrative bodies; promoting mutual exchange; and initiating joint statements and measures such as professional ethics guidelines, education and training measures, quality assurance in psychological diagnostics, and positions directed at government and administrative agencies. Several specialist bodies for psychology are located within the Federation, including the federative ethics guidelines commission; the Diagnostics and Test Board (Diagnostik- und Testkuratorium), which protects the public from inadequate diagnostic procedures and their unqualified use; the person licensing for work-related aptitude assessment under DIN 33430; the continuing education in legal psychology accreditation committee; the National Recognition Commission Europsy (a European-recognized degree in psychology); and the National Recognition Commission Psychotherapy. The Federation is a member of the International Union of Psychological Science (IUPsyS), the European Federation of Psychologists' Associations (EFPA), and the International Test Commission (ITC). Its public-facing website, psychologie.de, also hosts the Leibniz Institute for Psychology (ZPID), the central supra-regional infrastructure institution for psychology in German-speaking countries, which supports the entire scientific workflow from literature search and study planning through data collection and analysis to documentation, archiving, and publication of results, and is committed to Open Science.

The Föderation Deutscher Psychologenvereinigungen was established in 1964 through the merger of the Berufsverband Deutscher Psychologinnen und Psychologen e. V. (BDP) and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie e. V. (DGPs). The merger was necessary because numerous international bodies can only be represented by one association per country, and because there are many coordination tasks between science and practice at the national level, including professional guidelines, ethics guidelines, and quality assurance. The accreditation of continuing education curricula also falls among the Federation's tasks. The Federation's legal form is a Gesellschaft bürgerlichen Rechts (GbR). It is led by a joint board consisting of the presidents of both member associations and one additional board member from each. The presidency rotates annually, with the BDP holding it in even years and the DGPs in odd years. Over time, the Federation has taken on a range of responsibilities and hosted several specialist bodies. These include the federative ethics guidelines commission; the Diagnostics and Test Board (Diagnostik- und Testkuratorium), which protects the public from inadequate diagnostic procedures and their unqualified use; the person licensing for work-related aptitude assessment under DIN 33430; the continuing education in legal psychology accreditation committee; the National Recognition Commission Europsy; and the National Recognition Commission Psychotherapy. The Federation is a member of the International Union of Psychological Science (IUPsyS), the European Federation of Psychologists' Associations (EFPA), and the International Test Commission (ITC). Its website, psychologie.de, also serves as a platform for the Leibniz Institute for Psychology (ZPID), the central supra-regional infrastructure institution for psychology in German-speaking countries, which supports the scientific workflow from literature search and study planning through data collection and analysis to documentation, archiving, and publication, and is committed to Open Science.

• 1964

  The BDP and DGPs merge to form the Föderation Deutscher Psychologenvereinigungen.

Representative of the interests of the psychology profession in Germany, bridging science and practice and speaking for the discipline in international bodies.

• Deutscher Psychologiepreis

  A prize associated with the Federation.

• Diagnostik- und Testkuratorium

  A body to protect the public from inadequate diagnostic procedures and their unqualified use.

• Föderative Richtlinienkommission Ethik

  The federative ethics guidelines commission.

• Personenlizenzierung für berufsbezogene Eignungsbeurteilung nach DIN 33430

  Person licensing for work-related aptitude assessment under DIN 33430.

• Weiterbildung Rechtspsychologie – Akkreditierungsausschuss Rechtspsychologie

  The continuing education in legal psychology accreditation committee.

• Nationale Anerkennungskommission Europsy

  National recognition commission for Europsy, a European-recognized degree in psychology.

• Nationale Anerkennungskommission Psychotherapie

  National recognition commission for psychotherapy.

1. 1Föderative Angebote - psychologie.depsychologie.de
2. 2Über uns - psychologie.depsychologie.de
3. 3Föderation Deutscher Psychologenvereinigungen - Wikipediade.wikipedia.org
4. 4Föderation Deutscher Psychologenvereinigungen - Wikidatawikidata.org