Glossary: German, Persian, English
Terms you will come across at the practice and with your health insurer, in three languages and briefly explained.
- Persian کارت بیمه‌ی درمانی
- English health insurance card
- The card issued by your health insurer. Please bring it to the first appointment in each quarter.
- Persian پرونده‌ی الکترونیکی بیمار (ePA)
- English electronic patient record (ePA)
- A digital record set up by your statutory health insurer unless you object. Practices store information such as findings in it. Before details about mental health conditions are stored, you must be told that you can object. For children the parents manage the record; from their 15th birthday young people manage it themselves. Using it is voluntary.
- More at gesund.bund.de (in German)
- Persian گواهی جایگزین
- English replacement certificate
- Replaces the health insurance card if you have forgotten it. Can be requested in your insurer’s app.
- Persian معرفی‌نامه
- English referral
- A doctor’s note sending you to another practice. Not needed for psychotherapy.
- Persian جلسه‌ی مشاوره‌ی اولیه‌ی روان‌درمانی
- English initial psychotherapy consultation
- The first appointment, where we clarify whether psychotherapy makes sense.
- Persian جلسه‌ی آزمایشی
- English trial session
- A session before the actual therapy to clarify diagnosis, goals and whether we work well together.
- Persian گزارش پزشکی پیش از درمان
- English medical report (Konsiliarbericht)
- A short report from a doctor before therapy starts, to rule out physical causes.
- Persian کد ICD (کد تشخیص)
- English ICD code (diagnosis code)
- A code from the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) used to record diagnoses in a standard way, for example on sick notes, referrals, applications or invoices. You can look up what a code means.
- ICD code search at gesund.bund.de (in German)
- Persian درخواست
- English application
- The form used to apply for therapy with the health insurer. The practice helps with it.
- Persian پوشش هزینه
- English cost coverage
- The confirmation from your insurer that it will pay for the therapy.
- How to object (gesund.bund.de, in German)
- Persian درمان کوتاه‌مدت
- English short-term therapy
- Therapy of up to 24 sessions, approved in two steps of twelve sessions each.
- Persian درمان بلندمدت
- English long-term therapy
- Longer therapy that is applied for separately. Sometimes an independent reviewer assesses the application.
- Persian درمان فوری
- English acute treatment
- Short-term help in an acute crisis that can start without a prior application.
- Persian رفتاردرمانی
- English behavioural therapy
- A scientifically recognised psychotherapy approach covered by statutory health insurance. It works on thoughts, feelings and behaviour in everyday life and practises new ways of coping together. This is the approach used at this practice.
- More at gesund.bund.de (in German)
- Persian درمان مبتنی بر پذیرش و تعهد (ACT)
- English Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- An approach from behavioural therapy. It helps people accept difficult thoughts and feelings instead of fighting them, and to act on what matters to them.
- More at the DGKV (in German)
- Persian طرحواره‌درمانی
- English schema therapy
- A further development of behavioural therapy. It works with patterns in how we experience things and relate to others, often formed early in life (“schemas”), and with how they still affect us today.
- More at therapie.de (in German)
- Persian EMDR (حساسیت‌زدایی با حرکات چشم و بازپردازش)
- English EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)
- A method for processing distressing memories, for example after frightening experiences. While thinking of the memory, attention is guided alternately to the left and right, for example with eye movements.
- More at EMDRIA Deutschland (in German)
- Persian سرپرستان قانونی
- English people with parental responsibility
- Parents or other people legally entitled to make decisions for a child.
- Persian افراد نزدیک (مثلاً والدین)
- English caregivers
- People close to the child, such as parents. They can take part in some sessions.
- Persian رازداری حرفه‌ای
- English professional confidentiality
- The legal duty to keep everything discussed confidential.
- Persian مرکز تعیین وقت
- English appointment service
- Arranges appointments for people with statutory insurance, including initial psychotherapy consultations.
- Online appointment service of the 116 117 (in German)
- Persian صندوق بیمه‌ی درمانی دولتی
- English statutory health insurance
- For example AOK, TK or Barmer. Pays for psychotherapy after an application.
- Persian بیمه‌ی درمانی خصوصی
- English private health insurance
- What is covered depends on your individual policy.