The Ministry of Health appoints a team for clinical psychologists without psychologists

The team consists of:

1) Chairman - Waldemar Kraska, Secretary of State in the Ministry of Health;

2) Deputy chairman - Dorota Olczyk, deputy director of the Department of Public Health in the Ministry of Health;

3) members:

a) prof. dr hab. n. med. Piotr Gałecki - head of the Department of Adult Psychiatry, Medical University of Lodz, national consultant in the field of psychiatry,

b) prof. dr hab. n. med. Małgorzata Janas-Kozik - plenipotentiary of the Minister of Health for reform in child and adolescent psychiatry,

c) dr hab. n. soc. Barbara Bętkowska-Korpała - prof. Of the Jagiellonian University, head of the Department of Medical Psychology at the Chair of Psychiatry of the Jagiellonian University Medical College,

d) dr hab. n. soc. Bernadetta Izydorczyk - prof. Of the Jagiellonian University, head of the Department of Crisis Intervention and Psychotherapy, national consultant in the field of clinical psychology,

e) dr hab. n. soc. Małgorzata Lipowska - prof. University of Gdańsk, Department of Psychology and Psychopathology of Development, Faculty of Social Sciences, provincial consultant in the field of clinical psychology for the Pomeranian Province,

f) dr hab. n. med. Anna Mosiołek - treatment director and physician in charge of the branch of the 11th Masovian Specialist Health Center in Pruszków, research and didactic assistant professor at the Psychiatric Clinic of the Medical University of Warsaw,

g) Anna Depukat, MD, PhD - head of the Bureau for the pilotage of the National Mental Health Program,

h) Aleksandra Lewandowska, MD, PhD - head of the 24/7 Psychiatric Unit for Children at the Independent Public Healthcare Center in Łódź, national consultant in the field of child and adolescent psychiatry,

i) Michał Mielimąka, MD, PhD - President of the Board of the Krakow Branch of the Polish Psychiatric Association, assistant professor at the Department of Psychotherapy at the Jagiellonian University,

j) representative of the Department of Medical Personnel Development in the Ministry of Health,

k) a representative of the Department of Treatment in the Ministry of Health;

4) Secretary - representative of the Department of Public Health in the Ministry of Health

The task of the team is to identify new tasks, competences and roles of clinical psychologists in the health care system of psychiatric care and to propose necessary legislative changes in this area and to propose changes in the specialization program in clinical psychology.

Regulation: HERE

Meanwhile, the National Trade Union of Psychologists responded to the Ordinance, pointing out to the Ministry the composition of the Team:

Source: Journal of Laws MZ/TT