Psychiatric Care Award

Honoring deserving people

Psychiatric care award: honoring deserving individuals

The strengthening and further development of psychiatric care are key issues of our time. Professional nursing faces many challenges that need to be accepted and shaped. By awarding the joint honorary prize for psychiatric nursing, the Academic Society for Psychiatric Nursing (AFG Psych Pflege), the Federal Initiative for Outpatient Psychiatric Nursing (BAPP) and the German Society for Psychiatric Nursing (DFPP) would like to recognize people who think innovatively, launch creative ideas or initiate new concepts for action. The interaction between science and practice, the development of new professional fields and the establishment of pioneering concepts are necessary in order to help shape modern psychiatric care as a self-determined professional group.

According to the rules of procedure of the nursing award, people should be honored who illuminate and work on new areas in psychiatric nursing and thus expand our specific knowledge.  In addition, people whose work enables humanistic and non-coercive care in psychiatric institutions. The jury would also like to focus on projects that strengthen the rights of those affected or promote work with relatives. Outstanding commitment to professional policy that improves and consolidates the position of nursing is also to be recognized.

The next Honorary Award for Psychiatric Nursing will be presented at the joint national conference of the DFPP and BAPP on June 22-23, 2023 in Münster. We would be delighted if you could submit suggestions for a possible award winner. We ask for an informal, written justification.

Proposals can be submitted until March 31, 2023 to the e-mail: pflegepreis@psychiatrische-pflege.net be submitted.

For the preparatory group:

Stefanie Lutz-Scheidt, Advisory Board Member of BAPP

Jacob Helbeck, Member of the DFPP Board of Directors

Christian Burr, Co-President AFG Psych Care

Pictures of past award winners

Further information on the previous prizewinners can be found here