The Karl-Jaspers-Klinik at a glance
Hospital for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
The Karl-Jaspers-Klinik (KJK) is a hospital for psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychosomatics. With its university clinic for psychiatry and psychotherapy, the KJK belongs to the University Medicine Oldenburg. The hospital is certified according to DIN ISO 9001. The Karl Jaspers Clinic has 695 beds and around 1,100 employees. Medical services are provided in 6 specialist clinics, 5 day clinics and 10 outpatient institutes:
Clinics
The University Hospital for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy has four wards. The Director of the University Hospital is also the Chair of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the European Medical School Oldenburg-Groningen (EMS) at the Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg.
Patients with schizophrenic disorders, manic-depressive disorders, personality disorders, acute stress reactions and suicidal tendencies are treated. Another focus of the clinic is the treatment of depressive disorders.
The Clinic for Addiction Medicine and Psychotherapy at the Karl Jaspers Clinic offers a differentiated range of services from the entire spectrum of addiction medicine and psycho-therapeutic treatment.
In middle and old age, the departure from professional life, the loss of loved ones, physical illnesses or disturbances in memory and retentiveness lead to crises in which the patient is unable to cope. Geriatric Psychiatry adapts to these special features.
Patients who are accommodated in accordance with § 63 of the German Criminal Code (StGB) are persons who have been charged with a criminal offense that they committed in a state of diminished or suspended culpability. The reason for this is usually a mental illness resulting in impaired impulse control. The basis for the placement is the Lower Saxony Act on the Execution of Measures of Control (Niedersächsisches Maßregelvollzugsgesetz).
The Juvenile Forensics Clinic, which opened in 2016, treats adolescent and adolescent patients who are placed (exclusively) by the court under the Juvenile Court Act. The aim of the treatment is to resocialize the young people and to give them the opportunity for therapy, schooling and training in an educational setting.
The Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy in Westerstede was opened in 2017 as a further location of the Karl-Jaspers-Klinik Bad Zwischenahn. 40 treatment places are available in the clinic, which is operated in cooperation with the German Armed Forces Hospital, for patients with psychosomatic illnesses.
The KJK has five day clinics for partial inpatient treatment: one day clinic on the clinic premises, the others in Westerstede, Delmenhorst, Cloppenburg and Brake.
Outpatient services
Treatment is primarily provided for seriously and chronically ill people who have already received inpatient psychiatric treatment and/or for whom an inpatient stay can be avoided or shortened.
- Outpatient Clinic for Emotional-Instable Personality Disorder / DBT Outpatient Clinic / ADHD Outpatient Clinic
- Outpatient clinic for neural developmental disorder and autism spectrum disorder
- Depression outpatient clinic
- Forensic Institute Outpatient Clinic (FIA)
- Geriatric psychiatry Institute Outpatient Clinic (GIA)
- Crisis Outpatient Clinic
- Mother and child outpatient clinic
- OEG Trauma Outpatient Clinic
- Psychiatric Institute Outpatient Clinic (PIA)
- Addiction medicine outpatient clinic (SIA)
