Health Care Programs in Slovenia 2025

The Sigmund Freud University was the first to introduce a university education in psychotherapy where academic and practical aspects work hand in hand and complement each other. According to the criteria of the World Health Organization, one psychotherapist per thousand inhabitants is needed.

Psychotherapists of children and adolescents have to acquire multidisciplinary and modality independent basic knowledge and build more specific knowledge related to the children and adolescent psychotherapy modality. Psychotherapists of children and adolescents have to obtain multidisciplinary basic knowledge in physical, emotional, cognitive and social development.

The psychology study programme at the Sigmund Freud University is modern and responds to society's current needs and the individual in it. It considers cultural sciences and offers an alternative to the prevailing approach towards psychology as belonging exclusively to the natural sciences.