Early Treatment Centre (FBZ)

-The Heidelberg Early Treatment Centre (FBZ) was conceived as a cooperation project between the General Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Clinics of the Centre for Psychosocial Medicine (ZPM) at the University of Heidelberg and has been implemented as a jointly operated centre in the care landscape for the first time worldwide since 1 November 2003.

It comprises inpatient (open and protected), day-care and outpatient (pre-inpatient and post-inpatient) treatment places and a post-inpatient outreach treatment unit (mobile caregiver system). The Early Treatment Centre is a care unit that is managed both organisationally and conceptually on an interdisciplinary and interdisciplinary basis and ensures the treatment of patients across the various settings under one roof.

-The centre has set itself the goal of covering the difficult developmental phase of adolescence, which has not been sufficiently taken into account in psychiatric care to date, and to ensure that patients between the ages of 14 and 28 receive care based on the latest research. The primary indications for admission are prodromal stages and psychosis-related syndromes, manifest illnesses from the schizophrenic spectrum as well as affective disorders and autism spectrum disorders.