Institute Accreditation Form
Please save your completed accreditation form and send it together with the accompanying
supplemental documents either as printout or as electronic file to:
registration@viktorfrankl.info
or
Viktor Frankl Institut Wien
z.Hd. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Alexander Batthyány
Prinz Eugenstr. 18/12
A - 1040 Wien
Österreich
Institute Accreditation Form
I. General Information
01. Name of Institute / Initiative:
02. Type/ Form of Organisation:
03. Founding Year of Institute:
04. Director / Contact Person:
05. Address:
06. Website & Email-Address:
07. Function and Activities of the Institute:
(Please select from the following list of options):
(a) Educational & Training Institution – If your institute offers courses in Logotherapy for psychologists,
psychotherapists, counsellors, educationalists or other professional groups intended for employment in fields
related to the helping or teaching professions, then it belongs to this category.
(b) Therapy Institution – If your institute includes professional service training in the area of spiritual and
mental health, and/or counselling [Logotherapy and Existential Analysis, alone or in combination with other
types of psychotherapy and/or counselling], then it falls in this category.
(c) Institution for Public Relations and Promotion of LT & EA – If your institution offers public lectures,
organizes congresses and conferences, publishes a newsletter, etc. – in short, if you promote LT & EA in some
fashion, then your institution belongs in this group.
Should your institution fall in more than one category, specify all of the relevant activities, but: please also
specify what the primary function of your institute is. For example, if you belong to an educational institution
that also offers lectures in the public domain, it is possible that your institute’s primary function lies in the
area of educating Logotherapists, and your secondary purpose is in the promotion of Logotherapy in the
public domain.
II. For Educational and Training Institutions
08. How many therapist instructors/ general instructors teach at your institute?
09. Which educational tracts have the therapist instructors/ general instructors covered, both in regards
to their major area and also with respect to their qualification in Logotherapy?
10. Which prerequisites for admission are required for new training candidates at your institute? Should
your institute offer different course tracts and degrees in Logotherapy and Existential Analysis, please
provide the respective admissions criteria here.
11. Please give a short overview of the training curriculum that is offered in your course of studies:
(a) Type of Training (e.g., Psychotherapy, Counselling, Social Work, etc.)
(b) Curricula Details (e.g., Teaching Methods, Number of Semesters and Course Hours, etc.)
12. Does your institute offer supervision in Logotherapy and Existential Analysis?
13. Does your institute offer advanced training courses or refresher courses for credentialed
Logotherapists?
14. Is your institute currently recognized by a government agency, or in the framework of a private or
public institute of accreditation for education and continuing education as a training school? Alternatively,
is your institution registered or is it solely a private institution at this time?
15. Please provide the following documents with your accreditation form:
a. Brief curricula vitae for your instructors.
b. Overview of the type and content of courses offered
c. Content summary (in keywords) of the courses offered.
III. For Therapy and Counselling Institutions
16. How many therapists and/or counsellors are employed by your institute?
17. Which educational tracts have your active therapists/ counsellors completed, both in regards to their
area of specialization and also with respect to their qualification in Logotherapy?
18. Which kind of therapeutic services does your institute offer?
19. Do the therapists and/ or counsellors from your institute collaborate with representatives from other
helping professions (e.g., doctors, psychotherapists, ministers, alternative medicine practitioners)?
20. Are the costs associated with your therapy or counselling services recognized and accepted for
reimbursement from a state health fund or private medical insurance, either entirely or in part?
21. Please provide the following documents with your accreditation form:
Brief resumes of your institute’s therapists and/ or counsellors.
IV. For Institutions in the area of Research and Promotion of LT & EA
22. In what way(s) is your institution active in the area of research and promotion?
23. If your institute organises public lectures or other events: please provide examples of your work, the
frequency of events (e.g., how often in the year) and the average count of participants or attendees.
24. Excluding newsletters and periodicals, does your institution publish books or articles on Logotherapy
and Existential Analysis? If yes, please include an overview of your representative publications from the
last year with this accreditation form.
25. In the case that your institute organizes or has organized conferences, symposia, or study groups:
Please include a brief summary of your representative activities of the last two years in this area, as well
as your plans for the next year.
26. Please list any other initiatives or projects from your institution or members of your organization that
are worthy of mention, either that have already been completed or that are in planning for the coming
years.
27. In the course of your research, does your institute collaborate with experts from outside the field of
Logotherapy?
28. Does your institute have any direct or indirect (e.g., via staff members) connection to an accredited
university or other institute of higher education?
V. Commitment to Uphold Ethical Guidelines
Included with this application form is a copy of the ethical guidelines for the education, research, and
practice of psychotherapy and counselling of the American Psychological Association (APA).1 These
guidelines can also be found at the URL: http://www.apa.org/ethics/code/
Institutes that are not APA members, including those who are not directly in the profession of
Psychotherapy, may willingly and publically commit to uphold the APA code of conduct. Accreditation as
an institute through the Viktor Frankl Institute constitutes a binding commitment to uphold these ethical
guidelines.
However, if your institute or members of your institute are unable to commit to the ethical guidelines of
the APA due to personal, ideological, or other grounds, either in whole or in part, then you may submit
alternative ethical guidelines to the accreditation committee to supplement or substitute the APA
guidelines through your commitment to uphold them.
With this solicitation for accreditation through the Viktor Frankl Institute you declare in the name of your
institute, unless otherwise expressly agreed upon, your institute’s voluntary commitment to uphold the
ethical guidelines and code of conduct of the American Psychological Association (APA).
The APA’s code has been adopted for ease of use amongst applicants not fluent in German. The APA’s
guidelines represent a conservative articulation of the Viktor Frankl Institute’s ethical standards. The
Institute’s guiding document is the ethical guidelines of the Deutschen Dachverbands für Psychotherapie
(DVP e.V.). Institutes seeking accreditation through the Viktor Frankl Institute who anticipate regularly
encountering difficulty with the APA’s articulation by the nature of organisational activities are
encouraged to obtain a copy of the DVP’s guidelines (a German-language document) from the VFI and
substitute this document for the APA guidelines.
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