[New AWMF guidelines for medicolegal assessment of mental and psychosomatic disorders]

The guidelines, which were first published in 2012, were fundamentally revised by a panel of experts from 9 medical and psychological societies and published on the website of the Association of the Scientific Medical Societies in Germany in December 2019 (AWMF registration number 051-029). The guidelines contribute to interdisciplinary quality assurance when assessing applicants for insurance or other compensation benefits who claim psychological or psychosomatic illnesses with resulting functional disorders. The guidelines are divided into 3 separate parts: part I describes specific aspects of the expert examination, part II describes the criteria for assessing occupational performance capacity in terms of different legal fields and part III deals with questions of causality in cases of claimed posttraumatic mental disorders.