[Resource diagnosis with children]

Traditionally the task of diagnosis in psychotherapy with children is the description of the disturbed behavior and the analysis of its causes. But the deficit-oriented perspective leads as a rule to a neglection of the clients', positive potentials, whose inquiry and therapeutic use for the success of therapy is however, following new findings of therapeutic effect research, of eminent significance. By this article a concept of resource diagnosis is introduced that demonstrates by several examples from the practice different methods of resource analysis with children based on a resource taxonomy. Finally a detailed case presentation illustrates the enlarged possibilities which are offered by the combined application of deficit and resource analytic results for therapy planning and intervention.