[Adjustment disorders with developmental risk in children after inpatient treatment]

The relatively broad spectrum of symptoms in child psychiatry (disturbances of behaviour and of anxiety and others) was examined in order to find smaller diagnostic groups. Two selected groups of probands of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University Hospital for Children in Jena were analysed. This analysis was made by recording journals of treatment and a questionnaire. Both groups differed significantly in 33 out of 128 characteristics. The following factor analysis resulted in 10 anxiety- and non-anxiety-syndromes leading back to basic disturbances of affect, psychomotoricity and thinking as well as to exogenous variables like social surroundings and conditions in varieties in upbringing and education. A proof and reliable classification is not possible because of individually and qualitatively different symptoms. The results of the study show the necessity of an effective and improved dispensary care.