[A brief psychotherapeutic synergistic approach in child and adolescent psychiatry]

The controversy between the concepts of family therapy and systemic therapy is one issue to design a synergetic concept of brief therapy in the psychiatric treatment of children and adolescents. Some principles of the radical-constructivism, systemic theory an the psychology of narratives will be discussed and related to concepts of solution-oriented brief therapy. A case example demonstrates the perspectives of this approach in the ambulant psychiatric treatment.