[Comments on some aspects of pediatric and adolescent psychiatry]

Child and adolescent psychiatry of today is closely connected with adult psychiatry, pediatrics, developmental psychology and education. It finds itself in multipolar tension-fields and is in need of a constant bridging towards the allied professions, especially child care. Besides biological and psychological factors, historical, social and cultural influences deeply affect diagnostic and therapeutic procedures concerning disturbed children and adolescents. In the field of research there is a lack of structures and means.