[The technic of inquiry in inpatient treatment of aggressive children with behavioral disorders]

336 aggressive acts of 16 children (aged 7;7-13;3) were registered and discussed with the patients during a following interview. At this they were asked for their causal attributions, their evaluations of the interventions by the staff as well as their thinking of non-aggressive alternatives. Results show that the attribution of the own aggression as following another child's provoking behavior is decreasing during therapy, whereas the ability to think in non-aggressive alternatives has increased. A comparison of improving patients with less improving patients points out that during improving therapies in the beginning children criticize the staff's interventions more often than the less improving ones do. At the end of therapy this relation is turning the other way round.