[Child and adolescent psychiatry - a panorama]

The child- and adolescent psychiatry has emancipated itself 10 years ago from an additional specialist physician's area to a separate specialist medical domain with a specific curriculum. Associated with this is an irreconcilable interlacing with the psychotherapy of childhood and adolescence. Even if childhood and juvenile psychiatry is always settled within the framework of a biopsychosocial model, psychotherapy is of particular importance. In the following, the psychotherapeutic requirements and ethical issues of the human being are to be formulated according to a view on the new morbidity and the Zeitgeist in which we are working. A scientific legitimation leads to the demarcation of esoteric endeavors and the view into practice leads us from nosology to functionality in the consideration of mental disorders in children and adolescents.