[The stigmatizing assessment syndrome]

The problematic nature of the description of children and adolescents with deviating behavior becomes evident by the short representation of the pathways of three patients. The critical discussion of the "usual" way to speak during psychiatric every-day-life uncovers patterns of speech--inducing on the one side according to their own dynamics the labeling process and on the other side a fixation of the team in a "stigmatisierendes Beurteilungssyndrom" (rating-syndrome).