[Description of an adolescent psychiatric inpatients' families]

Detailed analysis of family dynamics of 63 adolescent psychiatric in-patients' families was carried out. The results of this project show indicate relatively more dysfunctional relations of the patient with other family members, especially with both parents. Also the study showed undifferentiated needs of family members' for co-operation and support from the psychiatric institution. Attitudes of resistance and anxiety in relation to psychiatry, which are still typical for Polish families at the end of eighties, were indicated.