[Systemic approaches in ambulatory child and adolescent psychiatry]

Systemic therapy is considered a method which is based upon the constructivist development of systemic theories. The effectiveness and efficiency thereof is discussed on the basis of one's own evaluation of the therapy with a reflecting team. Further more conceptional differences are determined between the two social systems child psychiatry and systemic therapy. These preliminaries are the foundation upon which we are able to discuss the status of systemic therapy within child psychiatry in theory as well as in practice.