[Inpatient social therapy in adolescents with social behavior disorders]

This paper reports about 5 years experience with the therapy program of the social therapeutical ward/that was specially developed for adolescents with conduct disorders. Special attention is devoted to the problem behavior of the adolescents during the in-patient stay, the treatment, approaches and the future prospects of the adolescents after discharge from the social therapeutical ward. It is shown, that the major intentions of the concept of the social therapeutical ward could be put into practice. However, the analysis also displays problems with the application of this concept, that couldn't be overcome so far: on the one hand girls benefit much less from a stay on the social therapeutical ward than boys, on the other hand it was not possible to reduce the high number of running away from the social therapeutical ward. Finally it is pointed out that the opening of this ward had positive effects on the work of the others wards of the hospital.