[The Treatment of Infants and Toddlers with their Parents in an Outpatient Unit for Infant Psychiatry]. / Die Behandlung von Säuglingen und Kleinkindern mit ihren Eltern in einer kinderpsychiatrischen Spezialsprechstunde.

ABSTRACT

The Treatment of Infants and Toddlers with their Parents in an Outpatient Unit for Infant Psychiatry This article presents an integrative treatment model for infants and toddlers between zero to three years and their parents by integrating different complementary psychotherapeutic perspectives. Between 2012 and 2014 a total of 214 children between zero and three years have been treated, the diagnostic and process data of 53 % (N = 113) of the children were evaluable. The parents have been consulted in the beginning, at the end and six months post-treatment with different questionnaires concerning distress of the children and of the parents as well as regarding the social and the emotional behavior of the toddlers. The psychotherapists filled in different instruments at the beginning and at the end of the treatment. Our research demonstrates that a clearly conceptualized intervention has a measurable and persistent positive effect on the symptoms of the children, on the parent-child-relationship and on the wellbeing of the parents.