A cognitive behavior therapy with a maladapted youngster in the closed department of a youth training home

This contribution deals with the question of whether the association of psy chotherapeutic treatment as a complement to the standard pedagogical method s used by educators with maladapted youngsters, in a closed department of a training home, is more effective than simply the implementation of the ped agogical concept. The psychotherapeutic intervention was so arranged to inf luence the pedagogical concept as little as possible. The psychotherapeutic intervention was based on learn theoretic axioms of cognitive theories. Th e intervention did not bring the expected success. Difficulties arose above all in the transfer of the directives from the therapeutical setting to th e everyday. Special difficulties were present in the realisation of the cog nitive techniques. This leaves the question open how reasonable this is wit h maladapted youngsters. In addition the integration of the psychotherapeut ic intervention closer with the pedagogical concept appears unavoidable. Ei ther through using group therapies or by the increased involvement of the e ducator in the therapeutical treatment.