SYSTEMIC CONSULTATION IN PROBLEM SYSTEMS INVOLVING ADOLESCENT ACTING-OUT-BEHAVIOR, DELINQUENCY AND VIOLENCE

The article summarizes characteristic interactive patterns in social s ystems concerned with acting-out, deliquent and violent behavior in ad olescents. As a consequence, it develops a multi systems consultation approach. Core features of such an approach are the clarification of s ervice demands and of available ressources, the development of new and sometimes unusual cooperations, positive connotation of distrust and chaos, and an intelligent questioning of the usefulness of ones owen p rofessional activities. At the end the question is raised, whether and in wich ways educators, physicians and psychologists could involve th emselves in political decision processes about media, work and welfare legislation, wich influence their adolescent clients life situation.