Objections to attend outpatient psychosocial facilities in Turkish migrants from the families' point of view

In family interviews with 77 families migrated from Turkey, reasons for the low rate of attendance in psychiatric institutions were investigated. The reasons that came up were a preference for intra-family solutions in cases of behavior disorders as well as a lack of information, but not a preponder ance of traditional magical approaches. A comparison of families attending a mothertongue outpatient service with non-attendants failed to demonstrate more intra-family resources in the latter. Families proposed to spread inf ormation via ethnic communities and to establish mothertongue facilities. S ince the beginning of such a service a systematic increase in attendance ra tes was recorded.