Stability of outcome in children and adolescent psychoanalysis at 5 year follow-up

In the Heidelberg study about psychoanalytic therapy with children and adol escents 133 cases have been studied in a naturalistic design. Up to now res ults were published on the basis of assessments of experts only. This follo w-up study has investigated the stability of therapy outcomes from the pers pectives of different raters. For that outcome has been rated five years af ter the end of treatment by experts, parents and children themselves. Good outcomes have been stabile and have shown even after five years. Single var iables showed further improvement in the time of follow-up, for example the social communicative impairment,with parents. Thus the high rate of succes sful longterm psychoanalytic therapies with children and adolescents could be confirmed from different rater perspectives.