Inpatient health care of children and adolescents with psychological disorders in Germany

Employing official statistics from the year 1997 the present article analys es inpatient treatment of children and adolescents with psychological disor ders in all 16 German Bundeslaendler. Sixty per cent of the children and ad olescents who are referred to and treated in a German clinic for psychologi cal disorders on the basis of a psychiatric diagnosis are not given profess ionally adequate treatment. Furthermore, evidence is presented documenting inpatient treatment of children only 0 to 12 months of age in clinics throu ghout Germany on the basis of psychiatric diagnoses. A new measure is intro duced for future planning of inpatient health care for children and adolesc ents with psychological disorders in Germany.