A stay in hospital? - Not without my child!

Since the end of the 1990s the Westfalische Klinik Lengerich has offered an inpatient psychiatric treatment of an psychiatric ill parent - combined wi th a pedagogic attendance of the child taken along. The following article d escribes our experience in that matter, from a ward concentrated on psychot herapy. In selected examples supposed patterns of interaction - following t he specific diseases are represented from both the psychotherapeutic and th e pedagogic point of view. in practice our plan of treatment and attendance has proved successful for the wellbeing of the patients and their children . Remains to be hoped that - despite difficulties in organisation which wil l have to be overcome - similar offers can be made in regional psychiatric attendance.