THE TERMINATION OF INPATIENT TREATMENT AS CRISIS AND DEVELOPMENTAL TASK

Especially in the inpatient treatment of adolescents the phase of term ination is decisive, because important issues and developmental tasks are re-experienced by the young patient. Therefore a sufficient relief From symptoms cannot serve as the main criterium for termination. Ins tead the ego-development with all its aspects and the improvement of t he capacity for emotional relationship is most: important. The paper d iscusses some central dynamic factors of the termination phase, Most o f these processes are also induced inside the therapeutic team thus le ading also to a kind of separation crisis In the team.