Psychological treatment for children and adolescents
Understand early and provide targeted support
Not every psychological stress requires a Psychotherapy or a psychiatric treatment. Frequently, psychological treatment can provide targeted support to recognize problems early on, strengthen resources, and develop concrete solution strategies.
The focus is on understanding individual difficulties and promoting emotional, social, and cognitive development. Treatment is always adapted to the age, personality, and needs of the child or adolescent.
Understand
The focus is on understanding individual difficulties and promoting emotional, social, and cognitive development.
Age-appropriate guidance
The treatment is always adapted to the age, personality, and needs of the child or adolescent.
Strengthen resources
Psychological treatment can help to identify problems early, strengthen existing resources, and develop concrete strategies for everyday life.
When psychological treatment can be helpful
Psychological treatment supports children, adolescents, and families with current stressors, developmental issues, as well as academic, emotional, or social difficulties.
Attention & Concentration
For concentration and attention problems as well as for follow-up support after a psychological assessment.
Learning & Performance
For learning and performance difficulties, test anxiety, or questions regarding giftedness and development.
Self-esteem & Emotions
For low self-esteem, emotional distress, or difficulties in understanding and regulating emotions.
Social difficulties
For problems in contact with other children and adolescents or recurring social conflicts.
Family & School
For conflicts in the family or school and when concrete everyday solutions are to be developed together.
Stressful life events
For adaptation to stressful life events, such as a parental separation, and for early stabilization.
This is how the treatment can proceed
Different methods are used depending on the child's age. With younger children, work is often done playfully, creatively, or through age-appropriate exercises. Adolescents usually benefit from discussions, reflection exercises, and collaboratively developed strategies. Parents are actively involved in the treatment process, depending on the child's age and the specific issue.
01 · Understand the request
At the beginning, the current situation, the individual difficulties, and the needs of the child or adolescent are assessed together.
02 · Working appropriately for the age group
With younger children, the approach is often playful, creative, or based on age-appropriate exercises. Adolescents usually benefit from conversations and reflection exercises.
03 · Implementing strategies together
Together, concrete strategies for everyday life are developed. Depending on the child's age and the specific issues, parents are actively involved in the treatment process.
You don't need to know yet what kind of support your child needs.
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Methods of psychological treatment
Depending on age, personality, and the issue at hand, different psychological methods are used. The goal is understandable, practical, and individually tailored support.
Work with younger children is often done playfully, creatively, or through age-appropriate exercises.
Adolescents usually benefit from conversations, reflection exercises, and jointly developed strategies.
The treatment provides concrete approaches to solutions and practical strategies for school, family, and daily life.
Psychological interventions, support, and training can be specifically tailored to current issues and individual developmental needs.
Depending on the child's age and the specific issues involved, parents are actively integrated into the treatment process. Viable solutions are developed collaboratively.
Important to know
Not every psychological distress requires psychotherapy or psychiatric treatment. Psychological treatment can begin early and can also take place after a diagnosis or as a supplement to other treatments.
Psychological treatment or psychotherapy?
Although the two areas complement each other, they pursue different goals.
Psychological treatment
Focused on current issues, concrete solution approaches, consulting, funding, training, and practical strategies for everyday life.
Psychotherapy
Treats mental illnesses and profound emotional distress, and deals more intensively with causes and backgrounds.
Sensible combination
Both areas can complement each other. The decisive factor is what support the child or adolescent needs in the current situation.
The differences at a glance
- focuses on current issues and concrete solutions
- includes consultation, psychological interventions, promotion, and training
- provides practical strategies for everyday life
- accompanies children and families in developmental or challenging situations
- can occur after diagnostics or as a supplement to other treatments
- treats mental illnesses and profound psychological distress
- deals more intensively with the causes and backgrounds of psychological complaints
- supports long-term changes in experience, behavior, and relationships
- usually takes place over a longer period
Psychological treatment can take place after a diagnosis or as a complement to other treatments. If necessary, psychological treatment, psychotherapy, and child and adolescent psychiatric care are coordinated with one another.
Our concern
Our goal is to provide early support for children and adolescents before difficulties become entrenched. Together with families, we develop individual solutions, strengthen existing resources, and promote healthy emotional, social, and academic development. We work in an interdisciplinary manner, optimally coordinating psychological treatment, psychotherapy, and, when necessary, child and adolescent psychiatric care.
Our goal is to support children and adolescents early on, before difficulties become entrenched.
Together with the families, we develop individual solutions, strengthen existing resources, and promote healthy emotional, social, and academic development.
We work in an interdisciplinary manner and optimally coordinate psychological treatment, psychotherapy, and—if necessary—child and adolescent psychiatric care.
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