Psychotherapy in childhood and adolescence

As all treatments, psychotherapy is also confronted with the demands of evidence-based treatment. Even if be cause of methodical rea sons it is disputable whether every form of psychotherapy is apt for such an evidence-based verification, the patient has nonetheless the right to get a treatment which with the high est possible probability will prove to be helpful. In the case of children and adolescents this is even more important, be cause they can be less able than adults to check the in dication of psychotherapy. In this contribution the state of the research is re viewed considering the example of some comprehensive questions and then we examine several specific forms of child and adolescent psychotherapy in more detail. With in the scope of this re view only the central exponents of some of the different forms of psychotherapy can be presented.