[Contract oriented help in institutional child rearing and family counseling].

The present paper discusses the concept of Developing Clinical Contracts as a useful means to reflect professional psychosocial help focussing especially on participial forms of help. Asking for help is seen as expression of client expertness. Goals and perspectives of change are based on this client expertness. Contextual frames, premises, and proceedings will be outlined and discussed. Developing Clinical Contracts will be characterised as an effective realisation of concerted action, participially designed to produce desired change fitting into the clients' everyday life. The general attitude could be summarised as some kind of intrepid respecting.