[Methods for the prevention of psychologic developmental disorders within the scope of early childhood education--experiences in an American parent-child center].

Preventive methods for the work with children and parents are presented by the example of a mental health prevention center, where the early development of children is carefully attended on the basis of psychoanalysis and own movement studies. Besides a child-centered setting and multifarious ways of fostering the child's creative expression the emphasis is laid on methods helping to mediate between parents and child in everyday life, as well as methods supporting the child's ego to enable it to cope with future traumatic events.