[Waiting periods in Bavarian child rearing, adolescent and family counseling centers--results of a 1988 study].

Child Guidance Clinics are often said to be institutions where clients have to wait for month before they get an appointment. Starting from this critique data on different aspects of waiting-lists in Bavarian Youth and Family Counselling Centers are reported. The data cover waiting-time from registration to first appointment, handling of registrations of clients in crisis-situations, a comparison of waiting-time between the year 1977 and 1988, relationship between size of the district a Counselling Center has to cover and waiting-time etc. Results probably have significance for the Federal Republic of Germany beyond Bavaria.