[Therapeutic indications in child psychiatry and involvement of the family].

On the basis of clinical cases in which brief therapeutic parent-child interventions were indicated, the author treats the problem of the involvement of the parents and of the family in child psychiatry. The clinical and dynamic characteristics of the parent-child interaction (that of the mother with her child in particular) as well as the relation with the examiner (positive pre-transference) are studied. Cases of counter-indication of this type of approach are also taken up. The author suggests using these clinical-dynamic criteria and the pre-transference in order to determine which members of the family could lend themselves to the most efficient, and economical preventive and therapeutic approaches.