[The inpatient routine as a therapeutic community: multiprofessional treatment concept within the scope of a child psychiatric day care clinic].

The article will describe a multiprofessional (nurses, social workers, teachers, psychologists, physicians) treatment in a child psychiatric daycare-clinic. In that context the importance of relationship as an equivalence to the "primary motherliness" for early-disturbed children will be stressed. Further the article will focus on the relevance of continuous "post-education" and the broadening of the children's cognitive range by way of this object relation. Also, the article will inform about the uncovering psychotherapy with the children and their parents and about the importance of informations both from the therapists to the team as the other way round. Based on case studies it will be demonstrated how the multiprofessional team functioning as a "whole object" becomes instrumental for patients to work through affective relationships and mechanisms of defence.