Den barnpsykiatriska kuratorns arbete i praktiken - en intervjustudie

Abstract: The purpose of this study was to examine the work of counselors in child psychiatry. More specifically the focus was to investigate how they go about their work and how they themselves describe it. Six counselors working in child psychiatry in Malmö were interviewed about their work on basis of two fictive cases. The analysis was based on psychosocial theory. The main results showed that the counselors found it essential to include the whole family in working with children and adolescents and that treatment could not be carried out without a good relation between counselor and patient. A further find was that counselors were eclectic in their work, mixing methods from different psychotherapeutic theories.