Interventionen für Kinder und Jugendliche, die in Pflegefamilien oder Jugendhilfeeinrichtungen leben – ein systematisches Review

Children or adolescents living in foster or institutional care received so far insufficient con¬sideration in therapy intervention research. At the same time, they are a high-risk group for developing mental illness. The aim of this systematic review is to record evidence-based psy¬chotherapeutic interventions of the past 15 years on a national and international level that ad¬dress children and young people living in foster care and youth welfare institutions and their mental health. Through a systematic literature research, interventions for the target group de¬scribed were identified and analyzed about their specificity and evidence. From 170 publica¬tions, ten interventions with sufficient evidence could be included in the present analysis. The result of the current literature research shows that further specialized psychiatric-psychother¬apeutic interventions for children in foster care and youth welfare institutions are necessary. Regarding the transferability to the German youth welfare and health system, cross-system and interdisciplinary cooperation is needed. Hereafter further research is required to estab¬lish specific and evidence-based intervention approaches.