["There is no room for more"--case report of a Kurdish adolescent with an eating disorder in relation to family background of political persecution].
Migrant families make up almost 10% of the population of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein and a significant number of patients in the clinics for paediatrics. A casuistry shall show the specific problems and needs in the psychosomatic treatment of foreign children and adolescents, especially the problems of children of political refugees. In the Clinic for Paediatrics at the University of Lübeck a task group for migration and health has been formed which deals with the special needs of these patients. A better and more specific treatment of these patients shall prevent unnecessary long stays at the clinics, false diagnoses, wrong treatments, and the chronification of illnesses in the future.
Bräutigam
Barbara
B
Klinik für Kinder und Jugendmedizin der Medizinischen Universität zu Lübeck, Arbeitsgruppe für Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie, Ratzeburger Allee 160, 23538 Lübeck. barbara.braeutigam@t-online.de
Schnitker
Annette
A
D000293:Adolescent; D000856:Anorexia Nervosa / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000523:psychology*; D005196:Family Therapy; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D011056:Political Systems; D011613:Psychotherapy; D012036:Refugees / Q000523:psychology*; D014175:Translating; D014421:Turkey / Q000208:ethnology