[Patients with Extremist Attitudes During Child and Adolescent Psychiatric and Psychotherapeutic Treatment].

Abstract

Patients with Extremist Attitudes During Child and Adolescent Psychiatric and Psychotherapeutic Treatment Abstract: Extremist attitudes are widespread in the general population. Children and adolescents not only have a significant risk of growing up in families with extremist attitudes and being confronted with extremist content in their social environment, but they also often display the respective attitudes themselves. Extremist attitudes are often rooted in problematic developmental paths and experiences of crisis. They can also be associated with the presence of mental disorders, be exacerbated by them, or trigger them. There is also a risk of their committing crimes and violent acts in connection with extremist attitudes. Based on a selective literature review, this article explains the role child and adolescent psychiatrists and psychotherapists can play in preventing extremism, the complex mechanisms and developmental paths that underlie extremism, and how to address extremism and related risk situations during treatment.