QuQuK Institute

Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics | Bremen-East Hospital

The QuQuK Institute works for qualification and quality assurance in child and adolescent psychiatry.

It offers advanced training courses and seminars for employees in the social and healthcare sectors, specializing in child and adolescent psychiatry and child and youth welfare. These training programs are recognized and certified nationwide by professional associations.

In recent years, the situation of children of mentally ill parents has been increasingly brought into focus, and services for children, young people, and the whole family have been developed. This allows children and their mentally ill parents to increasingly emerge from the shadows.

This workshop will examine the very young, girls and boys, and young people with and without a refugee background from various perspectives. We will focus on children who live with their parents or elsewhere.

In our work we experience that mentally ill parents are more than their illness: they have resources and live their lives with their children – and they may be limited in their parenting ability for periods of time or even longer.

As professionals, we ask ourselves: What is still bearable? Where do children show their distress and overwhelm, and where their strength and resilience? How can children, with professional support, manage to live in their families and develop well?

Approximately 3 million children and adolescents in Germany grow up with, among other things, the fear of becoming ill themselves, develop feelings of guilt and shame, and often feel isolated, helpless, and angry. To make these children visible, the "Network of Children of Mentally Ill Parents" was founded.

The network aims to optimize the cooperation between the systems of "child and youth welfare", "child and adolescent psychiatry" and "adult psychiatry" in order to provide constructive and sustainable support to affected children and parents.

With this conference, we want to provide you with professional insights, present different perspectives, and showcase successful collaborations.

The conference is aimed at professionals in daycare centers, educational support services, schools, outpatient and inpatient services of child, adolescent and adult psychiatry and social pediatrics, independent health and healing professionals, and professionals in social services for young people.

Secretariat: Silke Poolke-Heß
Telephone: (0421) 408-2719
Fax: (0421) 408-2717
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