Citation

Hoffmann K. Psychiatr. Prax. 2007; 34(7): 320-324.

Vernacular Title

Spataussiedler und ihre Angehorigen als Patienten im Massregelvollzug.

Affiliation

Zentrum für Psychiatrie Reichenau, Abteilung Forensische Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Reichenau. k.hoffmann@zfp-reichenau.de

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, Georg Thieme Verlag)

DOI

10.1055/s-2007-986193

PMID

17922365

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Young migrants from Russia born in German families are seen as a special risk group for drug and alcohol addiction as well as for criminality. In Russia, they were marginalized as Germans, now in Germany, they are marginalized as Russians--and they repeat in Germany the internal structures of distrust against the police and other government agencies. In prisons and in forensic units, this group of young German-Russians are strongly over represented compared with to share in the general population. In prisons, they are a problem group mainly speaking Russian language, forming mafia like clans and dealing drugs--all this prevents the rehabilitation. METHODS AND RESULTS: In sharp contrast, a forensic department succeeds in integrating these people by a consequent therapeutic community approach with highly frequent group psychotherapy, intensive work, sports, autonomy in cleaning the rooms and individual teaching possibilities in German language and other specialties with a teacher working on the ward. CONCLUSION: Despite published negative experiences, it is well possible to improve the legal and social prognosis of Russian-German migrants by applying a consequent milieu- and psychotherapeutic setting utilizing actively the resources of these patients.

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