TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2007//
TI  - Migrants from the former Soviet Union born in German families and their relatives as patients in forensic units
JO  - Psychiatrische Praxis
A1  - Hoffmann, Klaus
SP  - 320
EP  - 324
VL  - 34
IS  - 7
N2  - 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.<p /> <p>Language: de</p>
LA  - de
SN  - 0303-4259
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-2007-986193
ID  - ref1
ER  -