Child and adolescent psychiatry. If the development is not 'normal', the importance of movement is even more evident. Usually, during the first years of life, the development of children and adolescents with psychosocial and psychiatric problems already have been impaired. Since these are the years in which movement plays such an important role, it seems even more essential to include psychomotor therapy in the general treatment program. In order to restore the development, the accent of treatment will be different for each individual child or adolescent.
Adolescent psychiatry is more diverse than child psychiatry.
In this presentation treatment will not be further discussed. What is evident with children and adolescents with psychiatric problems is that it has its impact on the motor development and the way the child or adolescent moves. The motor development can give an indication about the child's experiences with different stimuli. It is possible that a child has been understimulated, but is also possible that there were enough adequate stimuli in the environment, but that the child was unable to profit from it. Children with disturbances in the sensomotor development often show problems in other areas as well and a multi-discipline treatment is necessary.