In family interviews with 77 families migrated from Turkey, reasons for the low rate of attendance in psychiatric institutions were investigated. The reasons that came up were a preference for intra-family solutions in cases of behavior disorders as well as a lack of information, but not a preponderance of traditional magical approaches. A comparison of families attending a mothertongue outpatient service with non-attendants failed to demonstrate more intra-family resources in the latter. Families proposed to spread information via ethnic communities and to establish mothertongue facilities. Since the beginning of such a service a systematic increase in attendance rates was recorded.

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