When the mother dies, the father goes to prison or other horrific things happen, children suffer in their own way. Family therapist Tita Kern explains how best to support them – and why a favorite animal can help.
Interview by
Kathrin Aldenhoff
The grandma who doesn’t want to live anymore; a father who kills the mother; a serious accident that they observed: the children and young people with whom Tita Kern and her team work at the Aetas Children’s Foundation have suffered severe blows of fate. Kern is a psychotraumatologist and systemic family therapist and explains why some children become mentally ill after such an event and others do not.