[How do parents and children experience use of video in the out-patient clinical setting?].
Video-based observation and behavioural analysis of parent-child-interactions are being used increasingly in clinical diagnostics, parent-child consultation and psychotherapy or in evaluation processes. A multiplicity of publications point out positive aspects of the use of video techniques and demonstrate the value of video recordings for a structured family interaction assessment. There is as yet a lack of systematic research on family members' subjective view of interactions. One topic this paper focuses on is the use of family interaction videos for short term interventions. In a pilot project a questionnaire survey tries to elicit how families perceive this kind of intervention.