Children should be carefree, cheerful and relaxed as much as possible. Of course they are still highly dependent on their environment, but if they respond with love and attention to their unique behavior and feelings, a child can be an optimal child. That can change if a child gets sick or is otherwise hindered. When everything is no longer self-evident. When their future takes on a different color or things temporarily change perspective. Then it comes down to it, because children can quickly feel unsafe. Especially when they end up in an adult-directed world: a world of hospitals, medical treatment and care.

This largely also applies to young people. The difference with children is that they have an even stronger desire to be independent. They are more resistant to adults, also in order to discover and shape their own identity. But they too can experience insecurity – despite their sometimes apparent independence – when they are removed from their familiar living environment.

Friendly environment

That is why De Kinderkliniek focuses on the child and the youngster. In a friendly environment in which it is not only about their clinical picture, but about the total child and the young person. With all its medical and possibly psychological and social problems. An approach that has its origins in the holism that assumes, among other things, that a person is more than the sum of all his ‘parts’.