Cures with child

The spa services are specifically designed to meet the needs of stressed parents. During a three-week inpatient stay, you will receive an individualized therapy plan, which may include medical treatments, physiotherapy, exercise, sports, and individual and group psychosocial counseling.

The goal is to activate the healing powers and find out what it will take after the cure to reduce the stresses of everyday life.

There are spa clinics that accept both mothers with their children and fathers with their children in parallel. The personal therapy plans are optimally tailored to the individual needs and contain in each case mother-specific and father-specific offers. Special arrival dates ensure that men's therapy groups and an exchange with other fathers are guaranteed as an important element of the measure.

Some clinics have specialized exclusively in father-child cures. Here, a special focus is on the treatment of male-specific health disorders and a conscious strengthening of the father-child relationship.

If your entire family is overburdened with health problems due to caring for a disabled child or a sick family member, you can also apply for a joint parent-child cure in a family clinic under certain conditions.

You have a right to a cure, if due to the stressful family situation the medical conditions are given. Common symptoms that speak for a cure are, for example:

• Sleep disturbances
• Restlessness and anxiety
.
• States of exhaustion
.
• Depressive moods
• Headaches and backaches
• Joint or respiratory problems
.
• Gastrointestinal disorders
• Heart and circulatory complaints

Also particularly stressful life situations, such as being a single parent, caring for a family member or dealing with a grief situation, can be cause for a cure.

The prerequisite for the application is a medical certificate from a doctor. The certificate should state the medical reasons and the personal stress factors. The preferred clinic, for example with a certain therapy concept or treatment focus, can also be recorded as a recommendation in the medical certificate. Due to the so-called right of choice, health insurance companies must take the patient's wishes for a clinic into account.

The costs for an approved mother-child-cure or father-child-cure - but also for a pure mother-cure or father-cure - are usually borne by the statutory health insurers if a medical certificate is available. The costs for the accompanying child are also covered. You will have to pay a contribution of 10 euros per day yourself. In addition, the travel costs, pocket money and other personal incidental expenses of a cure stay.

If you have private health insurance, please check your contract. Private health insurance companies will only cover the costs of a cure if cures are included in the contract.

Children who cannot be cared for at home during their stay at the spa may accompany their mother or father up to the age of 12. In certain cases, even up to 14 years. They do not have to have any health problems for this. There is no age limit for disabled children. In order for you to be able to take full care of your health, the children are cared for in the spa clinics in an age-appropriate manner. If your child has his or her own illnesses, these can also be treated on site. However, your child will then need its own doctor's certificate . A leave of absence from school for the time of the spa stay is possible.

Help with filling out the application, with the selection of a suitable clinic and the preparations for the cure measure you receive among other things in the numerous advice centers of the Müttergenesungswerk, with the AWO, the Caritas, the Diakonie, the DRK and the Paritätischen Wohlfahrtsverband. The advice and support provided by the Müttergenesungswerk is also aimed at fathers. You can find a counseling center near you using the search function on the internet portal of the Müttergenesungswerk. The counseling is free of charge.