Within the setting of external quality management of mother-child rehabilitation centres the short-term and medium-term therapy effects as well as the disease profiles of patients were analysed. This paper is focused on the changing of the main symptoms among the mothers. The patients' state of health is essentially characterized by physical and psychological exhaustion as well as by multimorbidity. It is strongly associated with the mothers' current situation of living. Before intervention the patients' health status was significantly impaired. Directly after the treatment high or very high therapy effects were found. All indicators are still higher after 6 months than they were at the beginning of the treatment. The results of a quasi-control population give evidence that these effects are caused by the treatment. First trends about the children treated show that behaviour problems can be reduced and the quality of life enhanced.