Bodily Distress Disorder and Dissociative Disorders are disorders frequently encountered across paediatric specialties. These disorders place high psychosocial, educational and financial strains on children and their families as well as a substantial burden on the health care system with a potential risk for iatrogenic harm to the child due to unnecessary diagnostic evaluations and fruitless treatment attempts leading to increased costs. Predisposing factors include neurodevelopmental disorders and often co-morbidities such as anxiety and depression exist. The current best evidence-based treatment is psychological interventions that involve active participation from both the child and the parents. As early diagnostics and relevant intervention may improve prognosis and potentially decrease the risk of continued persistent and disabling somatic and co-occurring psychiatric symptoms later in life, it is important to address these disorders in young people. Due to the particular characteristics of somatic complaints combined with a high risk of psychiatric co-morbidities and specialised psychological interventions as best evidence-based practice, the diagnostics and treatment should optimally take place in close collaboration between the paediatric/medical setting and child and adolescent psychiatry.