- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Breastfeeding Practices and Influences
- Infant Health and Development
- Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions
- Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Psychoanalysis and Social Critique
- Family Support in Illness
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Psychology, Coaching, and Therapy
- Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse
- Psychiatric care and mental health services
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Mind wandering and attention
- Grit, Self-Efficacy, and Motivation
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Emotions and Moral Behavior
- Health and Medical Studies
- Pregnancy and Medication Impact
- Infant Development and Preterm Care
- Sexual function and dysfunction studies
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
2015-2024
Heidelberg University
2010-2020
Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie des Kindes- und Jugendalters
2019
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
2018
University Hospital Heidelberg
1998-2017
Heidelberg University
2006-2013
Gold Skin Care Center
2013
Klinik für Psychosomatik
2005-2013
Psychiatric Medical Center
2007
Harvard University
2007
The study presents data on the 3-month prevalences of postpartum anxiety disorders (PAD) and depressive (PDD) their comorbidity in a German community sample. Associations with sociodemographic variables previous history psychopathology were analysed.Data gathered longitudinal over first 3 months postpartum. In two-stage screening procedure, population-based representative sample 1024 women was assessed for symptoms depression using DSM-IV-based instruments.The estimated rates DSM-IV 11.1%...
The critical importance of positive emotions for classroom functioning is well established and teachers' learners' trait-based joy during class has been shown to covary. This interpreted as evidence emotional contagion across teachers learners. However, no research date seems have explored in-situ processes contagion, thus the social dynamic emotion transmission instruction poorly understood. In this study, we aim explore one fundamental mechanism proposed underlie namely facial mimicry. We...
The association between maternal depression and adverse outcomes in children is well established. Similar links have been found for childhood abuse. One proposed pathway of risk transmission reduced emotional availability. Our aim was to investigate whether sensitive parenting impaired mothers with remission, among these abuse has an additional impact.The mother-child interaction 188 dyads assessed during a play situation using the Emotional Availability Scales, which measure overall...
Testing assumptions proposed by Frenzel's reciprocal model of teacher emotions (e.g., Frenzel, 2014), this study explored relations between teachers' appraisals concerning the attainment and importance their teaching goals, emotions. Specifically, we addressed goals high student performance, motivation, discipline, high-quality teacher-student relationship three key discrete emotions, namely, enjoyment, anger, anxiety, during teaching. We had 244 secondary school teachers (70.1% female)...
Background This study investigated whether postpartum anxiety disorder is associated to altered patterns of infant as well maternal engagement in a Face-to-Face-Still-Face interaction (FFSF). Sampling and methods n = 39 women with DSM-IV 48 healthy mothers were videotaped during FFSF their (M 4.1 months). Results Infants the clinical group showed significantly less positive play episode than infants controls. result depended on sex: male controls demonstrated more males anxious mothers....
There is growing evidence that even milder forms of maternal stress or anxiety during pregnancy affect the fetus causing possible long-term consequences for infant and child development. The mechanisms through which prenatal may unborn are not yet entirely clarified. Due to limited self-regulatory skills after birth, infants depend on sensitive behavior their parents regulate affective states physiological arousal. Dyadic regulation has been linked various developmental patterns up...
Empirical Basis of the Questionnaire for Crying, Feeding and Sleeping The an infant, constructed based on theory factor analysis, is assessed internal consistency, inter-correlations, its relation to a behaviour diary. A clinical non-clinical sample are compared. in total 704 infants younger than one year consists different subsamples. To test differences between with questionnaire, data 134 brought outpatient unit parents their toddlers matched used. principal components analysis results...
Maternal bonding has been described as the quality of affective tie from a mother to her infant. This early bond's mental components and its longitudinal impact on child outcome have markedly understudied. Although most researchers assume impaired maternal negative development, there is lack prospective studies evaluating this hypothesis. Since health problems may negatively affect both it still be determined whether unique contribution behavior over above psychopathology. We examined...
Objective: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, psychosocial well-being of families and parents worldwide has been impaired. As part a larger online survey, we analyzed maternal depressive symptoms perceived stress. Method: 666 mothers from Germany with young children (mostly aged 0–3 years) filled out Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) Perceived Stress (PSS) at two time points during pandemic (T1: summer/fall 2020; T2: early spring 2021). We (1) calculated prevalence rates risk for...