A5088487593- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Infant Health and Development
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Language Development and Disorders
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Infant Development and Preterm Care
- Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Tryptophan and brain disorders
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Social and Cultural Dynamics
- Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
- Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
- Emotions and Moral Behavior
- Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
- Stress Responses and Cortisol
- Treatment of Major Depression
- Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Bochum University of Applied Sciences
2013-2019
University of Münster
2011-2017
University Hospital Münster
2008-2015
Background Major depressive disorder is a serious psychiatric illness with highly variable and heterogeneous clinical course. Due to the lack of consistent data from previous studies, study morphometric changes in major still point research requiring additional studies. The aim presented here was characterize quantify regional gray matter abnormalities large sample clinically well-characterized patients disorder. Methods For this one-hundred thirty two 132 age- gender-matched healthy control...
Parenting behavior has a significant influence on children’s mental health and may contribute to the development of emotional or problems in children. Differences parenting have been related parent personality child temperament, although direction causality is not yet clear. This review seeks provide an overview relation between health, parenting, personality, temperament with special focus interaction effects temperament. Empirical evidence suggested that characteristics both—additively...
Abstract According to the guidelines published by German Society of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics Psychotherapy (2007), regulatory disorders early childhood are characterized a symptom triad, including (a) behavioral symptoms such as excessive crying, sleeping, or feeding problems; (b) disturbed parent–child relationship; (c) parental psychopathology. On basis clinic–referred sample 162 children, we examined whether children with without differed in quality relationship...
Abstract The connections between emotions and social exchange in non‐Western communities remain largely uncharted. I conducted long‐term anthropological fieldwork on the dynamics of depressed mood cycles from 2000 to 2002 Hmong highland villages Province Luang Phabang, Laos. gift commodity exchanges embody diametrically opposed values different configurations. ( tu siab ) emerges as a regulatory device at tension‐laden intersection these opposing spheres exchange. Tu is part bidirectional...
The Parent-Infant Relationship Global Assessment Scale (PIR-GAS) signifies a conceptually relevant development in the multi-axial, developmentally sensitive classification system DC:0-3R for preschool children. However, information about reliability and validity of PIR-GAS is rare. A review available empirical studies suggests that research, ratings can be based on ten-minute videotaped interaction sequence. qualification raters may very heterogeneous across studies.To test whether use still...
An increasing number of empirical studies indicate that infants, toddlers and preschoolers may suffer from non-transient mental illnesses featuring developmental psychopathology. A few innovative child psychiatric approaches have been developed to treat their families, but not yet conceptually presented discussed in the framework different healthcare systems. The organizational clinical experience gained while developing specific be important across disciplines guide future developments...
Multiprofessional Intermittent Psychiatric Treatment of Children in Preschool Age and their Parents a Family Day Clinic. treatment children preschool age (0-6 years) parents is an expanding field research due to its high clinical significance. Specific family psychiatric programs have been developed meet the demands this young group, but are little known. A multiprofessional intermittent approach sensitive developmental context has established Hospital for Infants, Toddlers Preschoolers...
<i>Background:</i> There is a great cultural variety in the social phenomenology of depressed mood. The aim this qualitative study was to compare English and Laotian Hmong semantic pragmatic differences mood assess their relevance for cross-cultural psychiatric research practice. <i>Sampling Method:</i> first author conducted long-term ethnographic fieldwork from 2000 2002 among Laos. Methods included participant observation, interviews focus group language. context...
Specific developmental disorders of speech, language, and motor function in children are associated with a wide range mental health problems. We examined whether preschool-age psychiatric patients specific those without differed the severity emotional behavior In addition, we 2 groups differentially benefited from child family day hospital treatment. Data (N = 78) boys (27 disorder 51 without) were analyzed. Before after treatment, problems rated by parents on German version Child Behavior...