A5036007810- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Natural Language Processing Techniques
- Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Second Language Acquisition and Learning
- Text Readability and Simplification
- Reading and Literacy Development
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Sleep and related disorders
- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Speech and dialogue systems
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Psychiatric care and mental health services
- Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies
- Identity, Memory, and Therapy
University of Münster
2018-2025
Objective: The efficacy of trauma-focused cognitive behaviour therapy (tf-CBT) has been well established in randomized controlled trials (RCTs). More research is needed to demonstrate the effectiveness tf-CBT routine clinical care settings.Method: Eighty-five patients (68 female) with a primary diagnosis PTSD received at two German outpatient centres (Münster and Mannheim) between 2014 2016. Treatment was delivered mainly by therapists training treatment duration based on symptom course....
Although evidence-based interventions for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are highly effective, on average about 20% of patients drop out treatment. Despite considerable research investigating PTSD treatment dropout in randomized controlled trials (RCTs), findings naturalistic settings remain sparse. Therefore, the present study investigated frequency and predictors trauma-focused routine clinical care. The sample included n = 195 adults with diagnosed PTSD, receiving trauma-focused,...
Sudden gains, defined as large and stable improvements in symptom severity during psychological treatment, have consistently been found to be associated with better outcomes across treatments diagnoses. Yet, insights on coherent predictors of sudden gains emotional changes around post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are lacking. We aimed at replicating a measure intraindividual variability predictor for testing its independence from change treatment. Furthermore, we expected emotions guilt,...
Background: Sudden gains, defined as large and stable improvements of psychopathological symptoms, are a ubiquitous phenomenon in psychotherapy. They have been shown to occur across several clinical contexts be associated with better short-term long-term treatment outcome. However, the approach sudden gains has criticized for its tautological character: included computation outcomes, ultimately resulting circular conclusion. Furthermore, some authors criticize merely being random fluctuations.
Many patients with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) suffer from sleep problems, leading to impairments in social functioning and quality of life. Refugees are at high risk for problems due stressful life circumstances a PTSD prevalence. However, limited data on the frequency refugees diagnosed exist. This study examined their associations symptoms PTSD. Additionally, we investigated contribution Participants (N = 70) were different countries origin currently living Germany. All...
Abstract The present study investigated pronoun resolution strategies in French native speakers and German-speaking learners of French. German differ antecedent preferences ambiguous constructions such as postman hit the pirate before he went home : while shows a N2-preference, N1-preference. This difference is explained by effects exposure to an unambiguous alternative construction referring N1 that exists French, but not (Hemforth et al. 2010, Language specific anaphor resolution: Exposure...