A5002499404- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Pain Management and Placebo Effect
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Traumatic Brain Injury Research
- Psychology, Coaching, and Therapy
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Family Support in Illness
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Sociology and Education Studies
- Treatment of Major Depression
- Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
- Empathy and Medical Education
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Sleep and Wakefulness Research
- Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
- Sleep and related disorders
- Health disparities and outcomes
- German legal, social, and political studies
- Homelessness and Social Issues
Kiel University
2023-2025
Medizinische Hochschule Brandenburg Theodor Fontane
2022-2024
Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
2018-2022
Philipps University of Marburg
2011-2021
Criminological Research Institute of Lower Saxony
2013
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
2010-2011
Psychotherapists around the world are facing an unprecedented situation with outbreak of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). To combat rapid spread virus, direct contact others has to be avoided when possible. Therefore, remote psychotherapy provides a valuable option continue mental health care during COVID-19 pandemic. The present study investigated fear psychotherapists become infected in personal and assessed how provision changed due whether there were differences regard country...
Salivary alpha-amylase activity (sAA) and plasma noradrenaline (NA) concentrations are often considered to be surrogate markers of sympathetic activation in response stress. However, despite accumulating evidence for a close association between sAA other indicators activity, reliability generality this relation remains unclear. We employed the Trier Social Stress Test (TSST) order directly compare responses NA psychological stress healthy volunteers (n = 23). The TSST significantly increased...
Most people adapt to bereavement over time. For a minority, the grief persists and may lead prolonged disorder (PGD). Identifying grievers at risk of PGD enable specific prevention measures. The present study examined extent which subjective unexpectedness death predicted outcomes above beyond known sociodemographic objective loss-related variables in sample drawn from population-representative investigation. In our ( n = 2,531), 811 participants (M age 55.1 ± 17.8 years, 59.2% women) had...
Dysfunctional expectations are considered to be core features of various mental disorders. The aim the study was develop Depressive Expectations Scale (DES) as a depression-specific measure for assessment dysfunctional expectations. Whereas previous research primarily focused on general cognitions and attitudes, DES assesses 25 future-directed (originally 75 items) which situation-specific falsifiable.To evaluate psychometric properties DES, scale completed by 175 participants with without...
Side effects play a key role in patients' failure to take antidepressants. There is evidence that verbal suggestions and informed consent elicit expectations can turn trigger the occurrence of side effects. Prior experience or learning mechanisms are also assumed contribute development effects, although their has not been thoroughly investigated. In this study, we examined whether an antidepressant's be learned via Pavlovian conditioning. Participants (n = 39) were randomly allocated one two...
Objective: To identify subjective importance, attainability and success of life goals their predictive value for well-being in patients with acquired brain injury. Design: Cross-sectional, descriptive. Setting: Two inpatient neurological rehabilitation centres. Participants: Patients non-progressive disorders. Interventions: Survey using questionnaires. Measures: Life goal characteristics were assessed a questionnaire (GOALS). Subjective (composite score) was measured the Center Epidemic...
Sequelae of acquired brain injury (ABI) require adjustment processes in which survivors must strive to regain subjective well-being (SWB) the face chronic impairment. The current study investigates whether self-concept achievement mediates this process. Thirty-five post-acute patients with ABI were assessed neuropsychologically for performance memory, attention, concept formation and reasoning. Data concerning complaints applied cognition, self-concept, SWB collected. Patients rated their...
The questionnaire study aimed to evaluate the relative contribution of body awareness, subjective symptoms, and anxiety construct somatosensory amplification in both healthy controls (n = 475) patients visiting their general practitioner 236). Regression analysis explained 52.0 percent total variance scale scores. Body awareness was most influential predictor (β 0.489, p < 0.001) when considering all predictors simultaneously. results suggest that dispositional interoceptive focus, as...