- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Treatment of Major Depression
- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Child Welfare and Adoption
- Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Psychiatric care and mental health services
- Educational and Psychological Assessments
- Family and Disability Support Research
- Psychological Testing and Assessment
- Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
Universität Greifswald
2021-2022
Universitätsmedizin Greifswald
2022
Philipps University of Marburg
2017-2018
Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences
2018
Psychologische Hochschule Berlin
2017
University Medical Center Freiburg
2011
Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie
2011
Recent years have seen major developments in psychotherapy research that suggest the need to address critical methodological issues. These recommendations, developed by an international group of researchers, do not replace those for randomized controlled trials, but rather supplement strategies be taken into account when considering psychological treatments. The limitations traditional taxonomy and assessment methods are outlined, with suggestions consideration staging methods. Active...
Adverse events of psychotherapy have often been neglected in research. In this study, potential adverse group psychotherapies a psychiatric hospital were systematically assessed, explored for predictors and linked to treatment outcome.A naturalistic trial was conducted 180 in-patients attending different psychotherapies. assessed using three measures: (i) weekly reporting unwanted reactions, (ii) mood changes response every single session (iii) premature termination.Different measures weakly...
Depression is a serious disorder in childhood and adolescence. Affected children adolescents show significant impairments various aspects of life. Studies on the effectiveness or efficacy psychotherapy depressed are qualitatively very heterogeneous reveal small effect sizes. There thus need to better tailor approaches these age groups improve outcomes like parent-child relationship, symptomatology, quality To address this gap, we designed modular, individualized treatment program for based...
Chronic depression accounts for roughly a third of all mood disorders. It is particularly disabling disorder, which associated with greater comorbidity and suicidality, more significant impairments in functioning, increased health care utilization than acute major depressive episodes. In the past, chronic was often considered as treatment-resistant since traditional pharmacological psychological treatment approaches show at most modest success. addition, relatively few psychotherapy studies...
The Cognitive Behavioral Analysis of Psychotherapy (CBASP) by James McCullough is the only psychotherapeutic intervention specifically designed for chronic forms depression. CBASP integrates behavioural, cognitive, interpersonal, and psychodynamic theories strategies. approach focuses on problems resulting from maltreatment inhibition maturation in early childhood using therapeutic relationship a personal disciplined way. In addition, other interpersonal strategies such as Significant Other...