The Bielefeld Life Satisfaction Scale (BIFL). An Open-Access Questionnaire for Self-Assessing Domain and Life Satisfaction in Psychotherapy and ResearchAbstract:Background: Life satisfaction is an important outcome measure in ...
Quality Assurance in Research and Application as a Task of the DGPsAbstract: The present paper shows how the German Psychological Society (DGPs) advanced the quality of psychological science in different fields of interest. We order ...
Diagnostics and Didactics for Teaching Handwriting in Heterogeneous Primary School ClassesAbstract:Background: With the ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, many schools face the challenge of ...
Correlations Between Self- and Parental Reports of Anxiety in Elementary School Children as a Function of GenderAbstract:Theoretical background: Anxiety disorders are among the most common mental disorders in childhood. Low agreement ...
Neuropsychological Dementia Assessment: A Survey of the German Network of Memory ClinicsAbstract: Memory clinics are specialized and multidisciplinary centers for the (early) detection of dementia and share common ...
Prevention and Treatment of Substance Use Disorders in Refugees: The PREPARE NetworkAbstract:Aims: Refugee populations are particularly vulnerable to substance use disorders. At the same time, they are less likely ...
SAMT. Validation of a Diagnostic Instrument for Assessing Language Proficiency in Mathematics in Third and Fourth GradersAbstract: Language proficiency has proved to be relevant for mathematical learning (e. g., Bochnik & Ufer, ...
The EF Touch Test Battery for the Assessment of Executive Functions in 3- to 5-Year-Old Children. Adaptation and Psychometric Properties of the German VersionAbstract: Children’s executive functions (EF) play an important role in ...
Diagnosis and Treatment of Patients with Shopping Disorder: A CasuistryAbstract:Background: Although buying-shopping disorder was described as oniomania by Kraepelin (1909) more than 100 years ...
Biomarkers for the diagnosis of cognitive impairment – Recommendations from the Swiss Memory ClinicsAbstract. Molecular cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers of neurodegenerative diseases are now part of the established ...
The Diagnostics of Self-Regulation in Preschool AgeAbstract. Self-regulation is considered an essential requirement for a successful school entry. Nevertheless, there are only few instruments available in German to diagnose ...
Validation of a German Translation of the Centrality of Event Scale (CES-G)Abstract.Background: A growing body of research points to the importance of the perceived centrality of a traumatic event in one′s life story for understanding ...
Nonverbal Correlates of Depressive Disorders: A Pilot StudyAbstract.Background: Psychological disorders are related to changes in nonverbal behaviors. Objective: This pilot study (1) investigated the extent to which characteristics of ...
Considering Age and Length of Exposure to the Environmental Language in Vocabulary Assessment in MultilingualismAbstract. There is a dearth of evaluation approaches for the assessment of expressive vocabulary of multilingual school-...
What Do Kindergarten Educators Know About Diagnostics and Instructional Support?Abstract. Diagnostics and instructional support are key components of professional early education, and are associated with specific ...
Current topics on biomarkers in the forensic and clinical context of alcohol use disordersAbstract.Background: In the contexct of forensic and clinical issues , direct and indirect markers of alcohol use are ...
Test standardization: The clinical examination of a neglected quality criterion in common neuropsychological test proceduresAbstract. The quality of test standardization is of central importance to making ...
Psychotic disorders in ICD-11: the revisionsAbstract. This article provides an overview of the main changes to the chapter ”Schizophrenia or Other Primary Psychotic Disorders” (6A2) from ICD-10 to ICD-11 and ...
Predicting Math and Reading Achievement Using Dynamic TestingAbstract.Introduction: Dynamic testing (DT) tries to gain insights into students' learning potentials by combining measurement and intervention within ...
Diagnosis of specific learning disorders – time to rethinkAbstract. For about one third of all primary school children learning difficulties in acquiring reading, writing, or mathematical competencies are part of their ...