Development and prevention of eating disorders and obesity among children and adolecentsAbstract. Eating disorders (EDs) and obesity constitute important health disorders, which may result in severe and persistent ...
Parental relationship quality as a resource for the early socio-emotional development during the first yearsAbstract. Transition to parenthood is associated with various challenges for the couple's relationship, ...
Autism spectrum disorders and its role in adult psychiatry and psychotherapyAbstract. Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are common with an estimated prevalence well above 1%. Theoretical considerations as well as clinical ...
Sex differences in the relationship between personality and social competences in adultsAbstract. The concept of social competences plays an important role in many areas of psychological acting. Social competences are the basis for socially competent ...
Domestic violence: an important risk factor for child maltreatmentAbstract. Adverse childhood experiences (ACE) such as maltreatment, but also the experience intimate partner violence of parents (domestic violence) ...
Short and long-term efficacy of psychotherapy compared to pharmacological treatment for depressionAbstract. Depression is a worldwide highly prevalent mental disorder. In national and international guidelines, psycho- and ...
Trauma Treatment for Children and AdolescentsAbstract. In the past 30 years, significant advances were made in the research of trauma outcomes and treatment in childhood and adolescence. This article introduces ...
The German Version of the NCCN Distress Thermometer: Validation of a Screening Instrument for Assessment of Psychosocial Distress in Cancer PatientsAbstract: The NCCN Distress-Thermometer is a brief screening tool for cancer patients to assess distress. ...
On the Relevance of Impaired Executive Functions in the Diagnostics of Attention-Deficit/HyperactivityAbstract. Deficits in executive functions, in particular in behavioral inhibition, are at the core of several ...
Preoperational Thinking in Patients with Anxiety or Chronic Back Pain: Two Cross-Sectional Studies to Improve the Understanding of the CBASPAbstract.Background: In the treatment of persistent depressive disorder (...
Prevention in childhood and adolescenceAbstract. Prevention approaches aim to implement scientifically sound concepts, especially in day care centers, schools, at the workplace and in nursing homes. On the basis of ...
Symptom validity in socio-medical assessmentAbstract. It is necessary to critically review diagnoses and health outcomes when assessing people with mental illnesses, who applied for full incapacity benefit, given a ...
Stress and CopingAbstract. In many ways, stressors (such as workloads, critical and traumatizing life events, bullying, mental illness of parents) are problems with different ways of coping. The feeling of stress is ...
Common and Specific Factors of Psychotherapy – a Review of the Current PositionAbstract.Psychotherapy works. However, it is not clear how it works. The controversy about the comparative efficacy of different forms of psychotherapy has generated two ...
Resiliente Kinder, Jugendliche und Erwachsene sind dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass ihnen eine funktionale Adaptation an widrige, oftmals traumatische Umgebungsbedingungen in einer Weise gelingt, so dass langfristig ein kompensiertes, gesundes psychologisches ...
Social Phobia: Assessment, Etiology and InterventionAccording to epidemiological studies, social phobia is one of the most prevalent psychological disorders and results in severe impairment in the quality of life of patients. The current review describes ...
Review of risk factors for cyberbullying victimization in childhood and adolescence and recommendations for preventionAbstract. Cyberbullying leads to serious psychological and social consequences for the victims. ...