Stephanie Schürmann

Publications (3)4.79 Total impact

• Article: [Intellectual abilities in adolescents with former ADHD diagnoses - relationships to current ADHD symptoms, comorbid symptoms, and medication history: results of an 8.5-year follow-up of the Cologne Adaptive Multimodal Treatment Study (CAMT)].

  Stephanie Schürmann, Dieter Breuer, Tanja Wolff Metternich-Kaizman, Manfred Döpfner
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  ABSTRACT: The current analysis was conducted on 16- to 22-year-old persons who had received a multimodal treatment for ADHD during their childhood. The main objective was to analyse the relationships between current intellectual abilities and current ADHD symptoms, comorbid symptoms, and medication history. In an 8.5-year follow-up study current intellectual ability was assessed with the German version of the KAIT (K-TIM). Behavioural problems were rated by parents and the former patients via standardized questionnaires and a semistructured interview. T-tests, Pearson correlations, and multiple regression analyses were then conducted. No significant correlations were found between former treatment with medication and current intellectual abilities. Moreover, no relationship was found between intellectual abilities and current ADHD symptoms as assessed by self- and parent-rating via questionnaires. However, adolescents with lower IQ did show higher scores of problematic performance behavior during the test. Also, a correlation was found between overall clinical judgement and externalizing problem behavior at home and in school. Only small correlations were found between the current residual symptoms and intelligence in adolescent and young adults who had received a diagnosis of ADHD in childhood.
  Zeitschrift für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie und Psychotherapie 01/2012; 40(1):51-60. · 0.99 Impact Factor
• Article: [The Kaufman Test System during adolescence: structure and application of the Kaufman-Test zur Intelligenzmessung (K-TIM)].

  Stephanie Schürmann, Stefan Scholten, Peter Melchers
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  ABSTRACT: The Kaufman-Test zur Intelligenzmessung (K-TIM) is the German-language adaptation of the Kaufman Adolescent and Adult Intelligence Test, serving the sophisticated assessment of intellectual abilities within the age range from 11 to over 85 years. Founded on the respective models of cognitive development by Horn and Cattell, Luria, and Piaget, the battery comprises 10 subtests, structured into fluid intelligence, crystallized intelligence, and assessment of delayed recall, reflecting the test concept. In addition to early trials during the translation and adaptation as well as the novel construction of items with a high verbal or cultural load, studies to evaluate test criteria were performed stepwise. Norms for the final version were developed using a sample of 2,320 persons from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and South Tyrol. Also, test criteria were analyzed again. Test reliability was very high (.96 to .98 for the scales). Validity of the developmental criterion important in adolescence, and that of the construct criterion was ensured by means of correlational and factor analyses. Concurrent validity was confirmed using correlational studies with other tests as external criteria. The adaptation did not result in any structural changes within the test concept. For the German-speaking countries as well the K-TIM is thus an interesting alternative to the differential assessment of intelligence in adolescents.
  Zeitschrift für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie und Psychotherapie 07/2010; 38(4):273-82. · 0.99 Impact Factor
• Article: Effectiveness of an adaptive multimodal treatment in children with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder -- global outcome.

  Manfred Döpfner, Dieter Breuer, Stephanie Schürmann, Tanja Wolff Metternich, Christiane Rademacher, Gerd Lehmkuhl
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  ABSTRACT: The meaning of different components within a multimodal treatment of ADHD remains to be further clarified. To evaluate the effectiveness of behaviour therapy and drug treatment within an adaptive and individually tailored multimodal treatment for children with ADHD. After an initial psychoeducation n = 75 school-children aged 6-10 years with a diagnosis of ADHD/HKD were assigned to either behaviour therapy (including continued psychoeducation) or medical management with methylphenidate plus psychoeducation. Depending on the effectiveness, the treatment was either terminated (if totally effective) with long-term aftercare and continuation of medication if needed, or (if partially effective) the other treatment component was added (combined treatment), or (if ineffective) the treatment components were replaced. Thus a treatment rationale was applied which resulted in an adaptive and individually tailored therapy -- similar to a strategy that may be useful in clinical practice. Of the children who started with behaviour therapy after initial psychoeducation 26% received a combined treatment in later treatment stages. In most of the cases (82%) with initial medical management, behaviour therapy was added. ADHD symptoms, individually defined behaviour problems and comorbid symptoms were significantly reduced during the course of treatment. On core measures large pre-post effect sizes were found. On teacher ratings combined treatment was more effective than behaviour therapy. Both, behaviour therapy and combined treatment are effective interventions within an adaptive and individually tailored multimodal treatment strategy.
  European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 02/2004; 13 Suppl 1:I117-29. · 2.82 Impact Factor