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Introduction
I have been working as a research assistant at the Medical Faculty of Heidelberg University Hospital since 2010. My work focuses on the prevention of harmful substance use, psychothraumatological treatment of refugees and asylum seekers, aspects of education for international medical students, psychotherapy research (PTSD, depression, autobiographical memory), questionnaire development and multivariate statistics. Since 2021 I have been working psychotherapeutically in my own practice.
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February 2010 - August 2017
February 2010 - August 2017
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The prevalence of trauma-related disorders, such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), as well as depressive or anxiety disorders, are significantly increased in refugees compared to the general population. This is due to the high risk of burdening and potentially traumatic experiences before, during and after their flight. However, the treatme...
Background
Asylum seekers are a particularly vulnerable population due to a wide range of external stressors. Traumatic events and difficult social/economic prospects can lead to an elevated susceptibility for substance use disorders. The aim of the present study was to determine whether asylum seekers suffering from mental or physical distress pre...
Background
Mental comorbidities of physically ill patients lead to higher morbidity, mortality, health-care utilization and costs.
Objective
The aim of the study was to investigate the impact of mental comorbidity and physical multimorbidity on the length-of-stay in medical inpatients at a maximum-care university hospital.
Design
The study follow...
Curiosity, which has been called the third pillar of academic achievement and positively predicts academic performance (von Stumm et al., 2011), is widely recognized as an important factor in acquiring knowledge and skills in medical training, and may be critical for students´ sound mental health. Medical educators have advocated that curiosity sho...
Objective
Refugees and asylum seekers are highly vulnerable to the development of mental health problems, yet oftentimes their need is underestimated. We aimed to develop a culturally sensitive screening tool for primary care settings assessing the urgency and need for mental health treatment to close this gap.
Method
Items for the screening tool...
Zusammenfassung
Ziel der Studie Aufgrund von prä-, peri und post-migratorischen Stressfaktoren leiden Geflüchtete häufiger als die Allgemeinbevölkerung unter psychischen Erkrankungen. Um die Prävalenz von Posttraumatischem Stress, depressiven und Angstsymptomen bei Geflüchteten niederschwellig zu erfassen, wurde eine Erhebung mit Kurzfragebögen in...
Zusammenfassung
Geflüchtete erleben vielfach traumatisierende Ereignisse im Heimatland und auf der Flucht, die in dieser Gruppe zu einer erhöhten Prävalenz der Posttraumatischen Belastungsstörung führen. Traumaorientierte stabilisierende Techniken können vor allem in der frühen post-migratorischen Phase eine erste psychosoziale Stabilisierung traum...
Background
International medical students are frequently confronted with intercultural, psychosocial, and language barriers and often receive lower marks in written, oral, and clinical-practical examinations than fellow local students. Training communication competence in procedural skills, such as blood sampling, is further challenge in this parti...
Background: International medical students are frequently confronted with intercultural, psychosocial, and language barriers and often receive lower marks in written, oral, and clinical-practical examinations than fellow local students. Training communication competence in procedural skills, such as blood sampling, is further challenge in this part...
Hintergrund: Die Erhebung der Anamnese und die Durchführung körperlicher Untersuchungstechniken stellen eine grundlegende Kompetenz des ärztlichen Handelns dar. Allerdings zeigen zahlreiche nationale und internationale Studien, dass bei Medizinstudierenden und angehenden Ärzten erhebliche Defizite in der korrekten Durchführung der körperlichen Unte...
Climate change (CC) is adversely affecting human health and will become far more dangerous in the future, if no substantial measures are taken. Young people in particular are taking an energetic stand for CC awareness. Some CC experts argue that medical doctors are especially well positioned to inform about the impact of CC on public health, as it...
Chordae tendineae rupture (CTR) is a potentially life-threatening cardiac event often resulting in Acute mitral regurgitation (AMR). We assessed Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and anxiety symptoms in n=21 CTR patients with AMR (age 82.3 ± 4.2 years; 66.7% men) and compared them to n=23 CTR patients with Chronic mitral regurgitat...
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Az Identitásfejlődés Felmérése Serdülőkorban kérdőív (AIDA) az egészséges identitásfejlődés, a normatív identitáskrízis és az identitásdijfúzió elkülönítésére alkalmas önkitöltős módszer a serdülő korosztály részére. A diffúz identitásszerveződés a személyiségzavarok egyik átható jellemzője, ezáltal az AIDA hatékony indikátor...
Background: Refugees have an increased risk of developing mental health problems. There are insufficient psychosocial care structures to meet the resulting need for support. Stabilizing and guided imagery techniques have shown promising results in increasing traumatized refugees’ emotional stabilization. If delivered via audio files, the techniques...
Background: Emergency call-takers and dispatchers (ECDs) field emergency calls and dispatch the appropriate emergency services. Exposure to the callers’ traumatic experiencescan lead to psychological stress and even to secondary traumatic stress (STS). In addition, previous studies suggest that ECDs may also suffer from posttraumatic stress disorde...
Zusammenfassung
Im Kontext des Praxisforschungsprojekts SYMPA-GB (Systemtherapeutische Methoden in der psychiatrischen Akutversorgung von Menschen mit geistiger Behinderung) fokussierte eine Interviewstudie auf die Analyse der Interaktionen im Multi-Helfersystem von Personen mit geistiger Behinderung, die im Heim leben und aufgrund aggressiven Verh...
Background
Asylum seekers display high prevalence rates of posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety, and panic disorder due to pre-, peri-, and post-migration stressors. In contrast to the high mental health burden, health care utilization among asylum seekers in the early phase of resettlement is low. However, the early stages after migr...
Background: A number of correlates to adolescent substance use have been shown, yet their unique predictive influence is unclear. We investigated the incremental validity of demographics, family background, school variables, risk perception, parental alcohol attitudes, age of first alcohol use, peer group influence, and behavioral variables as they...
Die Broschüre wendet sich an Geflüchtete, BehandlerInnen und alle interessierten LeserInnen, die durch Achtsamkeit und Imagination selbst mehr psychische Stabilität entwickeln oder diese vermitteln möchten. Um der Sprachpluralität gerecht zu werden, liegen die Übungen neben Deutsch auf den sechs Sprachen Englisch, Französisch, Arabisch, Farsi, Türk...
Objective:
Asylum seekers who have experienced persecution, war and torture show high prevalence rates of stress-related mental disorders. After arrival in the host country, the early stages of resettlement seem to be a particularly vulnerable phase characterized by social instability. This longitudinal study aimed to explore predictors of the asy...
BACKGROUND
Refugees have an increased risk of developing mental health problems. There are insufficient psychosocial care structures to meet the resulting need for support. Stabilizing and guided imagery techniques have shown promising results in increasing traumatized refugees’ emotional stabilization. If delivered via audio-files, the respective...
Introduction: This article describes the development of an Aggression and Restriction Observation Checklist (AROC) for use in residential and in-patient services for adults with intellectual disabilities (ID). The AROC was developed in collaboration between researchers and frontline staff. It assesses self-, person-, and object-directed aggressive...
Background:
Adolescence is a critical phase for the development substance use patterns. We propose that individual competence in dealing with psychoactive substances is crucial for the development of healthy substance use behavior and prevention of substance misuse or addiction.
Objectives:
We present a new concept of health related skills in de...
The main aim of the study is pilot evaluation of the life skills program REBOUND in a school context focusing on substance use, risk perception, and knowledge about psychoactive substances ( = 723 students in five schools and 46 classes, Mage = 14.8, range 14-18) for the total sample and in the subgroups gender, age, and school type. Main goal of t...
Zusammenfassung. Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht die Entwicklung des Sense of Coherence (SOC) sensu Antonovsky an einer
Stichprobe von 318 Jugendlichen mithilfe vonGeneral Growth MixtureModeling la¨ngsschnittlich vom14. bis zum24. Lebensjahr.Gepru¨ft
werden Zusammenha¨nge zwischen dem SOC-Entwicklungsverlauf und dem Konsum von Tabak, Alkohol und...
Background:
While several studies have investigated the relationship between risk perception and substance use, surprisingly little is known about mutual influences between both variables over time.
Objectives:
The present study aimed to explore two different hypotheses separately for tobacco, alcohol and cannabis: influences from risk perceptio...
Background: REBOUND is a novel media-based life skills and risk education programme developed for 14- to 25-year olds in school, university or youth group settings. This paper outlines the programme’s rationale, curriculum and implementation. It provides information of relevance to researchers, programme developers and policymakers.
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Background
REBOUND is a novel media-based life skills and risk education programme developed for 14- to 25-year olds in school, university or youth group settings. This paper outlines the programme’s rationale, curriculum and implementation. It provides information of relevance to researchers, programme developers and policymakers.
Methods/design...
Sense of coherence (SOC) is conceptualized as a mutable orientation to life, but has often been found a stable attribute of individual differences. While several studies have documented the relationship between SOC and substance use, nothing is known about mutual influences between both variables over time in adolescence. The present study examines...
Der Heidelberger Medizinpsychologe Ede Nagy untersucht in diesem Buch den Zusammenhang zwischen psychischen und psychosozialen Beschwerden, der Lebens- und Studienzufriedenheit und dem kreativem Interesse von Studierenden. Die dabei fokussierten Problembereiche waren Ängste, Depressionen, Selbstwertprobleme, Kontakt- und Studiumsschwierigkeiten. Es...
