Jelena Zumbach-Basu

Jelena Zumbach-Basu
Psychologische Hochschule Berlin · Department of Psychology

Assistant Professor; PhD, MSc Clinical Psychology

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Introduction
Dr. Zumbach-Basu is Assisstant Professor at Psychologische Hochschule Berlin, Germany. Her research currently focuses on child abuse and neglect and its consequences on child development and family functioning, forensic-psychological assessment in family law proceedings, and the assessment of children’s voices in judicial and administrative proceedings consistent with the UNCRC. She has been conducting psychological expert evaluations in child custody and child protection proceedings since 2013.
Additional affiliations
October 2018 - present
Psychologische Hochschule Berlin
Position
  • Professor (Assistant)
March 2014 - September 2016
Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
Position
  • Research Assistant

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Publications (34)
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Parenting styles act as a risk or a protective factor for the development of aggressive behavior problems in children. Moreover, children with deficits in emotion regulation often show increased aggressive behaviors. Previous studies confirm that parenting style also contributes to the development of emotion dysregulation. The present longitudinal...
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Bei der Arbeit von Sachverständigen im Familienrecht, die immer das Wohl der betroffenen Kinder zum Gegenstand hat, ist ein hochqualitatives Vorgehen unabdingbar. Umso wichtiger ist es, dass die Datengewinnung einem empirisch fundierten und standardisierten Vorgehen folgt, für das sich den psychologischen Sachverständigen bei der diagnostischen Exp...
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Background: Parental pathology may affect parenting capacity and is deemed a risk factor for child maltreatment. Especially parental personality disorder (PD) can significantly burden the relationship and interaction between parents and their children. Objective: This meta-analytic review aims to summarize and quantify the influence of parental...
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Little knowledge exists on how evaluators in child custody and child maltreatment cases are informed by guidelines, the kinds of qualifications required and the types of training provided in different countries. The purpose of this paper is to provide an international preliminary comparison on how child custody and child maltreatment risk assessmen...
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Performing child maltreatment risk assessments is a challenging task that calls for valid and reliable measures. In child protection proceedings, mental health professionals conduct maltreatment assessments that often form an important basis for judicial decision making. Because parent–child interaction is a key construct in maltreatment risk evalu...
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Research Findings: A successful transition from preschool to elementary school requires a high level of behavioral adaptation. The aim of our study was to analyze child-related factors in preschool that facilitate a positive behavioral adaptation in the transitional period to elementary school. A cluster analysis was conducted with the data from 40...
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Background Extensive empirical evidence suggests that high Callous-Unemotional (CU) traits in childhood and adolescence can reliably identify individuals at risk for antisocial outcomes. The present study addresses research gaps by investigating the factor structure of CU traits in children at preschool age. Methods The sample includes 371 childre...
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In this exploratory study, we analyze strategies presented by young children in the context of having their voices heard. We elicit first‐hand accounts of N = 113 5‐year‐old children's responses to rights‐based scenarios to identify their will‐expression strategies. We assess developmental factors including, emotional competence, social competence,...
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This study analyzes the questions on aspects of child custody, visitation rights, or child endangerment that judges pose to forensic psychologists in family law proceedings. Before conducting a psychological evaluation, the legal question in the referral has to be translated into case-specific, forensically relevant issues. The only overarching pri...
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Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit ist eine empirische Analyse familiengerichtlicher Fragestellungen an psychologische Sachverständige zur Identifikation relevanter Merkmale, die je nach zugrundeliegender Fallkonstellation durch die Gerichte vorgegeben sind. Grundlage für die vorliegende Erhebung sind N=195 Beweisbeschlüsse, die in den Jahren 2017 und 20...
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Zusammenfassung. Erziehungsfähigkeit ist ein vielseitig verstandener Begriff, der sich auf die elterliche Fähigkeit zur Erfüllung kindlicher Bedürfnisse bezieht. Die Beurteilung der Erziehungsfähigkeit ist ein entscheidender Aspekt in Kinderschutzfragen und oft wesentliche Aufgabe bei psychologischen Begutachtungen in familienrechtlichen Verfahren....
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The transition from preschool to elementary school requires high adaptive behaviours. Our study's aim is to analyze the reciprocal effects between self-regulation and behaviour problems during this transitional phase. Study results are based on longitudinal data collected at preschool and elementary school. Children's level of behaviour problems at...
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An psychologische Sachverständige wird von Familiengerichten in Umgangskonflikten, in denen Kinder einen umgangsverweigernden Kindeswillen zum Ausdruck bringen, häufig die Frage herangetragen, wie der Umgang zum Wohle des Kindes gestaltet werden sollte und ob er gegen seinen Willen durchzusetzen ist oder nicht. Um dies beantworten zu können, ist ei...
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Die Tätigkeit von Sachverständigen in Gerichtsverfahren bei Fragen nach Kindeswohlgefährdung erfordert in der Regel zukunftsbezogene Wahrscheinlichkeitsaussagen, die eine Prognose darstellen. Obwohl Parallelen zur Gefährlichkeits- und kriminalprognostischen Begutachtung erkennbar sind, finden aktuarische Prognoseinstrumente in der familienrechtlich...
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Child protection matters from an important social and legal challenge, in which psychologists may be called upon to address a series of questions relevant for judicial decision-making. In an explorative manner, the current study investigates variables that influence psychological evaluators' recommendations in child protection cases. The data is ba...
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Zusammenfassung Psychologische Sachverstandige konnen in Sorge- und Umgangsrechtsverfahren einen wichtigen Beitrag leisten, indem sie Gerichten am Kindeswohl orientierte Einschatzungen liefern. Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit ist es, quantifizierte Effekte von Einflussfaktoren auf die Empfehlung psychologischer Sachverstandiger in Sorgerechts- und Umg...
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Psychologists can make an important contribution to decision making in custody and access proceedings by providing expert opinions to the courts, addressing the best interests of the child. This study aims to investigate quantified effects of indicators on recommendations of psychological evaluators in custody and access proceedings. This data is b...
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Die entwicklungspsychopathologische Forschung stellt einen wichtigen Eckpfeiler für die empirische Fundierung psychologischer Sachverständigeneinschätzungen in der familienrechtspsychologischen Begutachtung dar. Dies ergibt sich daraus, dass eine Einschätzung bezüglich einer kindeswohldienlichen Regelung bzw. einer möglichen Überschreitung der Schw...
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Psychologists can contribute considerably to decision making in family law proceedings. The mental health of the parents and the children forms an important factor in psychological evaluation. It is the overall aim of this study to specifically examine the occurrence of mental disorders in evaluated family members in cases of termination of parenta...
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In der psychologischen Praxis fanden Kinderzeichnungen ihren Einsatz sowohl im diagnostischen, als auch im therapeutischen Kontext. Ziel dieser Untersuchung ist es, Zusammenhänge zwischen dem elterlichen Erziehungsverhalten, elterlichen Belastungen sowie Verhaltensauffälligkeiten von 4-6-jährigen Kindern und deren Familiendarstellungen in Kinderzei...
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Objective: This study examined the frequency and distribution of mental health problems in children and adolescents who had previously been psychologically evaluated in family law proceedings. Method: The data stem from psychological evaluations (N=298) conducted between 2008 and 2012 at an evaluation institute in Bremen, Germany. The reports in...
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Over the past several decades, empirical research on psychological evaluations in family law proceedings has identified strengths and weaknesses in this important area of assessment (Bow, 2006; Saini, 2008). This systematic review aims to provide a current and comprehensive summary of empirical research findings on psychological evaluation practice...

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