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Termine und Sprechzeiten

Kinder & Jugendliche
Standort Bochum
Unsere Telefonsprechzeiten

Mo und Di 16 – 18 Uhr
Mi keine Sprechzeit
Do 10 – 13 Uhr
Fr 10 – 13 Uhr
unter der Telefonnummer: +49 234 32 28 178

E-Mail

ambulanz-kjp@rub.de

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Das Angebot richtet sich nicht an Kinder und Jugendliche, die den Eindruck haben, kurz vor einem Suizidversuch bzw. Suizid zu stehen. Wenden Sie sich in einem solchen Fall bitte umgehend an den Notdienst (112) oder an eine notfallaufnehmende kinder- und jugendpsychiatrische Klinik. In Bochum ist dies für Kinder und Jugendliche das

VALEARA Bochum -
Zentrum für Seelische Gesundheit
Axtstraße 33
44879 Bochum

erreichbar montags bis freitags von 7.30 bis 16.30 Uhr unter Tel.: +49 234 41 83 75 sowie in Notfällen täglich ab 16.30 Uhr unter Tel.: +49 234 41 83 03.

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Erwachsene

Ambulante psychotherapeutische Hilfe für Erwachsene erhalten Sie in unserer Hochschulambulanz in der Bochumer Innenstadt sowie in unserer Außenstelle in Hattingen.

Standort Bochum
Unsere Telefonsprechzeiten:

Mo bis Do von 9.30 – 13 Uhr
unter der Telefonnummer: +49 234 32 27 788

E-Mail

zpt-ambulanz@rub.de

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Standort Hattingen
Unsere Telefonsprechzeiten:

Dienstag bis Freitag von 12 bis 13 Uhr
unter Tel.: +49 2324 38 96 777

E-Mail

zpt-hattingen@rub.de

Das Angebot richtet sich nicht an Menschen, die den Eindruck haben, kurz vor einem Suizidversuch bzw. Suizid zu stehen. Wenden Sie sich in einem solchen Fall bitte umgehend an den Notdienst (112) oder an eine notfallaufnehmende psychiatrische Klinik. In Bochum sind dies entweder das

LWL-Universitätsklinikum
Alexandrinenstraße 1
44791 Bochum-Zentrum
Tel. +49 234 50 770

oder das


Martin-Luther-Krankenhaus
Voedestraße 79
44866 Bochum-Wattenscheid
Tel. +49 2327 650

Unsere Adressen

FBZ – Forschungs- und
Behandlungszentrum für
psychische Gesundheit

Bochumer Fenster
Massenbergstraße 9 – 13
44787 Bochum

Standort Hattingen
Essener Straße 31
45529 Hattingen

Familial transmission

Transgenerational mechanisms

Clinical psychology research is particularly strong in explaining the maintenance of mental disorders. Our knowledge of the causes and origins of mental disorders is not as profound. Family is a central context for the development of mental health and illness. In this research group, we address the question of how mental health and mental disorders are transmitted within a family. We consider psychological mechanisms such as social referencing or imitation learning as important candidates here. In our studies, we are interested in whether and how individual psychopathological features (not entire disorders) are passed on or learned, e.g., in parent-child interaction.

 

Pro-Child

Principal Investigator and Team

Prof. Dr. Silvia Schneider
Prof. Dr. Sabine Seehagen
Rabea Derhardt M. Sc.
Melanie Wieschmann M. Sc.

Collaborator

Free University of Berlin, Prof. Dr. Babette Renneberg (coordination of ProChild & sub-project 1)
University of Bremen, Prof. Dr. Nina Heinrichs (sub-project 3)
Ruhr-University Bochum, Prof. Dr. Robert Kumsta (sub-project 4)
Free University of Berlin, Prof. Dr. Ulrike Urban-Stahl (sub-project 5)

Funding

Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Funding number 01KR1805B)

Duration

Since June 2019

Description

Being exposed to violence and maltreatment as a child is a severe and well-documented risk factor for abnormal development. Children of mothers with borderline personality disorder (BPD) are at a particularly high risk of experiencing violence and maltreatment. There is compelling evidence that exposure to environmental adversity during childhood is associated with negative outcomes in adulthood. While the adverse impact of maternal BPD and the associated violent parenting practices on their children are known, the disorder-specific impact of maternal BPD on their children and the potential beneficial effects of a disorder-specific parent training on the children have not yet been investigated in detail.

Therefore, the overall goal of the ProChild study is to improve prevention of maltreatment and to promote mental health in children of mothers with borderline personality disorder (BPD) by strengthening mothers’ parenting skills.

The first aim of the present sub-project 2 is to examine the emotion regulation strategies and mental health status of children of mothers with BPD compared to a) children of mothers with anxiety disorders or depression and b) to children of mothers with no mental disorder. Secondly, the impact of a disorder-specific parenting program on the children’s emotion regulation and mental health is studied. Additionally, potential mediators and moderators will be considered. Children’s mental health status will be assessed with a structured Interview (Baby-DIPS and sub-sections of the Kinder-DIPS). Children’s temperament will be assessed via maternal report using questionnaires. Emotion regulation of the children will be explored using age-appropriate waiting tasks. All parameters are measured before and after the parenting training. A total of 324 children between 6 months to 6 years will be recruited, of which 178 account for children of mothers with BPD, 66 for children of mothers with depressive or anxiety disorders, and 80 for children of healthy mothers. Patients will be recruited by contacting individual therapists who specialize in BPD treatment. We assume that 10% will not meet the inclusion criteria. Furthermore, we expect a dropout rate of 25%. Consequently, final analysis will be conducted with 150 children of mothers with BPD and 70 control children.

Wait and See

Principal Investigator and Team

Prof. Dr. Silvia Schneider
Dr. Sabine Seehagen
M.Sc. Johanna Schoppmann

Funding

German Research Foundation (DFG: 415/8-1)

Duration

October 2016 – September 2019

Description

This project focused on mechanisms involved in learning to use the emotion regulation strategy 'distraction' in frustrating situations in toddlers. Four studies were planned to gain new insights into what factors help toddlers to successfully regulate themselves. The first study aimed at discovering whether toddlers can learn distraction through imitation and whether it makes a difference if the adult model was familiar or a stranger. The second study aimed at finding whether toddlers imitate distraction better from older siblings or their parents. A third study researched whether 3-year-olds can learn distraction through picture book reading and what characteristics in both the picture books and also the way it is read play a role. The fourth study strived to take a closer look at the relationship between temperament and the learning of emotion regulation strategies.

If Looks could talk

Principal Investigator and Team

Prof. Dr. Silvia Schneider
Prof. Dr. Albert Newen
Samantha Ehli, M.Sc.
Dr. Babett Voigt

Funding

Graduate college "Situated Cognition" of the German Research Foundation (GRK-2185/1)

Duration

June 2017 – May 2020

Description

In daily life, infants are often faced with ambiguous situations. Literature suggests that during these situations, infants usually increase their looking behaviour towards social partners (social referencing, SR). The ‘situated cognition’ framework claims that infants’ SR varies with social context features, such as familiarity of the social partner. Accounts, like the social-cognitive account and the co-regulation account, about the functions of SR diverge in their predictions on how familiarity influences infants’ SR. Our aim was elucidating SR’s function in infancy by examining SR patterns, affectivity and exploratory behaviour in situations of different levels of threat and with social partners of different familiarity.

Transgenerational interventions

Mental disorders run in families. While the effects of mental disorders on members of a family are well studied, there is little research on the effects of successful treatment of a mental disorder on family members. Our research group is studying the effects of successful psychotherapy on family members, from parent to child ("top-down") and from child to parent ("bottom-up"). In dismantling studies, we also seek to identify the role of family member involvement, particularly parent participation, on successful psychotherapy.

 

Improve-MH

Principal Investigator and Team

Prof. Dr. Silvia Schneider
Dr. Kerstin Konietzny
Dr. Omar Chehadi
Dipl. Psych. Angela Köster
Dr. Verena Pflug

Collaborator

Faculty of Psychology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Prof. Dr. Maike Luhmann and Prof. Dr. Jürgen Margraf

Faculty of Psychology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Prof. Dr. Robert Kumsta
Department of General Medicine, Ruhr-University Bochum, Prof. Dr. Horst Christian Vollmar

Institute of General Medicine, Hospital of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) Munich, Prof. Dr. Jochen Gensichen

Deaprtment of Health Economics and Health Services Research at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Prof. Dr. Hans-Helmut König, Dr. Christian Brettschneider

Institute of General Medicine, Universitätsklinikum Essen, Martina Heßbrügge

Funding

Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Funding number 01EE1801A)

Duration

Since June 2019

Description

Since 2014, Germany has received more than 1.3 million refugees, including many young children. Among refugees, mental health problems are highly prevalent. Approximately more than 50% of the refugees who fled armed conflicts are affected by mental health problems, such as depression or anxiety. Parental mental health problems as well as an unfavorable parenting style are major risk factors for children to develop mental health problems as well. To avoid a public-health tragedy and to maximize healthy development as well as integration into German society, low threshold and cost-effective interventions for refugee families with young children are needed within the primary care system. Given that effective early interventions yield the highest return on investment, our primary goal is to minimize mental health problems in refugees and to prevent their development in their children by addressing parental psychopathology as well as by improving parenting skills. For this purpose, we will provide and evaluate the IMPROVE program, a low threshold, primary care-based treatment and prevention program, for refugee families and their young children (0-6 years). Using culturally sensitive approaches, we will directly target the major access point into the German health care system (general practitioners), and address a group at high risk of developing mental disorders: Children of parents with mental health problems. Specifically, parents with mental health problems will receive the IMPROVE program via general practitioners, including a short treatment to deal with symptoms of anxiety and depression as well as an online training to promote a positive parenting style and accompanying phone calls with a psychologist. To examine the effects of the IMPROVE program, compared to a treatment as usual, parents are invited to take part in interviews on mental health outcomes and fill in questionnaires. It is hypothesized, that the IMPROVE intervention is superior to a treatment as usual, regarding the parental mental health as well as the long-term health of their child.