Research interests: Emotional symptoms and affective disorders from preschool to school age: association with psychosocial and biological risk factors
The association of social-cognitive capacities as emotion comprehension and Theory-of-Mind with children's symptoms / strengths, Mental health from preschool age to school age: Investigation of a community sample, Parent-child-interaction and children's development
Research projects: Research coordination and involvement in several research projects, see DFG, LIFE, PaKT, ProKind, AMIS.
Curriculum Vitae:
| 1996 - 2002 | Study of Psychology at the Georg-August-University Göttingen and
Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany
Title of diploma thesis:
Friendships and sibling-relationships in adulthood |
| 2003 - 2006 | Ph.D Student of Prof. Dr. G. Aschersleben and Dr. P. Hauf at the Max Planck
Institute for Psychological Research, Research Group Infant Cognition and
Action, Munich
Graduation to Dr. phil. at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
Title
of doctoral dissertation: The role of action effects on infants' action
perception and action control. |
| 2006 - 2007 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Department of Psychology, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Prinz, Munich and Leipzig |
| since 2007 | Senior Researcher and Research Coordinator at the Department of Child and
Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Prof. Dr. K. von
Klitzing, Leipzig |
| since 2014 | Trainee in psychodynamic therapy (for children and adults) at the Saxon Institute for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Leipzig (SPP) |
| since 2017 | Professor for Developmental Psychology at the International Psychoanalytic University Berlin (50 Percent) |
Teaching:
Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
Seminar: Development of cognition and action in the first two years of life [Entwicklung von Kognition und Handlung in den ersten zwei Lebensjahren], Aschersleben, G., Hofer, T. & Klein, A. (WS 04/05)
Seminar: Early cognitive development [Frühe kognitive Entwicklung], Hofer, T. & Klein, A. (WS 05/06)
University Leipzig
Seminar: Introduction to Developmental Psychology: Theories [Einführung in die Entwicklungspsychologie: Theorien der Entwicklungspsychologie], Klein, A., Zmyj, N. & Liszkowski, U. (WS 06 / 07)
Seminar: Applied Developmental Psychology: Psychiatric Disorders in Children and Youth [Angewandte Entwicklungspsychologie: Psychische Störungen im Kindes- und Jugendalter] (SS 2011)
Seminar: Psychiatric Disorders in Children and Youth [Psychische Störungen im Kindes- und Jugendalter] (WS 2013 / 2014)
Seminar: Psychiatric Disorders in Children and Youth [Psychische Störungen im Kindes- und Jugendalter] (SS 2014)
Seminar: Clinical-psychological diagnostics [Klinisch-psychologische Diagnostik] (SS 2014)
Seminar: Development in specific life contexts: Psychiatric Disorders in Children and Youth [Entwicklung in ausgewählten Lebenskontexten: Psychische Störungen im Kindes- und Jugendalter] (SS 2014)
Seminar: Development in specific life contexts: Psychiatric Disorders in Children and Youth [Entwicklung in ausgewählten Lebenskontexten: Psychische Störungen im Kindes- und Jugendalter] (SS 2015)
