Juniorprofessorin für Klinische Psychologie & Psychotherapie des Kindes- und Jugendalters
Education
2019 | EURONET-SOMA Summer School "Persistent Somatic Symptoms"; Groningen (NL) |
2018 | Trainer license for the parent training Triple P (Positive Parenting Program) |
2018 | Licensure for psychological psychotherapy for childhood and youth (Center of Psychological Psychotherapy, Heidelberg) |
2014 | Ph.D. in Psychology, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz Thesis: The emotional impact of mental imagery and relations to affective symptoms and clinical depression, supervised by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hiller |
2014 | Licensure for psychological psychotherapy (Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz) |
2014-2018 | Professional training in cognitive-behavioural psychotherapy for children and adolescents, Center of Psychological Psychotherapy, Heidelberg |
2011 | Research visit at the University of Miami (Florida, USA), mood and anxiety lab, supervised by Prof. Dr. Jutta Joormann |
2011-2014 | Ph.D. studies at the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz |
2010-2014 | Professional training in cognitive-behavioural psychotherapy, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz |
2010 | Diploma in psychology, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz Thesis: Health anxiety and emotion regulation |
2009 | Research visit at the University of Miami (Florida, USA), mood and anxiety lab, supervised by Prof. Dr. Jutta Joormann |
Academic and Clinical Positions
since 2021 | W3 Deputy Professorship for Child and Adolescent Psychology and Psychotherapy, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz |
since 2018 | Head of the Recruitment Center Mainz as part of the multi-center study COMPARE ("Children of mentally ill parents at risk evaluation", Prof. Dr. H. Christiansen, Philipps-University Marburg) |
since 2018 | Assistant Professorship for Child and Adolescent Psychology and Psychotherapy, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz |
since 2018 | Section leader for health anxiety and clinical psychologist, Outpatient Department of Psychotherapy, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz |
2016-2018 | Maternity and parental leave (including part-time employment) |
2016-2018 | Research assistant, Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy (Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hiller), Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz |
2015-2016 | Psychotherapy for children and adolescents, Center of Psychological Psychotherapy, Heidelberg |
2015-2016 | Research assistant and leader of the day clinic for adolescents, Inpatient Clinic of Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, and Psychotherapy of Childhood and Adolescence, University Hospital Frankfurt |
2014-2017 | Psychotherapy for children and adolescents, private practice, Mainz |
2013-2015 | Research assistant, Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy (Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hiller), Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz |
2011-2014 | Psychological training, Outpatient Department of Psychotherapy, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz |
2010-2011 | Psychological training, Inpatient Clinic of Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, and Psychotherapy, Alzey |
Scholarships and Awards
2018 | Teaching funding (innovative teaching project) by the Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz (7105 €) |
2017 | Research funding by the Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz (13.270 €) |
2011-2013 | Ph.D. scholarship from the Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz |
Publications
In Press
Jungmann, S. M. & Witthöft, M. (in revision). Interoception in children and adolescents across psychopathology: A systematic literature review and transdiagnostic approach. Developmental Review.
Sauer, K. S., Bailer, J., Jungmann, S. M. & Witthöft, M. (in revision). Inhibitory learning-based exposure therapy for patients with pathological health anxiety: results from a single case series study. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice.
Witthöft, M., Jungmann, S. M., Germer, S. & Bräscher. A.-K. (accepted). Early adverse effects of behavioral preventive strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany: An online general population survey. Clinical Psychology in Europe.
Jungmann, S. M., Wagner, L., Klein, M. & Kaurin, A. (in press). Functional somatic symptoms and emotion regulation in children and adolescents. Clinical Psychology in Europe.
Jungmann, S. M., Becker, F. & Witthöft, M. (in press). Erfassung der Lebendigkeit mentaler Vorstellungsbilder: Adaptation und Validierung deutschsprachiger Versionen des Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire (VVIQ) und des Plymouth Sensory Imagery Questionnaire (PSI-Q). Diagnostica.
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Recensions
Görgen, S. M. (2013). Buchbesprechung „Wege der Psychotherapie – Kognitive Verhaltenstherapie“. Verhaltenstherapie, 23, 215.
Professional Affiliations
- German Psychological Society (DGPs; Section Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy)
Research Interests
- Persistent somatic symptoms, emotion regulation, and health anxiety in children and adolescents
- Interoception and psychopathology in children and adolescents
- Anxiety disorders in adolescence
- Inhibitory learning Approach and pathological health anxiety
- Mental imagery: ressources and psychopathology
- e-mental health in the diagnosis of mental disorders and cyberchondria
- myths in clinical psychology and psychotherapy