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 04/2023 | Continuation of the Assistant Professorship for Child and Adolescent Psychology and Psychotherapy, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz and deputy head of the psychotherapeutic outpatient clinic for children and adolescents at the JGU Mainz |
| 2021-03/2023 | W3 Deputy Professorship for Child and Adolescent Psychology and Psychotherapy, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz and head of the psychotherapeutic outpatient clinic for children and adolescents at the JGU 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 |
| 2020-2021 | Maternity and parental leave (including part-time employment) |
| 2018-2021 | 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/in revision/under review
Armbruster-Genc, D. J. N., Rammensee, R. A., Jungmann, S. M., Drake, P., Wessa, M & Basten, U. (under review). The Ambiguous Cue task . Measurement reliability of an experimental paradigm for the assessment of interpretation bias and associations with mental health. Psychological Assessment.
Jungmann, S. M. & Dietl, L. (in revision). Post-traumatic stress symptoms in parents and mental health of their children during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Child and Family Studies.
Jungmann, S. M., Garbe Huedo, S. F., Jacobs, K. A. S., Pothorn, N. K. (under review). Mental load in women and mothers: Causes of distress, personality traits, and psychopathology. Psychology of Women Quarterly.
Jungmann, S. M., Gropalis, M., Schenkel, S. & Witthöft, M. (in revision). Is Cyberchondria specific to Hypochondriasis? Journal of Anxiety Disorders.
Jungmann, S. M. & Sauer, K. S. (accepted). Pathologische Krankheitsängste: Symptomatik, Diagnostik, Pathogenese und Behandlung. Verhaltenstherapie & Verhaltensmedizin.
Jungmann, S. M. & Witthöft, M. (in revision). Interoception in children and adolescents across psychopathology: A systematic literature review and transdiagnostic approach. Developmental Review.
Krömer, L., Jungmann, S. M. & Freitag, Ch. M. (in revision). Course of anxiety-specific assumptions and interpretation bias during day-care/inpatient treatment in youths with severe social phobia. Zeitschrift für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie und Psychotherapie.
Wessa, M., Domke-Wolf, M., & Jungmann, S. M. (under review). Dissociation of implicit and explicit interpretation bias: The role of depressive symptoms and negative cognitive schemata. Brain Sciences.
2023
Braescher, A.-K., Benke, C., Weismuller, B. M., Asselmann, E., Skoda, E.-M., Teufel, M., Jungmann, S. M., Witthoeft, M., & Pane-Farre, C. A. (2023). Anxiety and depression during the first wave of COVID-19 in Germany - results of repeated cross-sectional surveys. PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE, 53(3), 1115-1119. DOI
Brand, S., Meis, A. C., Tünte, M. R., Murphy, J., Woller, J. P., Jungmann, S. M., Witthöft, M., Hoehl, S., Weymar, M., Hermann, C., & Ventura-Bort, C. (2023). A multi-site German validation of the Interoceptive Accuracy Scale and its relation to psychopathological symptom burden. Communications Psychology, 1(1). DOI
Jungmann, S., Grebinyk, G., & Witthoeft, M. (2023). Parents’ views of psychological research with children: Barriers, benefits, personality, and psychopathology. PLOS ONE, 18(6). DOI
Jungmann, S., Piefke, M., Nin, V., Asmundson, G. J. G., & Witthoeft, M. (2023). COVID-19 stress syndrome in the German general population: Validation of a German version of the COVID Stress Scales. PLOS ONE, 18(2). DOI
Luckhardt, C., Mühlherr, A. M., Schütz, M., Jarczok, T. A., Jungmann, S. M., Howland, V., Veit, L., Althen, H., & Freitag, C. M. (2023). Reward processing in adolescents with social phobia and depression. Clinical Neurophysiology, 150, 205-215. DOI
Nin, V. M. E. L., Willmund, G.-D., Jungmann, S. M., Asmundson, G. J. G., & Piefke, M. (2023). Mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: Stress and strain profiles in the German population. Frontiers in Public Health, 11. DOI
2022
Brand, S., Jungmann, S. M., Kolb, J., & Witthoeft, M. (2022). The Importance of Independent Empirical Evidence and Why We Disagree With Multmeier et al. (2021). CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE. Published. DOI
Brand, S., Meis, A. C., Tünte, M. R., Murphy, J., Woller, J. P., Jungmann, S., Witthöft, M., Hoehl, S., Weymar, M., Hermann, C., & Ventura-Bort, C. (2022). Bridging the Gap between Interoception and Mental Health: Subjective Interoceptive Accuracy as a Correlate of Psychopathological Symptom Burden in a Multicenter Study. In PsyArXiv. DOI
Hennemann, S., Kuhn, S., Witthöft, M., & Jungmann, S. M. (2022). Diagnostic Performance of an App-Based Symptom Checker in Mental Disorders: Comparative Study in Psychotherapy Outpatients. JMIR Mental Health, 9(1), e32832-e32832. DOI
Jungmann, S. M., Becker, F., & Witthoft, M. (2022). Measuring the Vividness of Mental Images: An Adaptation and Validation of German Versions of the Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire (VVIQ) and the Plymouth Sensory Imagery Questionnaire (PSI-Q). DIAGNOSTICA, 68(3), 125-136. DOI
Jungmann, S. M., Wagner, L., Klein, M., & Kaurin, A. (2022). Functional somatic symptoms and emotion regulation in children and adolescents. Clinical Psychology in Europe, 4(2). DOI
Sauer, K. S., Bailer, J., Jungmann, S. M., & Witthöft, M. (2022). Inhibitory Learning-Based Exposure Therapy for Patients With Pathological Health Anxiety: Results From a Single Case Series Study. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice. Published. DOI
Sauer, K. S., Schmidt, A., Jungmann, S. M., Bailer, J., & Witthoft, M. (2022). Do patients with pathological health anxiety fear COVID-19? A time-course analysis of 12 single cases during the "first wave" of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. JOURNAL OF PSYCHOSOMATIC RESEARCH, 152. DOI
Witthöft, M., Jungmann, S. M., Germer, S., & Bräscher, A.-K. (2022). Early adverse effects of behavioural preventive strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany: An online general population survey. Clinical Psychology in Europe, 4(3). DOI
2021
Jungmann, S. M., & Witthoeft, M. (2021). Mythen der Klinischen Psychologie und Psychotherapie: Entwicklung und Erprobung eines Fragebogens zur standardisierten Erfassung. VERHALTENSTHERAPIE, 31(2), 109-118. DOI
Krömer, L., Jarczok, T. A., Althen, H., Mühlherr, A. M., Howland, V., Jungmann, S. M., & Freitag, C. M. (2021). Implicit assumptions and interpretation bias in youth with severe, chronic social phobia. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. Published online. DOI
Schenkel, S. K., Jungmann, S. M., Gropalis, M., & Witthoeft, M. (2021). Conceptualizations of Cyberchondria and Relations to the Anxiety Spectrum: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH, 23(11). DOI
2020
Jungmann, F., Jorg, T., Hahn, F., Pinto dos Santos, D., Jungmann, S. M., Düber, C., Mildenberger, P., & Kloeckner, R. (2020). Attitudes Toward Artificial Intelligence Among Radiologists, IT Specialists, and Industry. Academic Radiology. Published. DOI
Jungmann, S. M., & Witthoeft, M. (2020). Health anxiety, cyberchondria, and coping in the current COVID-19 pandemic: Which factors are related to coronavirus anxiety?. JOURNAL OF ANXIETY DISORDERS, 73. DOI
Jungmann, S. M., & Witthoeft, M. (2020). Medically unexplained symptoms in children and adolescents: Illness-related self-concept and parental symptom evaluations. JOURNAL OF BEHAVIOR THERAPY AND EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHIATRY, 68. DOI
Jungmann, S. M., Brand, S., Kolb, J., & Witthöft, M. (2020). Do Dr. Google and Health Apps Have (Comparable) Side Effects? An Experimental Study. Clinical Psychological Science, 8(2), 306-317. DOI
Sauer, K. S., Jungmann, S. M., & Witthöft, M. (2020). Emotional and Behavioral Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Health Anxiety, Intolerance of Uncertainty, and Distress (In)Tolerance. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(19), 7241-7241. DOI
Witthoeft, M., Braescher, A.-K., Jungmann, S. M., & Koteles, F. (2020). Somatic Symptom Perception and Interoception A Latent-Variable Approach. ZEITSCHRIFT FUR PSYCHOLOGIE-JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY, 228(2), 100-109. DOI
2019
Jungmann, S. M., Klan, T., Kuhn, S., & Jungmann, F. (2019). Accuracy of a Chatbot (Ada) in the Diagnosis of Mental Disorders: Comparative Case Study With Lay and Expert Users. JMIR Formative Research, 3(4), e13863-e13863. DOI
2018
Kuhn, S., Jungmann, S., & Jungmann, F. (2018). Künstliche Intelligenz für Ärzte und Patienten: „Googeln“ war gestern. Deutsches Ärzteblatt, 115(26).
2016
Görgen, S. M., Hiller, W., & Witthöft, M. (2016). Die Spontaneous Use of Imagery Scale (SUIS)–Entwicklung und teststatistische Prüfung einer deutschen Adaption. Diagnostica, 62(1), 31-43. DOI
Jungmann, S., Vollmer, N., Selby, E. A., & Witthöft, M. (2016). Understanding dysregulated behaviors and compulsions : an extension of the emotional cascade model and the mediating role of intrusive thoughts. Frontiers in psychology, 7, Art. 994. Author/Publisher URL
2015
Goergen, S. M., Joormann, J., Hiller, W., & Witthoeft, M. (2015). Implicit Affect after Mental Imagery: Introduction of a Novel Measure and Relations to Depressive Symptoms in a Non-Clinical Sample. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOPATHOLOGY, 6(1), 59-81. DOI
Görgen, S. M., Joormann, J., Hiller, W., & Witthöft, M. (2015). The role of mental imagery in depression : negative mental imagery induces strong implicit and explicit affect in depression. Frontiers in psychiatry, 6, Art. 94. Author/Publisher URL
Görgen, S. M., Loch, N., Hiller, W., & Witthöft, M. (2015). Kognitive Emotionsregulation und Psychopathologie: Erste teststatistische Untersuchung des deutschen Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ) in einer klinischen Stichprobe. Zeitschrift für Psychiatrie, Psychologie und Psychotherapie, 63(4), 255-265. DOI
2014
Görgen, S. M., Hiller, W., & Witthöft, M. (2014). Health Anxiety, Cognitive Coping, and Emotion Regulation: A Latent Variable Approach. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 21(2), 364-374. DOI
Professional Affiliations
- DGPs (German Psychological Society, Section Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy)
- KJPVT (Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Behavioral Therapy)
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