Cara Luisa Wicher, M.Sc.
Graduate Student (currently on internship)
Email: wicher@uni-wuppertal.de
Tel.: 0202-439 5509
Room: RG3.03.025
I study social and emotional risk and protective factors of self-harm (i.e., non-suicidal self-injury; suicidal thoughts and behaviors) in childhood and adolescence (e.g., loneliness, connectedness with peers, emotion regulation). Because encouraging individuals to “reach out” and disclose self-harming thoughts or behaviors to those around them is key to suicide prevention, I am particularly interested to better understand circumstances under which youth feel safe to share intentions of self-harm and what may help them overcome suicidal crises in everyday life (e.g., reasons for living). To reliably investigate these rare but potentially consequential phenomena, I use intensive longitudinal data to capture relevant processes and their fluctuations via Ecological Momentary Assessment in youths’ everyday lives.
Academic background
| from 10/2024 | Psychological psychotherapist in training, Psychotherapeutic Practice, Wuppertal |
| 01/2024 – 08/2024 | Clinical Internship, Psychotherapeutic Practice, Wuppertal |
| since 01/2024 | Graduate Student at the University of Wuppertal, Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology and Psychotherapy |
| 01/2023 – 12/2023 | Clinical Internship, Clinic for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Psychosomatic Medicine and Neurology, Evangelical Foundation Tannenhof, Remscheid |
| since 01/2023 | Clinical Training (Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapy), APP Cologne |
| 12/2022 – 12/2023 | Research Assistant, Chair of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology and Psychotherapy (Prof. Dr. Aleksandra Kaurin), University of Wuppertal |
| somce 12/2022 | Doctoral Studies, School for Human and Social Sciences, University of Wuppertal |
| 2021 – 2022 | Research Assistant, Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, Witten/Herdecke University, Germany (Jun.-Prof. Dr. Aleksandra Kaurin) |
| 2019 – 2022 | Student Clinician, Pediatric Outpatient Psychiatry Service, Klinik Walstedde, Drensteinfurt, Germany |
| 2021 – 2022 | Master of Science in Clinical Psychology, Witten/Herdecke University, Germany |
| 2017 – 2021 | Bachelor of Science Psychology, University of Cologne, Germany |
Publications
Teismann, T., Kaurin, A., Wicher, C.L., Friedrich, S. (2024). Risk assessment: suicidality and external endangerment. In T. Teismann, P. Thoma, S. Taubner, Wannemüller & K. Von Sydow. Clinical psychology and psychotherapy: A cross-procedural teaching and learning book (pp. 187-198). Hogrefe.
Recent preregistrations
Wicher, C. L., Kaurin, A., Dombrovski, A., Hallquist, M., Buecker, S., & Wright, A. G. C. (2023). Daily loneliness and suicidal ideation. https://osf.io/u5nak/
Kaurin, A., Krakau, L., Philippi, P., Wicher, C. L., Shiner, R. (2024, August 30). Adolescents' Pathological Personality Traits and Interpersonal Processes in Daily Life. https://osf.io/9bvr5
Congress contributions
Wicher, C.L., In-Albon, T., Teismann, T., Friedrich, S., Kaurin, A. (2024). Suicide prevention in childhood and adolescence: On the everyday assessment of "Reasons for Living" [Poster]. 20th European Symposium on Suicide and Suicidal Behaviour (ESSSB20), Rome, Italy.
Wicher, C.L., Kaurin, A., Friedrich, S., In-Albon, T., Teismann, T. (2024). Suicide prevention in childhood and adolescence: On the (everyday) assessment of “Reasons for Living”. [Lecture]. 3rd German Psychotherapy Congress (DPK), Berlin, Germany.
Wicher, C.L., Kaurin, A., Friedrich, S., In-Albon, T., Teismann, T. (2022). Disclosure of suicidal thoughts and intentions by children and adolescents in psychotherapy. [Lecture]. 1st German Psychotherapy Congress (DPK), Berlin, Germany.
Wicher, C.L., Kaurin, A., Friedrich, S., In-Albon, T., Teismann, T. (2022). Disclosure of suicidal thoughts and intentions by children and adolescents in psychotherapy. [Lecture]. German Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychiatry (DGKJP) Congress, Magdeburg, Germany.
Last modified: 18.09.2024
