Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology and Psychotherapy

Lina Krakau

Research Associate (Postdoctoral Researcher)
Email: krakau[at]uni-wuppertal.de
Tel.: +49 (0)202-439 5512
Room: RG3.03.026

Academic Background

since 04/2025 Research Associate (Postdoctoral Researcher), Department of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Wuppertal
since 04/2023 Training Psychotherapist (Psychodynamic Psychotherapy), WePP Mainz
08/2020-04/2025 Doctoral Studies, Mainz Research School of Translational Biomedicine, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
since 10/2019 Research Associate, Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Mainz
10/2016-09/2019 M.Sc. Psychology, (Clinical and Neuropsychology), J.W. Goethe-University Frankfurt
10/2013-10/2016 B.Sc. Psychology, J.W. Goethe-University Frankfurt

Funding

10/2024-10/2025 Minding the Mind – Assessing Mentalization in the Course of Psychotherapy (gefördert von der International Psychoanalytic Association)
Since 09/2022 Efficacy of high-intensity versus low intensity psychoanalytically oriented long-term treatments and determinants of outcome: individual participant data Meta-analysis of Long-term Analytic treatment Studies (MeLAS) (gefördert von der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychoanalyse, Psychotherapie, Psychosomatik und Tiefenpsychologie; Windholz Foundation)

Selected Publications

Krakau, L., Silk, J. S., Do, Q., James, K., Wright, A. G., Ladouceur, C. D., & Kaurin, A. (in press). Prospective Effects of Caregiver-Child Interaction on Developmental Manifestations of Personality Pathology During Adolescence. Development and Psychopathology.

Krakau, L., Ernst, M., Hautzinger, M., Beutel, M. E., & Leuzinger-Bohleber, M. (2024). Childhood trauma and differential response to long-term psychoanalytic versus cognitive–behavioural therapy for chronic depression in adults. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2024.112

Jankowsky, K., Krakau, L., Schroeders, U., Zwerenz, R., & Beutel, M. E. (2023). Predicting treatment response using machine learning: A registered report. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, bjc.12452. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjc.12452

Krakau, L., Leuzinger-Bohleber, M., Brähler, E., Schmidt, P., Rost, F., Huber, D., Klug, G., Löffler-Stastka, H., Rössler-Schülein, H., Leichsenring, F., Salzer, S., Brockmann, J., Jakobsen, T., Ernst, M., & Beutel, M. E. (2023). Protocol: Efficacy of high-intensity versus low-intensity psychoanalytically oriented long-term treatments and determinants of outcome: Individual participant data Meta-analysis of Long-term Analytic treatment Studies (MeLAS). BMJ Open, 13(7), e069332. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-069332

Rückert, K. K., Ernst, M., Zwerenz, R., Michal, M., Beutel, M. E., & Krakau, L. (2023). Der Zusammenhang struktureller und symptomatischer Veränderung im Rahmen multimodaler psychodynamischer Behandlungen [The relationship of functional and symptomatic changes after multimodal psychodynamic treatment]. Zeitschrift für Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie, 69(3), 261–277. https://doi.org/10.13109/zptm.2023.69.3.261

Beutel, M. E., Krakau, L., Kaufhold, J., Bahrke, U., Grabhorn, A., Hautzinger, M., Fiedler, G., Kallenbach‐Kaminski, L., Ernst, M., Rüger, B., & Leuzinger‐Bohleber, M. (2022). Recovery from chronic depression and structural change: 5‐year outcomes after psychoanalytic and cognitive‐behavioural long‐term treatments (LAC depression study). Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, cpp.2793. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpp.2793

Ernst, M., Beutel, M. E., Zwerenz, R., & Krakau, L. (2022). Seeing the past in a new light: Change in reports of childhood abuse and neglect before and after inpatient psychotherapy and its relevance for change in depression symptoms. Psychotherapy Research, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/10503307.2022.2088313

Krakau, L., Tibubos, A. N., Beutel, M. E., Ehrenthal, J. C., Gieler, U., & Brähler, E. (2021). Personality functioning as a mediator of adult mental health following child maltreatment. Journal of Affective Disorders, 291, 126–134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2021.05.006

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