Prof. Dr. Aleksandra Kaurin
Chair of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology and Psychotherapy
Director of psychotherapy outpatient clinic for children and adolescents
Email: kaurin[at]uni-wuppertal.de
Tel.: 0202-439 5505
Room: RG3.03.027
For therapy inquiries or information for patients, please contact our Child and Adolescent Psychotherapeutic University Outpatient Clinic.
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CV (last updated 2024-02-27)
List of publications (last updated 2024-02-27)
Since December 2022, I am Chair of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology and Psychotherapy and Director of the Psychology Outpatient Clinic for Children and Adolescents. I am trained as a clinical psychologist and have experience working with children, adolescents, adults, and families. This experience continuously exerts an important influence on my research and teaching.
My reserach is informed by developmental, personality and clinical psychology and motivated by the notion that interpersonal experiences represent key moments through which development moves.
I study socio-emotional dysregulation in children and adolescents as well as their functional manifestations in daily life via ambulatory assessment methods (Kaurin et al., 2022 (preprint); Kaurin et al., 2022, Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science; Wright & Kaurin, 2020. Psychopathology; Kaurin et al., 2022, Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment; Kaurin et al., 2020, Affective Science).
I am particularly interested in how close relationships such as patterns of parent-child interaction (Woody, Kaurin et al., 2021, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry) or daily peer contacts (Kaurin et al., 2022, preprint) as well as experiences of social exclusion or minoritization (e.g., discrimination related to racism) affect youth’s coping abilities momentarily and prospectively.
A large portion of my work is dedicated to interpersonal and affective processes associated with self-harm in from late childhood to adolescence (Kaurin et al., 2020, Psych Medicine), and how real-time monitoring techniques can be used to provide precise, developmentally sensitive and potentially personalized predictions of risk and resilience (Kaurin et al., 2022, Behaviour Research and Therapy; Tsypes, Kaurin et al., 2022, Journal of Psychiatric Research).
I study these processes and structures across different timescales, in a diverse range of patterns of behavior, emotion, and (neuro)physiology, how they change during critical transitions in our development (i.e., heterotypic continuity) such as late childhood or adolescence, and am interested in statistical methods for analyzing intensive longitudinal data.
Education and Academic Positions
| since 12/2022 | Full Professor (W3), Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Wuppertal |
| since 12/2022 | Director, Psychology Outpatient Clinic for Children and Adolescents, University of Wuppertal |
| 2022 | declined competing offer (Full Professorship, W3) from University of Hamburg |
| 04/2021 – 11/2022 | Assistant Professor (W1, Tenure Track), Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychology, Department of Psychology and Psychotherapy, Witten/Herdecke University |
| 2021 | Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim |
| 08/2019 – 03/2021 | Postdoctoral Researcher, Personality Processes and Outcomes Laboratory, PI: Dr. Aidan Wright, University of Pittsburgh |
| 06/2019 – 08/2019 | Postdoctoral Researcher, Cognitive and Behavioral Mechanisms of Resilience Area, Leibniz Institute for Resilience Research Mainz |
| 2019 | PhD in Clinical Psychology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany |
| 2019 | Licensed Clinical Psychologist |
| 2017 | Fulbright funded Visiting Graduate Student, University of California, Riverside, USA and National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, USA Mood Brain and Development Unit |
| 2015 | Master of Science in Clinical Psychology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany |
| 2014 | Visiting Graduate Student, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neurosciences, King’s College London, UK, PI: Argyris Stringaris |
| 2012 | Bachelor of Science in Psychology, Trier University, Germany; Minor: Cultural Anthropology |
Current funding
Collaborators
Olivia J. Kirtley, KU Leuven
Aidan G. C. Wright, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, USA
Eisenberg Family Depression Center, University of Michigan, USA
Alexandre Y. Dombrovski, University of Pittsburgh
Jennifer Silk, University of Pittsburgh
Tina Goldstein, University of Pittsburgh
Michael N. Hallquist, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Barbara De Clercq, Ghent University
Editorial work
ab 01/2023, Associate Editor, Clinical Psychological Science
seit 01/2022, Editorial Board, European Journal of Personality
seit 01/2022, Editorial Board, Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment
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(last updated: 01/20/23)
Last modified: 18.09.2024
