Brigitte A. Rollett

Brigitte A. Rollett (born October 9, 1934 in Graz ) is an Austrian psychologist and emeritus professor at the University of Vienna .

Life

Rollett studied psychology, education and philosophy at the University of Graz , in 1957 she received her doctorate. phil .; At the Psychological and Pedagogical Institute of the University of Graz, she worked as a study assistant at Ferdinand Weinhandl 's chair . After completing her psychotherapy training and her habilitation for the general subject psychology in 1964, also in Graz, she held professorships for educational psychology at the Osnabrück University of Education , the Kassel University and the Ruhr University Bochum . In 1979, Brigitte Rollett was appointed to succeed Sylvia Bayr-Klimpfinger as head of the department for developmental and educational psychology at the Institute for Psychology at the University of Vienna ; In addition, she became head of the “Center for Child, Youth and Family Psychological Intervention” affiliated with the department and a university kindergarten. Her retirement took place at the end of the academic year 2002/03.

Brigitte Rollett was visiting professor at the University of Friborg / Switzerland, she has held lectureships at the University of Klagenfurt and at the Sigmund Freud University in Vienna . In 1984 Brigitte Rollett organized the 34th Congress of the German Society for Psychology in Vienna . In 1993 she was founding president of the Austrian Society for Psychology (ÖGP) and the Federation of Austrian Associations of Psychologists in the International Union of Psychological Science . Rollett is also a member of the advisory board of BRAIN (= advice and information about special talents ), a talent diagnostic advice center under the direction of Prof. Dr. Detlef H. Rost at the Philipps University of Marburg .

Rollett is also president of the Society against Sect and Cult Dangers (GSK), founded in 1977, and works to educate people about the dangers that sects may pose . The managing director of the Federal Office for Sect Issues (Vienna), founded in 1998 , was a student with her, as was the managing director of the GSK, Martin Felinger.

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Brigitte Rollett's research focuses on psychological diagnostics, the topics of motivation and learning, learning therapy and the development of learning therapeutic methods in educational counseling and family development. In the effort avoidance test she developed in cooperation with Mathias Bartram, effort avoidance is postulated as an independent motive, but this can also be seen as a variant of the motive of fear of failure.

She was also known for her widely published work on autism . In this context, she also spoke out against the method of supported communication .

Honors

• 1964: Cardinal Innitzer Prize
• 1994: Great Silver Medals for Services to the Republic of Austria .

selected Writings

• Brigitte Rollett & Ursula Kastner-Koller (2007). Practice book autism for parents, educators, teachers and therapists. Munich: Elsevier.
• Brigitte Rollett (ed.). (2004). Current studies on religious development. Lengerich: Pabst.
• Brigitte Rollett & Harald Werneck (eds.). (2002). Clinical Developmental Psychology of the Family. Göttingen: Hogrefe.
• Brigitte A. Rollett & Mathias Bartram (1998). Effort avoidance test - AVT (3rd, revised edition). Göttingen: Hogrefe.
• Brigitte Rollett (1994). Introduction to educational psychology and its developmental principles. WUV.
• Brigitte Rollett (1990). New research on the problem of the development of talent (revised Berta Benz lecture, held on January 22, 1988 at the University of Mannheim). Ladenburg: Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz Foundation.
• Brigitte Rollett & Mathias Bartram (1988). Introduction to hierarchical cluster analysis for psychologists, educators and sociologists. Stuttgart: Velcro-Cotta.
• Brigitte Rollett (ed.). (1984). Innovation in Psychological Research. Abstract volume: 34th Congress of the German Society for Psychology 1984. Vienna: University.
• Brigitte Rollett (1970). Practice and theory of programmed teaching. Selected presentations from the 6th International Symposium of the Society for Programmed Instruction. Stuttgart: Velcro.
• Brigitte Rollett (1970). Perspectives on programmed teaching. Vienna: Austrian federal publisher for teaching, science and art.

Literature on Rollett

• Christiane Spiel (1996). Motivation and learning from the perspective of lifelong development: Festschrift for Brigitte A. Rollett. Münster: Waxmann.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gerhard H. Fischer : Half a century history of the institute for psychology. ( Memento of the original from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 141 kB)  
2. ^ Brigitte Rollett: On the history of the Austrian Society for Psychology. ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ The talent diagnosis advice center BRAIN  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ^ Homepage of the Society against Sectarian and Cult Dangers
5. ↑ Brigitte Rollett & Martin Felinger. Endangerment of sects and cults in children and young people. (PDF; 1.7 MB)
6. ↑ Resolution on Supported Communication. ( Memento of the original from August 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Web links

• Literature by and about Brigitte A. Rollett in the catalog of the German National Library