Günter Esser

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Günter Esser (born April 11, 1950 in Denklingen (Reichshof) ) is a German psychologist and child and adolescent psychotherapist .

overview

His research, teaching and practice activities focus on clinical psychology and psychotherapy of children and adolescents. His main scientific and practical transfer services he provided for clinical psychology, developmental psychology, psychotherapy as well as pediatrics and child and adolescent psychiatry.

Scientific career

After graduating from high school in Bad Nauheim in 1968, he began to study psychology at the University of Gießen in the same year. After graduating with distinction in 1973, he completed his community service from 1973 to 1975 at the Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinic at the University of Frankfurt, where he immediately began his scientific career.

On January 1, 1976, he moved to the Central Institute for Mental Health in Mannheim. In 1980 he received his doctorate from the University of Mannheim and from April 1, 1982 took over the management of the working group on neuropsychology of children and adolescents. During his time in Mannheim, he also completed his habilitation in clinical psychology at the University of Heidelberg in 1990. Of central importance for his academic career is the conception of the Mannheim longitudinal studies together with Martin H. Schmidt , which since 1978 has been one of the most important child psychology studies both nationally and internationally belong. The Mannheim Kurpfalz Survey and the Mannheim Risk Children Study are of outstanding importance for epidemiological and developmental psychopathological research, so that by 2010 they had already produced a three-digit number of peer-reviewed publications.

On January 1, 1995 he became professor for clinical psychology / psychotherapy at the University of Potsdam . Under his leadership, Potsdam became a center for child and adolescent psychology and psychotherapy. Since 1998 he has been director of the Academy for Psychotherapy and Intervention Research at the University of Potsdam (API) and also heads the Psychological-Psychotherapeutic Outpatient Clinic (PPA) and the Center for Learning Therapy (ZLT) of the Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy Department. The research and teaching clinic and the training clinic in Potsdam became the largest outpatient psychotherapeutic care facility in the state of Brandenburg and also of all university psychotherapeutic outpatient clinics in Germany. In addition to his university teaching activities in the psychology degree course and in teacher training for the state of Brandenburg, he works at the API as a supervisor and leads a large number of theory seminars for prospective child and adolescent psychotherapists. The textbook on clinical psychology and psychotherapy of children and adolescents published by him, the third edition of which was published in 2008, has formed the basis for theoretical events during studies and in psychotherapy training. Within the university self-administration, Günter Esser took over the chairmanship of the ethics committee of the University of Potsdam in 2007 after two terms as managing director of the institute for psychology and many years of work on the faculty council, to which he had been a member for many years.

Improving prevention and care

Since 1998 he has been on the board of the Federal Association for Behavioral Therapy in Children and Adolescents (BVKJ) based in Potsdam and was its founding chairman from 1998 to 2007. From 1999 to 2007 he was co-editor of the journal “Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy” and in 2008 was the organizer of the 26th symposium of the specialist group on clinical psychology and psychotherapy of the German Society for Psychology . In 2007 he received the Meinhard von Pfaundler Medal from the professional association of paediatricians for his interdisciplinary work and numerous advanced training events for paediatricians in pediatrics and child and adolescent psychiatry .

Memberships

  • Member of the Scientific Advisory Board on Psychotherapy for Germany,
  • Member of the Expert Commission for Psychological Psychotherapy and Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy at the Institute for Medical and Pharmaceutical Examination Questions (IMPP),
  • Expert in the creation of the parents' folder of the Federal Center for Health Education,
  • Expert in the preparation of the research report psychotherapy and the conclusions to be drawn from it.
  • Member of the scientific advisory board of the teaching institutes for orthography and language competence (LOS)

research

In the research area to improve the prevention and care of children and adolescents, Günter Esser led numerous research projects and has been involved in structured doctoral training since 2007. Since 2007 he has been the head of the PhD program Developmental Psychopathology and Evidence based Intervention . In 2010 he is the lead applicant of a DFG graduate college on the topic of intrapersonal development risks in childhood and adolescence in a longitudinal view . Research areas in addition to several current projects are:

  • Longitudinal epidemiological and developmental psychopathological research,
  • Development of diagnostic tools,
  • Evidence-based prevention and therapy,
  • Basic and neuroscientific research and
  • Disorder-specific research with a focus on:
  • Potsdam longitudinal study to record the linguistic and mathematical level of development,
  • Evaluation of training for reading and spelling disorders

Publications

(Selection)

  • Textbook of clinical psychology and psychotherapy in children and adolescents . 3. Edition. Thieme, 2008, ISBN 9783131260833 .
  • with B. Blanz, B. Geisel and M. Laucht: Mannheimer Elterninterview (MEI), Beltz, 1989.
  • with R.-M. Stöhr: visuomotor school readiness test . Huber, 1990.
  • with A. Wyschkon and K. Ballaschk: Basic diagnosis of circumscribed developmental disorders in primary school age (BUEGA) . Hogrefe, 2008.
  • with A. Wyschkon: Potsdam-Illinois Test for Psycholinguistic Skills (P-ITPA) . Hogrefe, 2010.
  • with A. Wyschkon: Basic diagnosis of circumscribed developmental disorders in preschool age - Version II (BUEVA-II) . Hogrefe, 2012.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from January 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from July 16, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ http://www.psych.uni-potsdam.de/clinical/index-d.html
  4. ↑ http://www.bvkj.org/
personal data
SURNAME Esser, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Denklingen , Hesse