Günter Krampen

Günter Krampen (born December 5, 1950 in Koblenz ) is a German psychologist and psychotherapist . He is professor emeritus at the University of Trier and emeritus director of the Leibniz Center for Psychological Information and Documentation (ZPID).

Academic and professional career

After studying psychology at the University of Trier (1971–1976), Krampen initially worked as a research assistant in Trier , then from 1977 to 1981 as a research assistant at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg , where he received his doctorate in 1980. He returned to Trier, where he completed his habilitation in 1985 and was appointed extraordinary professor of psychology at the University of Trier in 1990 and full professor in 2004 (chair for clinical psychology, psychotherapy and science research).

Krampen was and is active in various management positions. From 2000 he set up the further training course in psychological psychotherapy at the University of Trier and was responsible for this as well as the affiliated psychotherapy outpatient clinic until 2009. In 2004 he succeeded Leo Montada as director of the Leibniz Center for Psychological Information and Documentation (ZPID). He held this office until June 30, 2017.

Krampen held visiting and substitute professorships at the universities of Friborg (Switzerland) , Munich and Berlin . He advised on the development of psychological courses in Luxembourg, where he has been an honorary professor since 1985 (since 2003 at the newly founded University of Luxembourg ).

Research priorities

Krampen’s research focuses on the basic subjects in personality and developmental psychology as well as in the application subjects in educational and clinical psychology .

The connection between basic and applied psychological research plays a central role in his work. It orientates itself u. a. on an action-theoretical partial model of personality and its developmental, health and clinical-psychological expansion to the approach of the trust triad, which consists of interpersonal trust, self and future trust. With reference to this, he developed psychodiagnostic methods for recording control and competence beliefs as well as hopelessness. He also published methods for recording creativity, the ability to concentrate and multilingualism in children as well as for evaluating the effects of psychotherapy and relaxation methods in adolescents and adults. In addition, Krampen is engaged in science studies , scientometry and the history of psychology.

Web links

• University of Trier: Department of Psychological Methodology - Prof. em. Dr. Günter Krampen. In: uni-trier.de. 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michael Bosnjak becomes the new director of the ZPID. In: leibniz-psychology.org. May 22, 2017. Retrieved February 6, 2019 . 
2. ^ ^{A b} Günter Krampen, author profile. In: psychauthors.de. May 22, 2017. Retrieved February 6, 2019 . 
3. ^ Günter Krampen, list of publications. In: psychauthors.de. Retrieved February 6, 2019 .