Herbert Scheithauer

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Herbert Scheithauer (right) in conversation with Manfred Günther , Kaiserbahnhof Potsdam , 2011

Herbert Scheithauer (born March 3, 1970 in Bremen ) is a German psychologist and university professor at the Free University of Berlin . He lives in Bremen and Berlin. The development scientist became known through several projects he helped develop to prevent violence in schools.

Life

After his community service , Scheithauer studied psychology and sociology at the University of Bremen from 1991 ; In 1998 he graduated with a diploma thesis "On the connection between depressive disorders, critical life events and problem-solving behavior in adolescents ". From 1999 he was then a research assistant at the Center for Clinical Psychology and Rehabilitation at the University of Bremen. From 2000 to 2001 he was a prevention specialist at the Bremen Child Protection Center of the German Child Protection Association, subject: school prevention. In 2003 he was at Franz Petermann Dr. phil. is doing her doctorate with a dissertation on “Development-oriented meta-analysis of gender-specific forms of aggressive behavior in children and adolescents”. He stayed at the Bremen Center as a post ‐ doc until he received a junior professorship for educational and developmental psychology at the Free University of Berlin in 2004 . Since 2010 he has been professor for developmental psychology and clinical psychology at the FU.

Services

In addition to research and teaching, which relates, among other things, to topics such as developmental psychopathology , biopsychosocial mechanisms of the development of pro- / dissocial behavior , biopsychosocial foundations of ontological development , promotion of social-emotional competence in educational institutions or prevention and clinical child and adolescent psychology , Scheithauer has in a short time presented several special projects on violence prevention in schools.

Programs

Projects (participation in currently implemented prevention programs ):

  • Papilio. The Papilio program (www.papilio.de) is a development-oriented program for the prevention of behavioral problems and the promotion of socio-emotional skills in kindergarten age.
  • Fair player. The fairplayer.manual program (www.fairplayer.de) is a manualized, structured preventive measure that is used alongside lessons to promote social skills and to prevent bullying.
  • Fairplayer.sport. The fairplayer.sport program (www.fairplayer‐sport.de) is a manualized, structured preventive measure for working with youth teams, with the help of which trainers can impart and practice movement-oriented social and moral skills in their teams.
  • Leaking project. This is an empirical research project on school shootings and their announcements in German schools.
  • Netwass project. The prevention program Networks Against School Shootings (NETWASS), which emerged from the “Berlin Leaking Project”, is being evaluated in schools in three federal states , funded by the BMBF .
  • Media heroes. It is a program for the prevention of cyberbullying and the promotion of media skills, for integration into school lessons.

Memberships

  • since 2004 advisor to the German Forum for Crime Prevention Foundation (DFK), since 2008 advisory board there
  • since 2006 advisory board of the Medhochzwei publishing house (former psychotherapists publishing house)
  • since 2008 member of the advisory board of "BuddY eV", Düsseldorf
  • since 2008 member of the scientific advisory board in the project "Conception and evaluation of a modular prevention concept for children from families with addiction" ( Federal Ministry of Health )
  • since 2008 member of the European Network of Early Childhood Interventions
  • since 2009: ERASMUS representative (Luxembourg)

Awards

  • European Crime Prevention Award. ECPN for "Fairplayer" 2011.

Fonts

Scheithauer has so far published numerous journal articles, conference contributions and specialist book articles. He is a reviewer and editor of many professional journals and has published several programs to prevent violence in schools. The following selection concerns his monographs.

  • with H. Mayer, P. Heim, B. Barquero and U. Koglin: Papilio. A program for kindergartens for the primary prevention of behavioral problems and for the promotion of socio-emotional competence. 2nd Edition. beta ‐ Instituts Verlag, Augsburg 2007.
  • with C. Peter and S. Raith ‐ Kaudelka: Deaf parents - hearing children. CODA training program, with DVD. Beltz, Weinheim 2010.
  • with F. Petermann, M. Kusch and K. Niebank: Developmental Psychopathology . A textbook. Psychologie Verlags Union, Weinheim 1998.
  • with F. Petermann and K. Niebank (eds.): Risks in early childhood development. Developmental Psychopathology of the First Years of Life. Hogrefe, Göttingen 2000.
  • with F. Petermann and K. Niebank: Development Science . Developmental Psychology - Genetics - Neuropsychology. Springer, Berlin 2004.
  • with F. Petermann, U. Petermann and M. Nehrke: Aggressionsdiagnostik. Hogrefe, Göttingen 2000.
  • Aggressive behavior by boys and girls. Hogrefe, Göttingen 2003.
  • with R. Bondü: rampage and school shooting. Significance, background and prevention. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2011.
  • with HD Bull: fairplayer.manual: Promotion of social skills and moral courage - prevention of bullying and school violence. Theory and practice manual for working with young people and school classes. 3. Edition. niebank-rusch-Verlag, Bremen 2007.
  • with T. Hayer, K. Niebank (Ed.): Problem behavior and violence in adolescence. Forms of appearance, conditions of origin and possibilities of prevention. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2008.
  • with T. Hayer and F. Petermann: Bullying among schoolchildren - manifestations, risk conditions and intervention concepts. Hogrefe, Göttingen 2003.
  • with C. Rosenbach and K. Niebank: Success conditions for the prevention of interpersonal violence in children and adolescents. Expertise on behalf of the DFK Foundation, Berlin. 2nd Edition. German Crime Prevention Forum, Bonn 2008.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Herbert Scheithauer, Dietmar Heubrock : violence in German schools.
  2. ↑ Scheithauer on DeutschlandRadio "Nach Winnenden"
personal data
SURNAME Scheithauer, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychologist and violence prevention researcher
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen