Manfred Döpfner

Manfred Döpfner (born September 26, 1955 in Lauda ) is a German university professor , qualified psychologist , psychotherapist and author . He is considered an expert in the field of attention deficit / hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

Life

Manfred Döpfner graduated from the technical high school in Bad Mergentheim in 1974 . In the same year he began studying psychology at the University of Mannheim , which he graduated with a diploma in 1981 . 1990 doctorate Döpfner Doctor of Human Biology (Dr. sc. Hum.) At the Medical Faculty of the University of Heidelberg . 1998 habilitation he at the Medical Faculty of the University of Cologne and received the instructor for the subject psychopathology and psychotherapy of children and adolescents . In 1999 he was licensed as a psychological psychotherapist and as a child and adolescent psychotherapist .

From 1982 to 1988, Döpfner worked as a research assistant at the Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinic at the Central Institute for Mental Health at Heidelberg University in Mannheim.

Currently (as of February 2014) he is a senior psychologist at the clinic and polyclinic for psychiatry and psychotherapy of children and adolescents at the University of Cologne and as a university professor for psychotherapy in child and adolescent psychiatry at the Cologne University Hospital . He is also active as a psychological psychotherapist and child and adolescent psychotherapist, head of training at the training institute for behavior therapy in children and adolescents at the Cologne University Hospital (AKiP) and scientific director of the Cologne Institute of the Christoph Dornier Foundation for Clinical Psychology . He is also a scientific reviewer for child and adolescent behavior therapy and the like. a. of the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians and ad hoc reviewer for numerous scientific journals such as the magazine for educational psychology . Döpfner is the managing director of the management group of the Central ADHD Network, University Hospital Cologne.

Döpfner funded numerous research projects with third-party funds . His main research interests are the epidemiology of mental disorders as well as the development and evaluation of psychodiagnostic procedures and psychotherapeutic interventions, in particular for attention deficit / hyperactivity disorders (ADHD), anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorders , tic disorders and depressive disorders in childhood and adolescence.

Döpfner is married and has three children.

Works

Döpfner is the author of specialist and non-fiction books as well as articles in specialist journals. A selection of his publications:

• With Gerd Lehmkuhl : The effectiveness of child and adolescent psychotherapy . In: Psychologische Rundschau , Volume 53, No. 4/2002, ISSN  0033-3042 , pp. 184-193.
• With Gerd Lehmkuhl: Evidence-based therapy for children and adolescents with attention deficit / hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) . In: Praxis der Kinderpsychologie und Kinderpsychiatrie , Vol. 51, No. 6/2002, pp. 419–440 (PDF; 11.7 MB) .
• With Anja Görtz-Dorten: Therapy program for children with aggressive behavior (THAV) . Hogrefe Verlag, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8017-2084-1 .
• With Stephanie Schürmann, Gerd Lehmkuhl: Wobble Peter and Defiant Head. Help for parents with ADHD symptoms, hyperkinetic and oppositional behavior . 4th, revised. Edition. Beltz, Weinheim 2011, ISBN 978-3-621-27821-8 .
• With Franz Petermann : Diagnostics of mental disorders in children and adolescents (= guidelines for child and adolescent psychotherapy . Vol. 2). 3rd, revised. Edition. Hogrefe Verlag, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8017-2402-3 .
• With Jan Frölich, Gerd Lehmkuhl: Attention Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) (= Guide to Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy . Vol. 1). 2nd Edition. Hogrefe Verlag, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-8017-1939-5 .

Honors

• German Psychology Prize 2005 "for its outstanding achievements in the field of child and adolescent psychotherapy"

See also

• Multimodal therapy (child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy)

Web links

• Literature by Manfred Döpfner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Dirk Förger: RZ INTERVIEW with Professor Manfred Döpfner: ADHD has become a fad . In: Rhein-Zeitung , February 23, 2012.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Curriculum Vitae (PDF; 24 kB). Website of the University of Cologne, accessed on February 25, 2014.
2. ↑ Leadership group . Website of the Central ADHD Network, University Hospital Cologne, accessed on February 25, 2014.
3. ↑ University professor Dr. sc. hum. Manfred Döpfner, Dipl.-Psych. (PDF; 16 kB). Central ADHD Network website, accessed February 25, 2014.
4. ↑ German Psychology Prize 2005 to Prof. Dr. Manfred Döpfner .  ( 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. Website of the Association of German Psychologists , May 27, 2005. Accessed February 25, 2014.