Wilfried Echterhoff
Wilfried Echterhoff (born June 20, 1942 in Witten ) is a German psychologist and adjunct professor at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal .
Live and act
Echterhoff is the second child of the married couple Friedrich and Ella Echterhoff. After graduating from high school in natural sciences, he studied psychology at the University of Cologne and the University of Vienna . After graduating as a psychologist in 1967, he worked for the German Development Service at headquarters and as a regional representative in West Cameroon . In 1970 he took over the leadership of the university-related research group for programmed learning (FPL) in Cologne, in which, among other things, initial attempts at school television were evaluated.
Echterhoff in 1972 with a thesis on "methods for measuring learning success" in Cologne Dr. rer. nat. PhD. He was a lecturer at the University of Düsseldorf and the University of Bochum in the field of educational psychology . From 1974 to 1976 he was a member of the founding committee of the Distance University in Hagen .
In 1991 he completed his habilitation at the University of Wuppertal on the subject of "Building experience for road users" and received the license to teach in the field of psychology. In 1996 he became an adjunct professor there.
From 1970 on, Echterhoff was head of various research groups and research institutes, of public and private research and development contracts as well as a member of expert committees and advisory groups of the Federal Government and the European Commission .
Today Echterhoff continues to teach at the University of Wuppertal and also at the University of Koblenz-Landau (Campus Koblenz). In 2013, he initiated the German-Kenyan cooperation between the University of Koblenz-Landau, the University of Nairobi and the United States International University of Africa in Nairobi on the topic of personality, experience and action differences between cultures based on the Big Five personality model .
Echterhoff published more than 150 scientific papers.
Research focus and other activities
Echterhoff's main areas of activity are behavioral research (traffic, health, teaching and learning), development aid and policy advice ; his scientific focus in the field of empirical research on the formation of experience and behavior change as a result of the interaction of personality and environment.
Since the 1970s, Echterhoff has been preparing a number of research proposals for various funding agencies on education and mobility research and also on basic research. In addition, commissioned research by German federal ministries and the European Union was carried out , primarily to improve the participation of disabled people in life.
From 1976 he took over the management of the research areas psychology, pedagogy and sociology in the newly established accident research department of the Federal Highway Research Institute . In the German Society for Psychology he was a co-founder of the specialist group "Educational Psychology".
From 1987 to 1988 he worked in Indonesia on behalf of the World Bank, among other things, on the pedagogical concepts and the learning materials for driving school training for all driving license classes.
Until 1994 he carried out research projects on the subjects of traffic education for secondary level I, learning from accidents, model learning, and the design of mobility systems for the disabled.
Echterhoff founded the Institute for Psychological Accident Aftercare (ipu) in Cologne in 1994 and later the Institute for Psychological Health Promotion (ipg) and the Project Office for Mobility and Transport (PMV). Together with the Cologne transport company and the trade association for trams, underground trains and railways, he developed and tested the psychological accident management system known as the “Cologne Model”, which formed the basis for dealing with and treating victims of extreme events in the world of work resulted in the psychotherapist procedure of the German Social Accident Insurance . In addition, there were activities in the management of the Society for Research on the Causes of Traffic Accidents (GUVU), as a member of commissions of the German Federal Government (e.g. 3rd report on the elderly ), on mobility concepts of the European Union as well as traffic safety concepts of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and for victim protection in the state of North Rhine -Westphalia . Echterhoff has been a member of the Society for the study of structural policy issues in the context of the German Bundestag since the 1980s. Together with other participants, he received a sponsorship award from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research in 1998 for the design of the “Rhein-Ruhr-Wupper” mobility project.
His psychotherapeutic work essentially began with the treatment of traffic accident victims and led to the development and testing of referential therapy on the technical basis of control psychology ( control conviction ). Echterhoff was recognized by the Chamber of Psychotherapists in North Rhine-Westphalia as a psychological expert in the field of social law and family law and as a leading emergency psychotherapist .
In 2002 he founded the German Traffic Experts Day (VET), and in 2011 he was a co-founder of the German umbrella association Verkehrsunfall-Opferhilfe Deutschland (VOD).
Private
Echterhoff has three children from his first marriage. Since 1990 he was married to the qualified librarian Karin Volz († 2010) for the second time .
Web links
- Literature by and about Wilfried Echterhoff in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Wilfried Echterhoff in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Wilfried Echterhoff's website with a list of publications
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Professor Dr. Wilfried Echterhoff. Retrieved July 14, 2020 .
- ↑ apl. Prof. Dr. Wilfried Echterhoff - Faculty of Human and Social Sciences Psychology - BERGISCHE UNIVERSITÄT WUPPERTAL. Retrieved July 14, 2020 .
- ↑ Habilitations in Psychology - Faculty of Human and Social Sciences - BERGISCHE UNIVERSITÄT WUPPERTAL. Retrieved July 14, 2020 .
- ↑ Extraordinary professors - Faculty of Human and Social Sciences - BERGISCHE UNIVERSITÄT WUPPERTAL. Retrieved July 14, 2020 .
- ↑ apl. Prof. Dr. Wilfried Echterhoff - Faculty of Human and Social Sciences Psychology - BERGISCHE UNIVERSITÄT WUPPERTAL. Retrieved July 15, 2020 .
- ↑ Lecturer - University of Koblenz · Landau. Retrieved July 15, 2020 .
- ↑ Delegation of the Institute for Psychology on the trail of the Big Five - University of Koblenz · Landau. Retrieved July 15, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c Prof. Dr. Wilfried Echterhoff: Prof. Dr. Wilfried Echterhoff. Retrieved July 15, 2020 .
- ↑ OPUS 4 | Search. Retrieved July 14, 2020 .
- ↑ DGPs: 20 years specialist group. Retrieved July 14, 2020 .
- ↑ ipu | Institute for Psychological Accident Aftercare - ipg | Institute for Psychological Health Promotion. Retrieved July 14, 2020 .
- ↑ Project Office Mobility and Transport. Retrieved July 14, 2020 .
- ↑ The Cologne Model - Psychological Accident Management - ipu, ipg. Retrieved July 14, 2020 .
- ↑ Yumpu.com: 50 YEARS GUVU How it all started: A look at history. Retrieved July 14, 2020 .
- ↑ German Bundestag: Printed matter 13/9750 from January 28, 1998. January 28, 1998, accessed July 15, 2020 .
- ↑ Unclassified OCDE / GD (97) 153. 1997, accessed July 15, 2020 .
- ↑ Annual report 2017 of the VOD. Traffic accident victims' aid Germany eV, 2017, accessed on July 15, 2020 .
- ^ Members. Retrieved July 15, 2020 .
- ↑ Professor Dr. Wilfried Echterhoff. Retrieved July 14, 2020 .
- ↑ Psychotherapeutenkammer NRW: Family law and child and youth welfare - PP. Retrieved July 14, 2020 .
- ↑ German Traffic Expert Day 2019. 2019, accessed on July 15, 2020 .
- ↑ Annual report 2014 of the VOD. In: https://vod-ev.org/ . Traffic accident victim assistance Germany (VOD) eV, 2014, accessed on July 15, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Echterhoff, Wilfried |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German psychologist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 20, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Witten |