New professor of clinical child and adolescence psychology - Welcome, Prof. Anna-Lena Zietlow!

Prof. Dr. Anna-Lena Zietlow joined the Technische Universität Dresden in October 2022 as professor for Clinical Child and Adolescence Psychology.

She studied psychology at Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg and Pontificia Universidad Católica in Santiago de Chile. From 2011 until 2015 she was a research assistant at the Department of General Psychiatry at University Hospital Heidelberg. After obtaining her doctoral degree at Heidelberg University in 2015, she joined the Institute of Medical Psychology at Heidelberg University Hospital as post-doctoral research associate. From 2017 on she headed the research group Eltern-Kind-Studien (ElKi) (parent-child-studies). In 2020 she was appointed Assistant Professor for Clinical Psychology at the University of Mannheim and in 2022 she became Professor for Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology and Psychotherapy at the University of Greifswald. She is a board-licensed psychotherapist (CBT) for children, adolescents, and adults.

Her research focuses on how parental mental disorders, early relationship and interaction experiences, psychobiological correlates, and family environmental factors interact to influence children´s development (particularly socio- emotional as well as mental health trajectories). In this context, she is particularly interested in depression, anxiety and stress related disorders, behavioral patterns (parent-child interaction, couple interaction, developmental paradigms), neuroendocrine correlates (e.g., cortisol and oxytocin), and peripheral physiological markers (e.g., HRV). She uses multi-modal assessment through questionnaires and interview data, ecological momentary assessment, a variety of social interaction paradigms, developmental tasks as well as imaging (fMRI) techniques and more recently genetic and epigenetic analyses as well.