Our team members introduce themselves! - Part 2

PhD student Ines Brenner introduces herself

We would like to introduce you to the members of our chair team in a little more detail.

"At the beginning of 2019, I started working with Prof. Dr. Anna-Lena Zietlow: first as a research assistant, then as a master's student, and since March 2022 as a doctoral student. As part of my work as a research assistant, I mainly worked in the longitudinal research studies NeMuk and COMPARE, which were conducted at the Institute of Medical Psychology at Heidelberg University Hospital, among others. The intensive collaboration in the study implementation enabled me to gain a very good insight into the multifaceted field of parent-child research. In the context of my master's thesis, I was primarily concerned with the early quality of mother-infant interaction and the physiological regulatory capacity of infants in the context of peripartum depression and comorbid anxiety disorders. I find the study of transmission mechanisms of maternal psychopathology to their children very significant and in this context I see the area of interaction quality within a family as a significant research base. I find the use of various parent-child research methods such as heart rate variability measurement, standardized evaluation of family interactions using behavioral coding, parents' self-reports, and assessment of child development using validated tests particularly profitable. I am very happy to have found a great team with my interests at the TU Dresden and especially at the Chair of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, from which I can only benefit in my further scientific and personal career."