Prof. Dr. Anna-Lena Zietlow
Prof. Dr. Anna-Lena Zietlow
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Chair of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology
Chair of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology
Visiting address:
Professur für Klinische Kinder- und Jugendpsychologie Chemnitzer Straße 46a
01187 Dresden
Prof. Dr. Anna-Lena Zietlow joined the Technische Universität Dresden in October 2022 as professor for Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology.
Short biography
Anna-Lena Zietlow studied psychology at Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg and Pontificia Universidad Católica in Santiago de Chile. From 2011 to 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. Since October 2022, she is professor for Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology at TU Dresden. She is a board-licensed psychotherapist (CBT) for children, adolescents, and adults.
Research interests
Prof. Zietlow's 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.
Education
| 2020 | Extended license in child and adolescent psychotherapy |
| 03/2017 - 03/2020 | Psychotherapeutic work in the outpatient clinic of the Institute of Medical Psychology and Consultant Psychologist, University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery |
| 2017 | Licence to practise psychological psychotherapy (behavioural therapy) |
| 2015 | PhD, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Germany |
| 2012 - 2017 | Training to become a Psychological Psychotherapist (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy), Center for Psychological Psychotherapy (ZPP), University Heidelberg, Germany |
| 2011 | Diploma in Psychology, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Germany |
Academic experience
| Since 10/2022 | Professor of the Chair of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany |
| 03/2022 - 09/2022 | Professor of the Chair of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology and Psychotherapy, Universität Greifswald. Germany |
| 04/2020 - 02/2022 | Assistant Professor for Clinical Psychology at the University of Mannheim, Germany |
| 10/2019 - 03/2020 | Deputy Chairperson in the winter semester 2019/20 for Medical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Institute for Medical Psychology at the University Hospital Heidelberg, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Germany (stood in for Prof. Dr. Beate Ditzen) |
| 03/2019 - 09/2019 | Parental leave |
| 2017 - 2020 | Research Group Leader “Parent-Child Studies” (ElKi) at the Center for Psychosocial Medicine, Clinic for General Psychiatry, University Hospital Heidelberg, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Germany |
| 2011 - 2020 | Research Assistant, Department of General Psychiatry and Institute for Medical Psychology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Germany |
