Lea Wölflein (née Krumpholtz), M. Sc. Psych.
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Lea Wölflein (geb. Krumpholtz) M. Sc. Psych.
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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
Lea Wölflein has been a PhD student at the chair of clinical child and adolescent psychology since January 2024. In her research, she is primarily interested in transmission factors of parental psychopathologies, especially the role of early parent-child interactions. She is investigating behavioral as well as physiological and endocrinological measures and their potential to function as early indicators of child development. For her doctoral project, she has been awarded the Maria Reiche Doctoral Fellowship at TU Dresden.
Research interests
- Transmission factors of parental psychopathology, especially peripartum mental disorders
- Early parent-child interaction
- Measures of synchrony during social interactions in infancy, especially physiological measures such as heart rate variability
- Multimodal indicators of child development during early parent-infant interactions
Education
| starting 2024 | Doctoral student, Chair of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany |
| since 2022 | Training as psychological psychotherapist, guideline procedure behavioral therapy, Center for Psychological Psychotherapy (ZPP) Mannheim, Germany |
| 2020 - 2022 | M.Sc. Cognitive and Clinical Psychology, University of Mannheim (with distinction) |
| 2016 - 2020 | B.Sc. Psychology, University of Mannheim (with distinction) |
Academic experience
| 2021 - 2022 | Scientific assistance in the preparation of the Master's thesis, Parent-Child Studies, Institute of Medical Psychology at Heidelberg University Hospital |
| 2019 | Research semester (Erasmus + Traineeship) Cardiff University, School of Psychology, Wales |
| 2018 – 2022 | Research Assistant, Chair of Cognitive Psychology and Differential Psychology, University of Mannheim |
Awards, prizes and scholarships
| June 2024 | Poster Prize, 3rd German Psychotherapy Congress (3.DPK), German Psychological Society (DGPs), Division of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy |
| Since January 2024 |
Maria Reiche Doctoral Fellowships (Scholarship Program for the Promotion of Early-Career Female Scientists of TU Dresden), TU Dresden |
| 2023 | Otto-Selz Prize for the best master's thesis in psychology, University of Mannheim, awarded by R.A.M. |
