Dr. Dipl.-Soz.päd. Alexandra von Tettenborn

Academic Advisor

Clinical Psychology for Children and Adolescence and Consulting Psychology

Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist (VT) | Deputy Head of the University Outpatient Clinic

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Research focus

Effects of psychological trauma and (societal) crises on different stages of life and transgenerational processes

COVID-19 pandemic in a clinical context and epidemiological phenomena: effects on the mental health and bonding quality of parents of babies and toddlers, with a special focus on the paternal role, as well as behavioural problems in children in their first year of life (CoviFam), the psychopathology of students (CoviStud) and clinical children and adolescents (PAuCPa)
Sexualised violence against minors in the context of the Catholic Church in the Diocese of Augsburg: psychological stress over the course of life, interpersonal factors and transgenerational effects

Competence development through experience-based learning in psychotherapist training

Prevention of childhood developmental disorders through interaction-oriented psychotherapy

Areas of responsibility

Academic advisor in the teaching and research unit Clinical Psychology of Children and Adolescents & Counselling Psychology
Deputy head of the Psychotherapeutic University Outpatient Clinic for Babies, Children, Adolescents and (Expectant) Parents, LMU Munich
Implementation of the Master's programme ‘Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy’ with a focus on Clinical Psychology of Childhood and Adolescence; in particular, conception, organisation and teaching of the sub-area of experience-based learning (experience-based diagnostics and intervention) using simulation patients

Professional career

Since 02/2024: Academic advisor
2021-2024: Research assistant
as part of the Master's programme in Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy with a focus on Clinical Psychology of Children and Adolescents, LMU Munich: teaching, training and curriculum design in the licensure programme
Since 2020: Deputy Head
Psychotherapeutic University Outpatient Clinic for Babies, Children, Adolescents and (Expectant) Parents, LMU Munich
2018-2020: Organisation of the ‘Special Psychotrauma Therapy’ curriculum
Chair of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, LMU Munich

Since 2017: Research assistant
Teaching and Research Unit for Clinical Psychology of Childhood and Adolescence & Counselling Psychology, LMU Munich
Psychotherapeutic University Outpatient Clinic for Babies, Children, Adolescents and (Expectant) Parents
2017-2021: Research assistant
Munich University Institute for Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training (MUNIK)
2016-2017: Research assistant
Teaching and Research Unit for Clinical Psychology of Childhood and Adolescence & Counselling Psychology, LMU Munich
2012-2015: Head of Intervention Centre
for the ‘Safe Oktoberfest for Girls and Women’ campaign (Munich Women's Emergency Hotline), press and public relations
Since 2011: Therapeutic and counselling work
in the field of psychological trauma and violence

Academic background and additional qualifications

2023: Doctorate in Psychology (Dr. phil.), LMU Munich
2021: Certification in Video Intervention Therapy (VIT) according to George Downing, PhD
2018: Licence to practise as a child and adolescent psychotherapist
(behavioural therapy, vfkv Training Institute Munich)

Additional training in group psychotherapy
2012: Certification as a therapist for psychotraumatology and trauma therapy (zptn)

2005-2010: Studied social work
Catholic University of Applied Sciences Munich, degree: Dipl.-Sozialpäd. (FH)

University teaching

Winter Term 2023/24: „Störungs- und Verfahrenslehre im Kindes- und Jugendalter“, KLIPPT, Seminar. München: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Clinical Psychology for Children and Adolescence and Consulting Psychology
Summer Term 2019: „Vertiefung Klinische Psychologie III“, Schulpsychologie, Seminar. München: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Clinical Psychology for Children and Adolescence and Consulting Psychology
Since Summer Term 2018: „Klinisch-psychologische Störungsbilder bei Kindern- und Jugendlichen 2“, UK. München: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Clinical Psychology for Children and Adolescence and Consulting Psychology
(co-lecturer)
Since Winter Term 2017/18: „Klinisch-psychologische Störungsbilder bei Kindern- und Jugendlichen 1“, UK. München: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Clinical Psychology for Children and Adolescence and Consulting Psychology (co-lecturer)

Winter Term 2017/18: „Seminar 1 Spezialthema“ (Psychische Störungen im Kindes- und Jugendalter), Seminar. München: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Lehrstuhl Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie.
Since summer semester 2017: Mitwirkung an der Vorlesung „Klinische Psychologie des Kindes- und Jugendalters“, Schulpsychologie. München: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Clinical Psychology for Children and Adolescence and Consulting Psychology

Selected external training courses and lectures

2024: Child and adolescent psychotherapy [lecture]. Charlotte Fresenius University of Applied Sciences, Munich.
Since 2022: Psychotherapy for mothers with infants and toddlers – ‘Interaction-centred interventions in the context of maternal and/or child psychopathologies’ [workshop, with Prof. Dr. Corinna Reck]. East German Chamber of Psychotherapists, Leipzig.
2022: From interactional dance in the early parent-child dyad to the therapeutic relationship – What can we learn from early childhood interaction research for psychotherapy [Seminar, with Prof. Dr. Corinna Reck]? 19th Langeoog Week of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Lower Saxony Medical Association, Langeoog.

Parental stress, behavioural problems in children and therapeutic challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic [working group, with Prof. Dr. Corinna Reck]. 34th Annual Conference of the Munich Working Group for Psychoanalysis – Psychoanalysis and social development in the shadow of the pandemic, Herrsching.

Depression and anxiety disorders in the postpartum period. Video intervention therapy. Digital consultation hours for professionals (with Prof. Dr. Corinna Reck): Support and care for infants and young children with parents suffering from mental illness and addiction. Ulm University Hospital.
Since 2018: Traumatised children and adolescents [continuing education]. IMMA e.V., Munich.

Lecturer at the university training institutes MUNIK and MUNIP (topics: treatment of children and adolescents, experience-based diagnostics and intervention)

Publications

von Tettenborn, A. (2023): Mental health and psychosocial relations in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: investigation of maternal, paternal, young children, and student populations. Dissertation, LMU München: Fakultät für Psychologie und Pädagogik. DOI: 10.5282/edoc.32185
Kaubisch, L., Reck, C., von Tettenborn, A., & Woll, C. F. J. (2022). The COVID-19 Pan-demic as a traumatic event and the associated psychological impact on families - A Systematic Review. Journal of Affective Disorders. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2022.08.109
von Tettenborn, A.*, Popp, L.*, Zietlow, A.-L., Woll, C. F. J., Marx, A. K. G., Nonnenmacher, N., Kretz-Bünese, T., Hagl, M., Müller, M.*, & Reck, C.* (2022). Kindliche Verhaltensauffälligkeiten im ersten Lebensjahr und mütterliche Belastung in der Zeit der COVID-19-Pandemie. Kindheit und Entwicklung, 31(2), 81-90. https://doi.org/10.1026/0942-5403/a000373 [*geteilte Autor:innenschaft]
Reck, C., von Tettenborn, A., & Hagl, M. (2022). Interaktionszentrierte Eltern-Kind-Therapie bei postpartalen Depressionen und Angsterkrankungen. Schweizer Zeitschrift für Psychiatrie & Neurologie, 1/2022, 18-1. https://www.psy.lmu.de/pbi/aktuelles/interaktionsz-e-k-therapie/interaktionsz-e-k-therapie.pdf (PDF, 229 KB)
Ehrenthal, J. C., Clauss, J., von Tettenborn, A., & Reck, C. (2021). Experience-based competency training in child and adolescent psychotherapy. Zeitschrift für Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie, 50(3-4), 168-178. https://doi.org/10.1026/1616-3443/a000635

Reck, C. & von Tettenborn, A. (2021). Schwangerschaft, elterliche Belastung, kindliche Verhaltensauffälligkeiten und therapeutische Herausforderungen zur Zeit der Covid-19-Pandemie. 9. Netzwerktreffen „Frühe Kindheit“, Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
Reck, C. & von Tettenborn, A. (2021). Elterliche Belastung, kindliche Verhaltensauffälligkeiten und therapeutische Herausforderungen zur Zeit der Covid-19-Pandemie. Integration in der Psychotherapie, Bregenz, Österreich.
Reck, C., von Tettenborn, A., Ghezih, S., Woll, C., Marx, A. K. G., Nonnenmacher, N., & Zietlow, A.-L. (2021). How are German families feeling during the COVID-19 pandemic? Determination of depression rates and perceived stress in the CoviFam study. 52nd Interna-tional Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR), Heidelberg.
Reck, C., von Tettenborn, A., Ghezih, S., Woll, C., Marx, A. K. G., Nonnenmacher, N., Müller, M., & Zietlow, A.-L. (2021). CoviFam – Stresserleben und Depressivität in Familien mit Kleinkindern während der Covid-19-Pandemie. 38. Symposium der Fachgruppe Klinische Psychologie der DGPs in Mannheim.

10.04.2024

›Generation Corona‹ vor großer Aufgabe: ›Beginnen zu begreifen, was Pandemie hinterlassen hat‹ ('Generation Corona' faces a major challenge: “Beginning to understand what the pandemic has left behind”)

For the article “Generation Corona faces a major challenge: Beginning to understand what the pandemic has left behind”, dated 10 April 2024, Lukas Schierlinger conducted an interview with Dr Alexandra von Tettenborn, which was published in Merkur.
The interview can be found at this link.
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28.04.2022

"Psychische Probleme in der Pandemie - 'Signalisieren Sie Offenheit!'" (‘Mental health issues during the pandemic – “Be open about it!”’)

Child and adolescent psychotherapist and research assistant Alexandra von Tettenborn gave an interview to the specialist magazine ‘Pädiatrie’ published by Springer Medizin Verlag on the subject of mental health issues in children and adolescents during the pandemic. You can read the interview in the following file: ‘Mental health issues during the pandemic – “Signal openness!”‘.

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third-party funded projects

Participatory mixed methods study (Prof. Dr. Corinna Reck, PD Dr. Tobias Schuwerk, Dr. Alexandra von Tettenborn and Dr. Mitho Müller, in cooperation with Dr. Lukka Popp, Ruhr University Bochum), initiated and supported by the Independent Commission for the Investigation of Abuse and the Independent Advisory Board for Victims in the Diocese of Augsburg; Grant agreement from the Diocese of Augsburg in the amount of €477,187 over a period of two years.