EEKIP-Lab

Clinical Psychology of Childhood and Adolescence (Prof. Dr. Corinna Reck) & Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy (Prof. Dr. Thomas Ehring)

EEKIP-Laboratory (Real-Time Parent-Child Interaction Paradigms)

The research focus of "Clinical Psychology of Childhood and Adolescence" includes the analysis of interactional behavior between parents and their children between the ages of 3 months and 12 years with the aim of uncovering risk and protective factors in the intergenerational transmission of mental disorders. These will be used to develop parent-child-centered diagnostic and intervention measures, which will be tested for prevention and intervention effects in the LMU University Outpatient Clinic for Children and Adolescents (Head: Prof. Dr. Corinna Reck). For this purpose, interaction behavior is videographed in standardized laboratory-based behavioral observations and subsequently coded for manualized specific behavioral and affective categories. These are related to parent and child psychopathology as well as biological and developmental parameters.
The research focus of "Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy" includes, on the one hand, the etiology and treatment of mental disorders as a consequence of traumatic life events, and, on the other hand, the investigation of transdiagnostically relevant processes (including emotion recognition & regulation) for the development and maintenance of mental disorders characterized by deficient emotional processing (e.g., depression). Aims include further development and validation of psychotherapeutic interventions for patients with (complex) trauma sequelae. The use of video material offers the possibility to capture significant additional parameters of emotional and interactional processes in real time through behavioral observation and to relate them to psychophysiological and cognitive measures. This is especially promising for the investigation of emotional reactions, interpersonal abnormalities and emotion regulation.