Prof. Dr. phil. Svenja Taubner
Director
(Institute for Psychosocial Prevention)
Head of research group
(Competence development of healthcare professionals)
Medical/Professional background
- since January 2016
W3 Professorship for Psychosocial Prevention and Director of the Institute for Psychosocial Prevention at the University of Heidelberg
- September 2013 – December 2015
University Professor for Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy at the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt.
- September 2012 – August 2013
Parental leave
- April 2012 – August 2012
Substitute professor for clinical psychology at the University of Kassel, Institute of Psychology (substitute for Prof. Benecke)
- October 2010 – July 2013
Junior Professor for Developmental Psychopathology at the International Psychoanalytic University Berlin
- August 2008 – August 2013
Research associate at the University of Kassel, Institute of Psychology, Prof. Heidi Möller
- January 2007 – July 2008
Research associate at the University of Ulm, Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Prof. Horst Kächele
- February 2006 – April 2009
Self-employed as psychoanalytic psychotherapist in training
- August 2002 – January 2006
Research associate at the University of Bremen, Bremen Institute for Theoretical and Applied Psychoanalysis, Prof. Ellen Reinke
- February 1998 – April 2004
Mediator at Täter-Opfer-Ausgleich Bremen e. V., Head of the East Section
Work and research focus
Mentalization
Conduct disorders
Personality Disorders
Competence development of health care professionals
Qualifications
Psychological psychotherapist for adults, adolescents and children with the specializations analytical psychotherapy and depth psychologically based psychotherapy (German Psychoanalytic Society)
Supervisor and trainer for Mentalization-Based Therapy for Adolescents (MBT-A) (Anna Freud Centre London)
Trainer for the Reflective Functioning Scale
Reliable for the Adult Attachment Projective Picture System
