Dr. Saskia Scholten
About me
While psychotherapy research was caught in methodological procedures based on the medical illness model for a long time, clinical practice was based on individual case conceptualization. We are overcoming the medical illness model now and the question what works for whom is once again posed. As a post-doctoral researcher in Julia Anna Glombiewski's Pain and Psychotherapy Research Lab, I want to contribute to the answer to this question. For that reason, I explore whether we can implement functional analysis with means of ecological momentary assessment in a patient's everyday life and use the data to build a personalized process-oriented psychotherapy.
In my doctoral thesis, I examined the questions related to macro-social and cultural determinants of mental health and even though they are not the main focus of my research anymore, I am still ready to discuss sociopolitical issues anytime becasue they are everywhere anyhow.
Research interests
CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY
Clinical decision-making
Data-based case conceptualization
Development of psychotherapist trainees and evaluation of psychotherapist training
Negative effects in psychotherapy
Process-oriented individualized network-based therapy
CROSS-CULTURAL (CLINICAL) PSYCHOLOGY
Comparability of assessment instruments
Differences and comparability of symptoms, conceptualization, diagnostic, etiology and
treatment of mental disorders
Integrating qualitative and quantitative research methods
MACRO-SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF MENTAL HEALTH
Relation between equality, freedom and wealth and mental health
Socioeconomic status and mental health (including treatment, therapy outcome etc.)
Subjective evaluation of macro-social determinants and mental health
