Katja Beesdo-Baum, PhD
Technische Universität Dresden
Institute of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy
Chemnitzer Str. 46
Dresden
Germany
01187
Papers:
2.39
What Do Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Disorders Predict? Prospective-Longitudinal Associations with Adult Psychopathology
Additional applicant information: Prof. Dr. Katja Beesdo-Baum is academic associate at the Institute of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Technische Universitaet Dresden, Dresden, Germany. She received her Ph.D. and Habilitation from the Technische Universitaet Dresden, where she also completed her graduate studies in psychology as well as her postgraduate psychotherapy (Cognitive Behavior Therapy) training. Her research focuses on clinical psychological and developmental aspects of the etiology and pathogenic mechanisms (cognitive-affective, behavioral, neurobiologic, environmental) of anxiety and depressive disorders. In her primary role as the workgroup leader of the Early Developmental Stages of Psychopathology Program, she uses clinical causal-analytic epidemiology to study the incidence patterns, longitudinal trajectories and risk factors for the onset and course of anxiety disorders (particularly Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Social Anxiety Disorder) and depressive disorders in adolescents and young adults from the community. Her principal interest in Generalized Anxiety Disorder also involves clinical research addressing phenomenology and psychological treatments, especially improved care for patients in the context of a specialized outpatient clinic that she has established. Her research also incorporates a neuroscience perspective investigating the neural dysfunctions in patients with anxiety and depressive disorders. Across all research approaches - epidemiological, clinical, and neuroscience – her particular interest is to understand the distinctions in etiologic and pathogenic pathways in anxiety versus depressive disorders.