Team

• Experimental psychopathology research in feeding and eating disorders, body dysmorphic disorder and other obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders
• Evaluation of psychological online interventions

Academic Qualifications

2002 - 2008
B.Sc. and Msc. of Psychology at the University of Basel and Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, Canada

2008 - 2011
PhD at the Philipps University of Marburg; thesis: Binge eating disorder and aspects of personality in childhood and adolescence.

2016
Habilitation at the University of Osnabrück; second thesis: Two sides of a coin? Comparisons of etiological factors across anorexia nervosa and body dysmorphic disorder


Professional activities

2008 - 2010
PhD student at the Department of Psychology at the Philipps University of Marburg

2008 - 2010
Psychotherapist in training at the Outpatient Psychotherapy Center at Philipps University of Marburg

2009 - 2011
Psychotherapist in training for the treatment of children and adolescents, Psychological Teaching Practice Patricia Schmitt, Dipl.-Psych., Bad Soden

2010 - 2011
Psychotherapist in training at the Vogelsberg Clinic, Dr. Ebel Specialist Clinic for Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Grebenhain

2011 - 2013
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Massachusetts General Hospital und Harvard Medical School Boston MA

2013 - 2021
Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy at Osnabrück University


Psychotherapy training

Licensed Psychological Psychotherapist in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in 2012

Additional qualification in the field of child and adolescent psychotherapy (CBT) in 2011

Krebs, G., Rautio, D., Hartmann, A. S., Fernández de la Cruz, L., Jassi, A., Martin, A., Stringaris, A., & Mataix-Cols, D. (2024, epub ahead of print). Practitioner Review: Assessment and treatment of body dysmorphic disorder in young people. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry doi: 10.1111/jcpp.13984

Kollei, I., Ritter, V., Martin, A., Grocholewksi, A., Heinrichs, N., Hartmann, A. S. & Buhlmann, U. (2023). Psychometric Evaluation of the German version of the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale modified for Body Dysmorphic Disorders (BDD-YBOCS). Psychiatry Research, 37, 100790. doi: 10.1016/j.jocrd.2023.100790

Hartmann, A. S., Zenger, M., Glaesmer, H., Strauß, B., Brähler, E., de Zwaan, M. & Hilbert, A. (2022). Prevalence of pica and rumination behaviors in adults and associations with eating and general psychopathology – findings form a population-based study. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences 31, e40. doi: 10.1017/S2045796022000208. 

Hartmann, A. S., Schmidt, M., Staufenbiel, T., Ebert, D. D., Martin, A. & Schönberger, K. (2021). ImaginYouth - a therapist-guided internet-based cognitive-behavioral program for adolescents and young adults with body dysmorphic disorder: study protocol for a two-arm randomized controlled trial. Frontiers in Psychiatry – Psychological Therapies, 12, 682965. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.682965

Korn, J., Dietel, F., & Hartmann, A. S. (2020). Testing the specificity of interpretation biases in women with eating disorder symptoms: An online experimental assessment. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 53(3), 372-382). doi: 10.1002/eat.23201

Hartmann, A. S., Staufenbiel, T., Bielefeld, L., Buhlmann, U., Heinrichs, N., Martin, A., Ritter, A., Kollei, I. & Grocholewski, A. (2020). An empirically-derived recommendation for the classification of body dysmorphic disorder: Findings from structural equation modeling. Plos One, 15(6): e0233153. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0233153

Voges, M. M., Schöne, B., Gruber, T., Hartmann, A. S. & Vocks, S. (2020). Time course of body recognition in women with weight and shape concerns assessed by steady-state visual evoked potentials (SSVEP). Biological Psychology, 145, 107906. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2020.107906

Hartmann, A. S., Poulain, T., Vogel M., Hiemisch, H., Kiess, W. & Hilbert, A. (2018). Prevalence rates of pica and rumination disorder behaviors in German children aged 7-14 and their associations with feeding, eating, and general psychopathology: A population-based study. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 27(11):1499-1508. doi: 10.1007/s00787-018-1153-9

Topic: The function of body checking in bulimia nervosa, body dysmorphic disorder and illness anxiety
Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)
Applicants: Prof. Dr. Andrea Hartmann Firnkorn & Prof. Dr. Silja Vocks (HA 8589/5-1 & VO1750/5-1)
Duration: 2021-2023                                                                                                              
www.psycho.uni-osnabrueck.de/zusatzangebote/anchor_projekt.html
Instagram: @anchor_projekt

Topic: Guided online self-help in adolescents with body dysmorphic disorder: a single-blind randomised controlled trial. 
Funding: Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung
Applicant: Prof. Dr. Andrea Hartmann Firnkorn (2018_A160)
Duration 2019-2022
www.psycho.uni-osnabrueck.de/imaginyouth
Instagram: @imaginyouth

Topic: Body Exposure - Attention Modification (BEAM) Scientific Network
Funding: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Applicant: Prof. Dr. Andrea Hartmann Firnkorn (HA 8589/2-1)
Co-applicant: Dr. Jessica Renner
Further members: Dr. Eva Naumann, Prof. Dr. Jennifer Svaldi, Prof. Dr. Silja Vocks
Duration: 2019-2023
www.beam-net.uni.-osnabrueck.de

• Psychotherapeutic meachanisms of action
• Body-focused intervention methods

Academic qualifications

Since 2017
PhD student at University of Konstanz and BIP-candidate at the Bodenseeinstitut of Psychotherapy at University of Konstanz

2000 - 2015
Master of science in Psychology (Diplompsychologin), University of Konstanz


Professional activities

Since 2023
Research assistant in the workgroup Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy and the Outpatient Treatment Center for Youth at University of Konstanz

2017 - 2019
Clinical Psychologist at Zentrum für Psychiatrie Reichenau

2016 - 2020
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin at workgroup Clinical Psychology at University of Konstanz

1998 - 2000
Physiotherapist Hegau-Jugendwerk GmbH Gailingen, Neurological Clinic and Rehabilitation Center for Youth

1994 - 1997
Education to become a Physiotherapist


Psychotherapeutic qualifications Qualifikationen

Since 2023
Sport Psychology with a major in Sportpsychological training and coaching in competitive sports Center of Mental Excellence, Dr. Christopher Willis

2023
Further qualification Child and Adolescent PsychotherapyZusatzqualifikation Kinder- und Jugendlichenpsychotherapie (CBT)

2023
Further qualification group psychotherapy (CBT)

2023
Clinical Hypnotherapist  (DGH), Klingenberger Institut für Klinische Hypnose, Prof. Walter Bongartz

2018 - 2023
Psychological Psychotherapist at Ausbildungszentrum für Psychotherapie Bodensee Konstanz (apb) in CBT

• E-mental health for children, adolescents and young adults
• Treatment and prevention of eating and body image disorders

Academic qualifications

2019-2021
Maastricht University: M.Sc. Research Master in Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience: Specialisation Psychopathology

2016-2019
Maastricht University: B.Sc. Psychology


Professional Activities

Since 2021
PhD student at Experimental Clinical Psychology Group, University of Konstanz

Engelkamp, J. E., Hartmann, A. S.,  Petrowski, K., Herhaus, B.,  Fegert, J.M., Sachser, C., Kropp, P., Müller, B., Brähler E., Hilbert, A.,  (Mai, 2023). Gesundheitsverhalten von erwachsenenPersonen mit Symptomen einer Vermeidendend/restriktiven Essstörung (ARFID). (Poster). 2. Deutscher Psychotherapie Kongress, Berlin.

Engelkamp, J. E., Schmidt, M.,Staufenbiel, T., Ebert D. D., Martin, A., Schoenenberg, K.,  & Hartmann A. S.,  (2023, Mai). ImaginYouth – eine internetbasierte therapeutengeleitete kognitiv-verhaltenstherapeutische Intervention für Jugendlichen mit einer Körperdysmorpher Störung. 2. Deutscher Psychotherapiekongress, Berlin.

Kessel, J., Schmidt, M., Engelkamp, J. E., Schoenenberg, K., Martin, A., Ebert, D. D., Staufenbiel, T. & Hartmann, A. S.. (2023, 10.05). Effects of an Online-Based Intervention for Body Dysmorphic Disorder on Body Dissatisfaction and Eating Disorder Pathology in a Youth Sample [Poster]. 2. Deutscher Psychotherapie Kongress, Berlin.

• Diagnostics and treatment of body dysmorphic disorder 

Academic qualifications

2015 - 2016
University of Konstanz, M.Sc. Psychology

2010 - 2015
University of Konstanz, B.Sc. Psychology


Professional activities

Since 10/2023
Research assistant at the workgroup of Experimental Clinical Psychology and clinical psychologist at the Psychotherapy Outpatient Center for Children and Adolescentsat the University of Konstanz, Konstanz

02/2018 - 09/2023
Psychologist at the social psychiatry ward (residential) at ZfP Reichenau, Reichenau

2017 - 2022
Lecturer for Clinical Psychology at Salem Kolleg, Überlingen.

02/2017 - 01/2018
Psychologist at Schmieder Kliniken, Konstanz

02/2016 - 01/2018
Psychologist at Vinzenz von Paul Hospital, Rottweil.


Psychotherapy training

Since 2019
Further training to get an additional licensure as Child and Adolescent psychotherapist Fachkunde at Ausbildungszentrum für Psychotherapie Bodensee (apb) in Konstanz

2016 - 2023
Further training as a psychological psychotherapist (CBT) at Ausbildungszentrum für Psychotherapie Bodensee (apb) in Konstanz

• Body checking in women with body concerns/subclinical eating disorder pathology and in men
• Body-related avoidance

Academic Qualifications

2021-2022
University of Konstanz: M.Sc. Psychology

2017-2021
University of Konstanz: B.Sc. Psychology


Professional Activities

since 2022
Research Assistant, University of Konstanz

Geiger, G., Opladen, V., Vivell, M.-B., Vocks, S. & Hartmann, A. S. (Mai, 2023). Ätiologischer Faktor oder Epiphänomen? Der Effekt von verstärktem Body Checking auf eine weibliche Risikostichprobe in einer naturalistischen experimentellen Onlinestudie (Poster). 2. Deutscher Psychotherapie Kongress, Berlin.

Schulz, I., Geiger, G., Oberwein, J., Opladen, V., Vivell, M-B., Vocks, S., Hartmann, A. S. (Mai, 2023) Body Checking bei gesunden Männern: Funktional oder schädlich? Erste Hinweise aus einem Online-Experiment (Poster). 2. Deutscher Psychotherapie Kongress, Berlin.

Psychotherapy in youth

Embodiment - body-related therapeutic methods

Academic qualifications

2021-2022
University of Konstanz: M.Sc. Psychology

2017-2021
University of Konstanz: B.Sc. Psychology


Professional activities

Since 02/202
Research Assistant, Work group of Experimental Clinical Psychology at University of Konstanz and clinical psychologist at the Psychotherapy Outpatient Center for Children and Adolescents

Since 01/2018
Clinical psychologist in private practice

04/2016 - 03/2018Cclinical psychologist in the Youth Psychiatry Outpatient Center of Luisenklinik


Psychotherapy training

Since 01/2023
Further Qualification as a Clinical Supervisor at ZPP of University of Heidelberg 

04/2016
Licensed Children and Adolescent Psychotherapist; various further educations in Schema Therapy, Process- and Embodiment-Focused Psychotherapy (PEP®)

• Basic research on body checking behaviour
• Therapy and treatment of body image disorders
• Placebo and nocebo effect

Academic Qualifications

Since 2021
PhD student, Experimental Clinical Psychology Group, University of Konstanz

2017-2018
Philipps University Marburg, M.Sc. Psychology

2013-2017
Philipps University Marburg, B.Sc. Psychology


Professional Activities

Since 2021
PhD studient at University of Osnabrück and University of Konstanz

Since 2020
Psychotherapist in Training at the Bielefelder Institute for Psychotherapy Training (BIPP), Behavioural Therapy Outpatient Clinic

2018-2020
Psychotherapist in training at salus klinik Friedberg


Psychotherapy training

Since 2018
Psychotherapist in training (CBT) (Goethe University Frankfurt am Main & Bielefelder Institute for Psychotherapy Training).

Kube, T., Rief, W., Vivell, M. B., Schäfer, N. L., Vermillion, T., Körfer, K., & Glombiewski, J. A. (2020). Deceptive and Nondeceptive Placebos to Reduce Pain: An Experimental Study in Healthy Individuals. The Clinical Journal of Pain

, 36(2), 68-79. doi.org/10.1097/AJP.0000000000000781

Vivell, M. -B., Opladen, V., Vocks, S. & Hartmann, A. S. (2021, Mai). Kurzfristige Funktionen und langfristige Konsequenzen von Checkingverhalten als transdiagnostisches Phänomen: Systematisches Review. [Poster]. 38. Symposium der Fachgruppe Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs), Mannheim (Virtueller Kongress).

Vivell, M.-B., Opladen, V., Vocks, S. & Hartmann A. S. (2022). Short term functions and long-term consequences of checking behavior as a transdiagnostic phenomenon: Protocol for a systematic review. BMJ Open 12(4):e056732. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-056732

Opladen, V., Vivell, M.-B., Vocks, A. & Hartmann, A. S. (2022). Revisiting the postulates of etiological models of eating disorders: Questioning body checking as a longer-term maintaining factor. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.795189

Vivell, M.-B., Opladen, V., Schulz, I., Hirschfeld, G., Vocks, S. & Hartmann, A. S. (Mai, 2023). Der Zusammenhang zwischen Body Checking und Essstörungspsychopathologie – eine Frage der Persönlichkeit (Poster). 2. Deutscher Psychotherapie Kongress, Berlin.

Geiger, G., Opladen, V., Vivell, M.-B., Vocks, S. & Hartmann, A. S. (Mai, 2023). Ätiologischer Faktor oder Epiphänomen? Der Effekt von verstärktem Body Checking auf eine weibliche Risikostichprobe in einer naturalistischen experimentellen Onlinestudie (Poster). 2. Deutscher Psychotherapie Kongress, Berlin.

Schulz, I., Geiger, G., Oberwein, J., Opladen, V., Vivell, M.-B., Vocks, S., Hartmann, A. S. (Mai, 2023) Body Checking bei gesunden Männern: Funktional oder schädlich? Erste Hinweise aus einem Online-Experiment (Poster)? 2. Deutscher Psychotherapie Kongress, Berlin.

• E-Mental Health in Body Dysmorphic Disorder
• Complicating factors in the treatment of body image disorders
• Psychotherapy for adolescents and young adults

Academic Qualifications

Since 2019
PhD student in clinical psychology and psychotherapy

2017-2019
University of Osnabrück: M.Sc. Clinical Psychology

2014-2017
University of Göttingen: B.Sc. Psychology

2011-2014
University of Oldenburg: B.A. Biology and German Studies


Professional Activities

Since 2021
Psychotherapist in training, Outpatient Psychotherapy Clinic, University of Osnabrück

Since 2019
PhD student, University of Osnabrück

2020-2021
Psychotherapist in training, Rehazentrum am Hesselkamp


Psychotherapy training

Since 2019
Continuing education course in psychological psychotherapy, University of Osnabrück

Schmidt, M., Taube, C. O., Heinrich, T., Vocks, S. & Hartmann, A. S. (2022). Body image disturbance and associated eating disorder and body dysmorphic disorder pathology in gay and heterosexual men: A systematic analysis of cognitive, affective, behavioral and perceptual aspects. Plos One, 17(12), e0278558. Doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0278558

Hartmann, A. S., Schmidt, M., Staufenbiel, T., Ebert, D. D., Martin, A. & Schönberger, K. (2021). ImaginYouth - a therapist-guided internet-based cognitive-behavioral program for adolescents and young adults with body dysmorphic disorder: study protocol for a two-arm randomized controlled trial. Frontiers in Psychiatry – Psychological Therapies. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.682965

Schmidt, M., Borgers, T., Vocks, S., Thomas, J. J. & Hartmann, A. S. (2021, März). Seeing the Feared: Aufmerksamkeitsverzerrung bei Anorexia Nervosa während der Konfrontation mit einem übergewichtigen Körperstimulus [Vortrag]. 7. Wissenschaftlicher Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGESS), Tübingen (Virtueller Kongress).

Schmidt, M., Staufenbiel, T., Ebert, D. D., Martin, A., Schoenenberg, K., &Hartmann, A.S. (2021, Mai). ImaginYouth – Studienprotokoll einer internetbasierten therapeutengeleiteten kognitiven Verhaltenstherapie bei Jugendlichen mit Körperdysmorpher Störung [Poster]. 38. Symposium der Fachgruppe Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie der DGPs, Mannheim (Virtueller Kongress).

Schmidt, M., Grocholewski, A., Kollei, I., Ritter, V., Hartmann, A. S. (2020). Aussehensbezogene Zurückweisungssensitivität bei körperdysmorpher Störung und Essstörungen - Störungsdifferenzierendes Potenzial des Merkmals. Psychotherapeut, 65(2), 86-92. DOI 10.1007/s00278-020-00401-5

Kessel, J., Schmidt, M., Engelkamp, J. E., Schoenenberg, K., Martin, A., Ebert, D. D., Staufenbiel, T. & Hartmann, A. S.. (2023, 10.05). Effects of an Online-Based Intervention for Body Dysmorphic Disorder on Body Dissatisfaction and Eating Disorder Pathology in a Youth Sample [Poster]. 2. Deutscher Psychotherapie Kongress, Berlin.

Engelkamp, J. E., Schmidt, M.,Staufenbiel, T., Ebert D. D., Martin, A., Schoenenberg, K.,  & Hartmann A. S.,  (2023, Mai). ImaginYouth – eine internetbasierte therapeutengeleitete kognitiv-verhaltenstherapeutische Intervention für Jugendlichen mit einer Körperdysmorpher Störung. 2. Deutscher Psychotherapiekongress, Berlin.

• Obsessive compulsive and related disorders
• Body image disorders
• Psychotherapeutic mechanisms of action

Academic qualifications

2022-2023
IB Hochschule Köln: M.Sc. Clinical Psychology

2018-2022
IB Hochschule Stuttgart: B.A. Applied Psychology


Professional activities

Since 2023
Lectuter in psychological courses for the Deutscher Verband der Psychologen und Kraftfahreignungsberater (DVPK)

2017-2023
Psychological counselor and addiction counselor at Psychological Counseling Practice Plochingen

- Mechanisms of action of psychotherapy 

- Eating disorders & body dysmorphic disorders

- Body exposure

Akademische Qualifikationen

Seit 2023
Doktorandin Arbeitsgruppe Experimentelle Klinische Psychologie, Universität Konstanz

2019-2021
Universität zu Köln: M.A. Rehabilitationswissenschaften mit dem Schwerpunkt „Rehabilitation von Menschen mit psychischen Beeinträchtigungen“

2014-2017
Universität zu Köln: B.A. Erziehungswissenschaften

Berufliche Tätigkeiten

2022-2023
Bildungsbegleiterin für Menschen mit psychischen Störungen beim Internationalen Bund für Bildung, Köln

2019-2023
Reittherapeutin bei Therap e.V., Bergisch Gladbach

2017-2021
Sozialpädagogin im Bethanien Kinder- und Jugenddorf, Bergisch Gladbach