As part of an interdisciplinary team, the Institute conducts basic and application-orientated research in the fields of social medicine, rehabilitation science and research, as well as health services research. The focus is on the fields of rehabilitative, therapeutic social work, curative education, transdisciplinary early intervention and systemic counselling and therapy. The members of the Institute conduct research in close co-operation with national and international partners, including the German Pension Insurance, national and international universities and other societies and research institutions.
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Dr phil. habil. Bernadetta Janusz (Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Kraków)
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The transnational research project focusses on the transgenerational effects of forced migration in Russian and Ukrainian families as a result of the armed conflict in Ukraine.
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The international and interdisciplinary research project (medicine, psychology, health and social sciences, ethnography, history) deals with the forced migration of German and Polish families triggered by the Second World War.
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Prof. Dr med. habil. Markus Bassler
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Building on the Project MBOR-P In this project, practical recommendations for the implementation of MBOR in psychosomatic rehabilitation centres are agreed with experts and the people undergoing rehabilitation. These will then be introduced and implemented in the rehabilitation centres Celenus Psychosomatic Specialist Clinic Freiburg, Klinik Hüttenbühl Bad Dürrheim and Klinik Taubertal Bad Mergentheim. It will be tested whether the introduction of the newly harmonised practical recommendations leads to the treated persons achieving employment-related rehabilitation goals more effectively. People who receive their rehabilitation before the introduction of the new practice recommendations are compared with people who receive their rehabilitation after the introduction of the new practice recommendations.
The MBOR-PRIME study is being conducted jointly by the University of Lübeck, Nordhausen University of Applied Sciences and three rehabilitation centres.
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Model project to organise early intervention as a coordinating part of early help and to make interdisciplinary services more effective with the aim of improving preventive services to counteract the increase in social follow-up costs for rehabilitation providers.
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This international research project focusses on the interaction between couples and therapists within couples therapy. The significant moments of therapeutic interaction are to be recognised and examined, as well as the influence they have on the results of the therapy. In this project phase, the focus is on the qualitative analysis of the therapies and the individual interviews as part of the stimulated recall interviews.
10/2019 - 03/2023
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 Prof Dr Matthias Bethge (University of Lübeck), Prof Dr med. habil. Markus Bassler
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Effects of MBOR compared to conventional psychosomatic rehabilitation.
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Prof Dr Tobias Luck
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Provision of empirical information on the prevalence of feelings of guilt in the adult population in Germany
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Prof Dr Tobias Luck
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Provision of empirical information on causes, processing strategies and putative risk factors of feelings of guilt in the adult population in Germany
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Prof Dr Tobias Luck
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Development of an instrument for the differentiated assessment of everyday impairments due to cognitive decline processes
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Prof. Dr med. habil. Markus Bassler
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Investigation of the effects of pain-relevant biomediators with regard to diagnostics, course and outcome of interdisciplinary orthopaedic-psychosomatic rehabilitation in multilocular chronic pain syndromes (chronic widespread pain - especially fibromyalgia syndrome)
10/2020 - 09/2021
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How healthy are the students at Nordhausen University of Applied Sciences? What influences the health, well-being and health literacy of students? What differences are there compared to before and during the coronavirus pandemic measures?
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 Prof. Dr med. habil. Markus Bassler
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Influence of socio-cultural milieus on the subjective perception of illness
01/2020 - 12/2020
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 Prof Dr Andreas Seidel
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Recording possible impairments in the areas of life / participation of children in early intervention
01/2020 - 12/2020
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Prof Dr Andreas Seidel
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Mental impairment of children / adolescents whose parents have a depressive disorder.
09/2020 - 12/2020
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Prof Dr Petra Johanna Brzank, MPH
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Preparation of an expert report on the further development of the state action plan to combat violence against women and their children
10/2019 - 12/2020
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Since the introduction of the ICF (-CY), participation has been the yardstick for the successful inclusion of children with disabilities. The environment plays a mediating role in this. If current participation in meaningful life contexts can be recorded, participation-orientated goals and the necessary measures can be developed and evaluated together with parents. The "Young Children's Participation and Environment Measure" (YC-PEM) developed by Khetani, Coster, Law and Bedell is one such participation measurement tool (Khetani et al. 2013). It records the participation of children between the ages of 0 and 5 in important life situations (home, daycare/preschool, community) from the parents' perspective, which are based on the domains of activities and participation of the ICF-CY (Chien 2014). At the same time, the extent to which the environment represents support factors or barriers and which family participation strategies already exist are assessed. To date, however, there is no German-language version of the YC-PEM.
Goal: culturally adapted, German-language version of the YC-PEM.
Question: What linguistic adaptations need to be made in a German translation of the YC-PEM in order to record the participation of 0-5-year-old children in German-speaking countries?
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Prof Dr Britta Gebhard, Dr Astrid Fink (MLU Halle-Wittenberg)
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Prof Dr Markus Bassler
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Training in psychosomatic primary care for doctors in China - teaching programme at Peking Union Medical College Hospital
01/2017 - 12/2019
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Implementing diversity in teaching and research; teaching diversity-orientated skills in teaching and research
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Prof Dr Cordula Borbe, Prof Dr Markus Steffens
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03/2018 – 06/2019
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04/2018 - 09/2019
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Prof. Dr med. habil. Markus Bassler
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Development of a multi-stage clinical and test-psychological diagnosis
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What characteristics characterise patients in qualified withdrawal (QW) in internal medicine? How effective is this treatment setting (QE) in terms of disease acceptance, therapy success evaluation and the initiation of further measures?
04/2018 - 05/2018
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Prof Dr Cordula Borbe
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Evaluation of questionnaires on the youth development plan according to aspects of poverty
10/2018 – 12/2018
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Prof Dr Petra J. Brzank, MPH
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01/2016 – 12/2018
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Prof Dr Sebastian Möller-Dreischer
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01/2017 – 12/2018
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01/2017 - 09/2017
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Implementing diversity in teaching and research; teaching diversity-orientated skills in teaching and research
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Prof Dr Uwe Saint-Mont
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Overview of the patient population; how many people are treated in qualified withdrawal in internal medicine and what are their characteristics?
08/2014 – 04/2016
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 Prof Dr Andreas Seidel
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04/2016 – 06/2016
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Prof Dr Armin Sohns
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Prof Dr Britta Gebhard
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Longitudinal analysis; pupils' academic performance, their participation and their social-emotional school experience
2014 – 2025
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The development of examination results for preventive check-ups of children and adolescents in the public health service in Thuringia in the period from 1997 to 2014
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99734 Nordhausen
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Nordhausen University of Applied Sciences
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