Ecker, Angelika

Education

10/2020-08/2024

Doctoral studies for Dr. sc. hum. at the Department
of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy

Title of the dissertation: “Comparison of a real and virtual Trier Social Stress Test for Children (TSST-C) - Multimodal stress response and gaze behavior as stress parameters”

University of Regensburg

Training as psychological psychotherapist in behavioural therapy

Additional training: group therapy

Training Institute for Behavioural Therapy Regensburg (AVR)

Master of Science Psychology

University of Regensburg

Bachelor of Science Psychology

University of Regensburg

Professional Activity

Psychologist in a specialized outpatient clinic for
addiction problems

Caritas Straubing

Training as a psychotherapist at the Medbo research ward

Regensburg district hospital

Training as a psychotherapist in the outpatient practice
of Dr. Sagstetter

Regensburg

since 10/2019

Research associate at the Department
of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy

University Hospital Regensburg

Student and research assistant at the Department of
Educational Psychology

University of Regensburg

Student assistant at the Department of Clinical Psychology
and Psychotherapy

University of Regensburg

Research Interests

Publications

Jarvers I., Kormann E., Schleicher D., Ecker A., Kandsperger, S. & Brunner, R. (2024). Impact of alexithymia, speech problems and parental emotion recognition on internalizing and externalizing problems in preschoolers. PLoS ONE, 19(9): e0310244. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0310244

Ecker, A., Jarvers, I., Kocur, M., Kandsperger, S., Brunner, R. & Schleicher, D. (2024). Multifactorial stress reactivity to virtual TSST-C in healthy children and adolescents—It works, but not as well as a real TSST-C. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 160, 106681. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2023.106681
(EDITOR’S CHOICE ARTICLE)

Kick, L., Schleicher, D., Ecker, A., Kandsperger, S., Brunner, R., & Jarvers, I. (2024). Alexithymia as a mediator between adverse childhood events and the development of psychopathology: a metaanalysis. Front. Psychiatry, 15:1412229.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1412229

Krempel, R., Jarvers, I., Ecker, A., Schleicher, D., Brunner, R., & Kandsperger, S. (2024). Sleep quality and the cortisol and alpha-amylase awakening responses in adolescents with depressive disorders. BJPsych Open, 10(5), e140. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2024.730

Schleicher, D., Jarvers, I., Kocur, M., Kandsperger, S., Brunner, R., & Ecker, A. (2024). Does it need an app?–Differences between app-guided breathing and natural relaxation in adolescents after acute stress. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 107148. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2024.107148

Jarvers, I., Ecker, A., Schleicher, D., Kandsperger, S., Otto, A., & Brunner, R. (2023). Anorexia nervosa during COVID-19: loss of personal control and alexithymia as important contributors to symptomatology in adolescent girls. Journal of Eating Disorders, 11, 180. doi.org/10.1186/s40337-023-00905-w

Jarvers, I., Ecker, A., Schleicher, D., & Otto, A. (2023). The German COVID-19 Questionnaire for Anorexia Nervosa (COV-AN). 

Jarvers, I., Ecker, A., Schleicher, D., Brunner, R., & Kandsperger, S. (2023). Impact of preschool attendance, parental stress and parental mental health on internalizing and externalizing problems during COVID-19 lockdown measures in preschool children. PLoS One 8(2). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0281627

Kandsperger, S., Ecker, A., Schleicher, D., Wirth, M., Brunner, R., & Jarvers, I. (2023). Emergency-related inpatient admissions in child and adolescent psychiatry: comparison of clinical characteristics of involuntary and voluntary admissions from a survey in Bavaria, Germany. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-023-02154-3

Schleicher, D., Heidingsfelder, E., Kandsperger, S., Jarvers, I., Ecker, A., & Brunner, R. (2023). Non-suicidal self-injury and emotional burden among university students during the COVID-19 pandemic: Cross-sectional online survey. BJPsych Open, 9(1), E1. https://www.doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2022.616

Kandsperger, S., Madurkay, J., Schleicher, D., Otto, A., Ecker, A., Brunner, R., Jarvers, I.: Treatment Motivation and Burden of Stress among Parents of Adolescents with Non-Suicidal Self-Injury Presenting to a Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Emergency Service. Psychopathology. https://doi.org/10.1159/000526611

Schleicher, D.*, Ecker, A.*, Kocur, M., Jarvers, I., Nash, C., Götz, L., Otto, A. H., Kandsperger, S. and Brunner, R. (2022). Psychosocial stress induction in vivo vs. in virtuo and the influence of a health app on the acute stress reaction in youths: a study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials 23, 847.
doi.org/10.1186/s13063-022-06758-z

Ecker A., Jarvers I., Schleicher D., Kandsperger S., Schelhorn I., Meyer M., Borchert T., Lüdtke M. and Shiban Y. (2022). Problems or prospects? Being a parent in the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. Front. Psychol. 13:901249. doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.901249

Kandsperger S., Schleicher D., Ecker A., Keck F., Bentheimer S., Brunner R. and Jarvers I. (2022) Emotional Reactivity in Adolescents With Non-suicidal Self-injury and Its Predictors: A Longitudinal Study. Front. Psychiatry 13:902964. doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.902964

Jarvers, I., Ecker, A., Schleicher, D., Otto, A., & Jarvers, C. (2022, April 26). The Alexithymia Questionnaire for Children – German version (AQC-G). https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ra65t

Krempel, R., Schleicher, D., Jarvers, I., Ecker, A., Brunner, R., & Kandsperger, S. (2022). Sleep quality and neurohormonal and psychophysiological accompanying factors in adolescents with depressive disorders: Study protocol. BJPsych Open, 8(2), E57. doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2022.29 ;

Jarvers, I., Ecker, A., Kaemmerer, M., & Grüning, D. J. (2021, October 13). German Version of the Perth Alexithymia Questionnaire Adapted for Children. Retrieved from psyarxiv.com/yd5kv. doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/yd5kv

Schelhorn I., Ecker A., Lüdtke M. N., Rehm S., Tran T., Bereznai J. L., Meyer M. L., Sütterlin S., Kinateder M., Lugo R. G. and Shiban Y. (2021) Psychological Burden During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Germany. Frontiers in Psychology. 12:640518. doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.640518

Kandsperger, S., Jarvers, I., Schleicher, D., Ecker, A., Wirth, M., & Brunner, R. (2021). Suicidality presented to a Child and Adolescent Psychiatry emergency service: Increasing rate and changing characteristics. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12, 1195.
doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.708208