Schleicher, Daniel

Education

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

Title of the dissertation: "Everyday stress experience and effectiveness of an app-guided relaxation exercise after acute stress - implications for a health app for stress management in childhood and adolescence"

University of Regensburg

Training as a psychological psychotherapist in behavior therapy

Additional training: Group therapy

Additional training: Child and adolescent psychotherapy

Training Institute for Behavior Therapy Regensburg

Master of Arts Criminology and Violence Research

University of Regensburg

Master of Science Psychology

University of Regensburg

Bachelor of Science Psychology

University of Regensburg

Professional Activity

Psychologist at the Psychiatric Day Clinic of the Clinic and
Polyclinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University of Regensburg

medbo distric hospital Regensburg

Psychotherapist in training at the Psychiatric Institute Outpatient Clinic and Day Clinic

medbo Amberg

Psychotherapist in training in the teaching practice of
Dipl.-Psych. Dr. phil. Eva Sagstetter

Institute outpatient clinic of the Training Institute for Behavioral Therapy Regensburg

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

University Hospital Regensburg

Student and Research Assistantat the Department of Medical Psychology, Psychological Diagnostics and Methodology

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.
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).
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 involunatry and voluntary admissions from a survey in Bavaria, Germany. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.
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.
www.doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2022.616

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

Kandsperger, S., Schleicher, D., Ecker, A., Keck, F., Bentheimer, S., Brunner, R., & Jarvers, I. (2022) Emotional reactivity in adolescents with non-suicidal self-injury and its predictors: a longitudinal study. Frontiers in psychiatry, 13. 
doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.902964

Jarvers, I., Kandsperger, S., Schleicher, D., Ando, A., Resch, F., Koenig, J., Kaess, M., & Brunner, R. (2022) The relationship between adolescents' externalizing and internalizing symptoms and brain development over a period of three years. NeuroImage: Clinical, 103195. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2022.103195

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. 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

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 ;

Schleicher, D., Jarvers, I., Raine, A., & Brunner, R. (2021, November 24). The Cognitive, Affective, and Somatic Empathy Scales – German version (CASES-G). Retrieved from psyarxiv.com/e9vdj.
doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/e9vdj

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

Kandsperger, S., Jarvers, I., Ecker, A., Schleicher, D., Madurkay, J., Otto, A., & Brunner, R. (2021). Emotional Reactivity and Family-Related Factors Associated With Self-Injurious Behavior in Adolescents Presenting to a Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Emergency Service. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12, 913.
doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.708208

Goetz, L., Jarvers, I., Schleicher, D., Mikan, K., Brunner, R., & Kandsperger, S. (2021). The role of the endogenous oxytocin system under psychosocial stress conditions in adolescents suffering from anxiety disorder: study protocol for a parallel group controlled trial. BMC Psychology 9, 61. doi.org/10.1186/s40359-021-00564-z.d