Wiebke Uhlenbrock, M. Sc. Psychologie

Researcher

Faculty of Health (School of Psychology and Psychotherapy)  |  Professorship of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy


Ms Uhlenbrock, M. Sc., is an academic staff member at the Professorship of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy under Prof. Gabriele Lutz.[MN1] The activities of this professorship include research, teaching and the outpatient and inpatient care of psychosomatic patients at Herdecke Community Hospital.


Research

The focus of the professorship is on research into meaning and psychotherapy in the context of questions of meaning with the guiding research question of how the experience of meaning can be promoted in patients and citizens.

Ms Uhlenbrock, M. Sc., supports the following research projects in this area, which are primarily investigated using qualitative methods:

  • Dealing with issues of meaning in the psychosocial care of the dying from the perspective of hospice staff and hospital chaplains
  • Dealing with questions of meaning in outpatient psychotherapy from the perspective of
  • Psychological psychotherapists (with and without further training in existential psychotherapy or existential topics)
  • Psychotherapists in training

Dealing with questions of meaning in chronically somatically ill patients from the perspective of inpatient and practising physicians


Resume

Since 03/2024

Part-time employment as a research assistant at the Professorship of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, School of Medicine, Witten/Herdecke University

Since 08/2022

Training as a psychological psychotherapist (PP TP) in accordance with the PsychThG Psychological Psychotherapy at the Psychotherapy Training Centre in Bad Salzuflen

08/2022 - 03/2024

Trainee in training as a psychological psychotherapist and part-time employment as a psychologist at Herdecke Community Hospital on the general psychiatric ward specialising in social and addiction psychiatry

2018 - 2022

Master's degree in Psychology specialising in Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy (M. Sc.) at Witten/Herdecke University,

Degree: Master of Science

2014 - 2018

Bachelor's degree programme in Psychology and Psychotherapy (B.Sc.) at Witten/Herdecke University, Witten,

Graduation: Bachelor of Science