Monique Pfaltz

Forskningsområden

My research assesses socio-emotional processes (e.g., regulation of closeness and distance, emotional expressivity, facial emotion recognition) in healthy individuals and patients affected by traumatic stress, with a special focus on the consequences of childhood maltreatment, i.e., abuse and neglect. I furthermore use experimental, psychophysiological and experience sampling methods to identify factors that keep health care professionals (including therapists working with traumatized clients) healthy. Finally, I am interested in the development of interventions that strengthen mental health and social functioning in traumatized individuals, including refugees and asylum seekers.

Undervisning

I am mainly teaching in the Master program in emotion psychology and in the program for students becoming clinical psychologists.

Forskningsprojekt

Pågående

Effekter av en enda session av en kroppsorienterad behandling på vuxna med varierande grad av barnmisshandel

Kroppsinriktad psykologisk behandling för individer med negativa barndomsupplevelser och traumarelaterade symptom

Nätverk för barntrauma