Svenja Taubner is Professor for Psychosocial Prevention at the medical faculty of the University of Heidelberg in Germany. She is the director of the Institute for Psychosocial Prevention at the University-Hospital Heidelberg.
She has studied psychology and received her PhD at the University Bremen (Germany) and has worked as researcher at the universities Ulm, Kassel and Berlin (Germany). She was professor for Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy at the University of Klagenfurt (Austria).
She has received the Hamburger fellowship for Research on Personality Disorders twice, was fellow of the Hanse Institute of Advanced Study in Delmenhorst and Marsilius Kolleg of Advanced Study of the University Heidelberg, Germany as well as visiting scientist at the Anna-Freud-Centre London, UK and University of Oslo, Norway. She is President of the European Chapter of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR) and member of the German Psychoanalytic Society (DPG), the German Society for Psychology (DGPs) and the European Association of Clinical Psychology and Psychological Treatment (EACLIPT).
Her research addresses mentalization, juvenile offending and competence development in mental health professionals and parents with personality disorders. She is currently costeering a European network within the COST program about individualized treatment for young people in Europe (TREATME).
She is trained in MBT for adolescents (MBT-A) and also supervisor and trainer in this method. She currently evaluates an adaption of MBT-A for the treatment of conduct disorder. She is editor of the Psychotherapeut, Praxis der Kinderpsychologie und Kinderpsychiatrie as well as Editor-in-Chief of Mental Health & Prevention. She has published four books and over 70 articles.



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