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Teaching and research areas
- Social diagnostics
- Social and therapeutic group work
- Case management
- Bio-psycho-social theory models
- Case work / case seminars
- Professional identity of social work
Main research areas
- Case history studies
- professional action
- Consequences of social assistance
Short vita
- since 03.2025: Professorship (W2) for Casuistry and Methodology in Social Work, Coburg University of Applied Sciences
- 2020 – 02.2025: Professorship (W2) for Social Work with a focus on child and youth welfare, DHBW Heidenheim
- 2019 Cooperative doctorate (Dr. phil.) in pedagogy with a study on help processes between youth welfare and youth psychiatry from the perspective of users with Rita Braches-Chyrek (Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg) and Michael Vogt (Coburg University of Applied Sciences)
- 2014 – 2020: Lectureships at the Coburg University of Applied Sciences, Landshut University of Applied Sciences and the Otto Friedrich University of Bamberg
- 2015 – 2020: Head of the IPSG Center for Child, Youth and Family Support (see below)
- 2008 – 2020: Social pedagogue in educational and integration support at the IPSG Center for Child, Youth and Family Support. Institute for Psycho-Social Health gGmbH (recognized independent youth welfare organization, member of the Paritätische Wohlfahrtsverband)
- 2006 – 2012: BA (2010) and MA (2012) Social Work, Coburg University of Applied Sciences
Memberships
- DGSA German Society for Social Work
- Section Clinical Social Work of the DGSA
- ECCSW European Center for Clinical Social Work
- IGFH International Association for Educational Assistance – German Section of the Fédération Internationale des Communautés Educatives FICE e.V.
- Amnesty International
