Prof.in Dr.in Kathrin Sevecke
Director: Prof.in Dr.in Kathrin Sevecke
Univ.-Prof.in Dr.in med. Kathrin Sevecke
Position: Professor
ORCID: 0000-0002-4236-1870
E-Mail: kathrin.sevecke@tirol-kliniken.at; kathrin.sevecke@i-med.ac.at
Kathrin Sevecke is a child and adolescent psychiatrist and psychotherapist and serves as a full professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at the Medical University of Innsbruck. She is the president of the Austrian Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and director of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychosomatics in Hall in Tyrol.
Her clinical training was completed at the Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Bonn and at the Medical University of Cologne, Germany. Prof. Sevecke then worked at the child and adolescent psychiatry of University of Cologne as the head of the special unit for the treatment of eating disorders, anxiety disorders and depression and then became a professor at the University of Cologne. In 2013, she moved to the Medical University in Innsbruck, Austria. Additionally, she serves on national and international committees including the Forensic Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ÖGJKP and is an active member of the European Society for the Study of Personality Disorders (ESSPD) and the Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy (SSSP).
Keywords: personality pathology in children and adolescents, impulse control disorders, forensic psychiatry, eating disorders, attachment representations, mental health during COVID-19, NSSID, depression
Research interests: My research focuses on the assessment and treatment of adolescents with personality disorders, NSSID, eating disorders and depression. In one of our current projects we investigate mental health issues in young people during the COVID-19 pandemic in Austria.
Selected Publications
Leonhardt, A., Fuchs, M., Kohlboeck, G., Bachler-Ortner, N., Haid-Stecher, N., Gander, M. & Sevecke, K. (2025). Distress Profiles of Adolescents with Gender Dysphoria: A Cluster Analysis Approach. Archives of Sexual Behavior.
Gander, M., Buchheim, A., Kohlböck, G. & Sevecke, K. (2025). Unresolved attachment and identity diffusion in adolescence. Development and Psychopathology, 37(1), 429-438. doi: 10.1017/S0954579424000014
Gander, M., Buchheim, A. & Sevecke, K. (2024). Personality disorders and attachment trauma in adolescent patients with psychiatric disorders. Research in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 52(3), 457-471. doi: 10.1007/s10802-023-01141-1
Kohlböck, G., Wenter, A., Sevecke, K., Exenberger, S. (2023). Differences in perceived threat and trauma in children during the COVID-19 pandemic. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, 17(1), 83. Doi:10.1186/s13034-023-00628
Gander, M., Lenhart, L., Steiger, R., Buchheim, A., Mangesius, S., Birkl, C., Haid-Stecher, N., Fuchs, M., Libal, A., Dabkowska-Mika, A., Gizewski, R. & Sevecke, K. (2023). Attachment trauma is associated with white matter fiber microstructural alterations in adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa before and after exposure to psychotherapeutic and nutritional treatment. Brain Sciences, 13 (5), 7. doi: 10.3390/brainsci13050798
Dabkowska-Mika, A., Steiger, R., Gander, M., Haid-Stecher, N., Fuchs, M., Sevecke, K. & Gizewski, E. R. (2023). Evaluation of visual food stimuli paradigms on healthy adolescents for future use in fMRI studies in anorexia nervosa. Journal of Eating Disorders, 11(1), 35. doi: 10.1186/s40337-023-00761-8
Wenter A, Schickl M, Sevecke K, Juen B, Exenberger S. Children's mental health during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic: burden, risk factors and posttraumatic growth - a mixed-methods parents' perspective. (2022) Front Psychol. 2 (13):901205. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.901205. PMID: 35719524; PMCID: PMC9201953.
Lenhart, L., Gander, M., Steiger, R., Dabkowska-Mika, A., Mangesius, S., Haid-Stecher, N., Fuchs, M., Buchheim, A., Sevecke, K. & Gizewski, E.R. (2022). Attachment status is associated with grey matter recovery in adolescent anorexia nervosa: Findings from a longitudinal study. European Journal of Neuroscience, 55(5), 1373-1387. doi: 10.1111/ejn.15614
Gander, M., Fuchs, M., Franz, N., Jahnke-Majorkovits, A.C., Buchheim, A., Bock, A. & Sevecke, K. (2021). Non-suicidal self-injury and attachment trauma in adolescent inpatients with psychiatric disorders. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 111: 152273. doi: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2021.152273
Gander, M., Buchheim, A., Bock, A., Steppan, M., Sevecke, K. & Goth, K. (2020). Unresolved attachment mediates the relationship between childhood trauma and impaired personality functioning in adolescence. Journal of Personality Disorders, 34, 84-103. doi: 10.1521/pedi_2020_34_468
Zentner M, Biedermann V, Taferner C, da Cudan H, Möhler E, Strauß H, Sevecke K. (2020). Early detection of temperament risk factors: a comparison of clinically referred and general population of children. Front Psychiatry, 24 (12): 667503. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.667503. PMID: 34248704; PMCID: PMC8264422.
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