Schleicher, Daniel
Education | |
| since 05/2025 | Habilitation in the field of Experimental Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the Faculty of Medicine University of Regensburg |
| 05/2025 | Licensed as a psychological psychotherapist Acquisition of the additional qualification “Group therapy” (06/2025) |
| 10/2020 - 07/2024 | Doctorate for Dr. sc. hum. at the Department of Title of the dissertation: "Everyday stress experience and effectiveness of an app-guided relaxation exercise after acute stress - implications for a health app for stress management in childhood and adolescence" University of Regensburg |
| 09/2019 – 05/2025 | Training as a psychological psychotherapist in behavioral therapy Training Institute for Behavior Therapy Regensburg |
| 10/2018 - 01/2020 | Master of Arts Criminology and Violence Research University of Regensburg |
| 10/2017 - 07/2019 | Master of Science Psychology University of Regensburg |
| 10/2014 - 09/2017 | Bachelor of Science Psychology University of Regensburg |
Professional Activity | |
| since 07/2025 | Psychological psychotherapist at the Psychiatric Institute Outpatient Clinic of the Clinic and Polyclinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy at the University of Regensburg medbo distric hospital Regensburg |
| 02/2024 - 06/2025 | Psychologist at the Psychiatric Day Clinic of the Clinic and medbo distric hospital Regensburg |
| 12/2022 – 12/2023 | Psychotherapist in training at the Psychiatric Institute Outpatient Clinic and Day Clinic medbo Amberg |
| 07/2020 – 07/2023 | Psychotherapist in training in the teaching practice of Institute outpatient clinic of the Training Institute for Behavioral Therapy Regensburg |
| since 11/2019 | Research associate at the Department of University Hospital Regensburg |
| 04/2017 – 10/2019 | Student and Research Assistantat the Department of Medical Psychology, Psychological Diagnostics and Methodology University of Regensburg |
Research Interests? ? ? ? ? ?? | |
| Clinical psychology, neuropsychology, psychosocial stress research, forensic psychology, criminal psychology | |
Publications | |
| Ecker, A., Jarvers, I., Jacob, R., Kandsperger, S., Brunner, R., & Schleicher, D. (2025). Temperament and personality: Preliminary evidence of possible relationships with multifactorial stress reactivity in healthy adolescents. Frontiers in Psychology, 16, 1613000. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1613000 ? | |
| Rodríguez-Toscano, E., Schleicher, D., Ecker, A., Kandsperger, S., Brunner, R., & Jarvers, I. (2025). Exploring the mental health impact of COVID-19 on parents of young children: Anxiety, depression, and contributing factors. BMC Public Health, 25, 2174. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-025-23467-9 ? | |
| Baumann, N., Ecker, A., Schleicher, D., Kandsperger, S., Preece, D. A., Brunner, R., & Jarvers, I. (2025). The relationship between alexithymia, non-suicidal self-injury, and emotion regulation. Journal of Affective Disorders, 384, 60–68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2025.05.009 ? | |
| Jarvers, I., Heidingsfelder, E., Ecker, A., Kandsperger, S., Brunner, R., & Schleicher, D. (2025). Characteristics of self-injurious behaviour and early traumatic experiences: Associations with emotional reactivity, depression and aggression in university students. BJPsych Open, 11(2), e45. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2024.862 ? | |
| Ecker, A., Fritsch, C., Schleicher, D., Jacob, R., Kandsperger, S., Brunner, R., & Jarvers, I. (2025). The effect of a one-time mindfulness intervention on body and mind in healthy adolescents using multimodal measurements. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 15, 1503379. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1503379 ? | |
| Jarvers, I., Ecker, A., Donabauer, P., Kampa, K., Wei?enbacher, M., Schleicher, D., Kandsperger, S., Brunner, R., & Ludwig, B. (2024). M.I.N.I.-KID interviews with adolescents: A corpus-based language analysis of adolescents with depressive disorders and the possibilities of continuation using Chat GPT. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 15. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1425820 ? | |
| Jarvers I., Kormann E., Schleicher D., Ecker A., Kandsperger, S. & Brunner, R. (2024). Impact of alexithymia, speech problems and parental emotion recognition on internalizing and externalizing problems in preschoolers. PLoS ONE, 19(9): e0310244. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0310244 ? | |
| Ecker, A.,?Jarvers, I., Kocur, M., Kandsperger, S., Brunner, R. &?Schleicher, D.?(2024). Multifactorial stress reactivity to virtual TSST-C in healthy children and adolescents—It works, but not as well as a real TSST-C.?Psychoneuroendocrinology, 160, 106681. ? | |
| Kick, L.,?Schleicher, D.,?Ecker, A., Kandsperger, S., Brunner, R., & Jarvers, I. (2024). Alexithymia as a mediator between adverse childhood events and the development of psychopathology: a metaanalysis.?Front. Psychiatry,?15:1412229. ? | |
| Krempel, R., Jarvers, I., Ecker, A., Schleicher, D., Brunner, R., & Kandsperger, S. (2024). Sleep quality and the cortisol and alpha-amylase awakening responses in adolescents with depressive disorders. BJPsych Open, 10(5), e140. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2024.730 ? | |
| Schleicher, D., Jarvers, I., Kocur, M., Kandsperger, S., Brunner, R., & Ecker, A. (2024). Does it need an app?–Differences between app-guided breathing and natural relaxation in adolescents after acute stress. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 107148. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2024.107148 ? Jarvers, I., Ecker, A.,?Schleicher, D., Kandsperger, S., Otto, A., & Brunner, R. (2023).?Anorexia nervosa during COVID-19: loss of personal control and alexithymia as important contributors to symptomatology in adolescent girls.?Journal of Eating Disorders,?11, 180. ? Jarvers, I., Ecker, A.,?Schleicher, D., & Otto, A. (2023). The German COVID-19 Questionnaire for Anorexia Nervosa (COV-AN).? ? | |
| Jarvers, I., Ecker, A.,?Schleicher, D., Brunner, R., & Kandsperger, S. (2023). Impact of preschool attendance, parental stress and parental mental health on internalizing and externalizing problems during COVID-19 lockdown measures in preschool children.?PLoS One 8(2). ? | |
| Kandsperger, S., Ecker, A.,?Schleicher, D., Wirth, M., Brunner, R., & Jarvers, I. (2023). Emergency-related inpatient admissions in child and adolescent psychiatry: comparison of clinical characteristics of involunatry and voluntary admissions from a survey in Bavaria, Germany.?European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. ? | |
| Schleicher, D., Heidingsfelder, E., Kandsperger, S., Jarvers, I., Ecker, A., & Brunner, R. (2023). Non-suicidal self-injury and emotional burden among university students during the COVID-19 pandemic: Cross-sectional online survey.?BJPsych Open, 9(1), E1. ? | |
| Ecker, A., Jarvers, I.,?Schleicher, D., Kandsperger, S., Schelhorn, I., Meyer, M., Borchert, T., Lüdtke, M., & Shiban, Y. (2022) Problems or prospects? Being a parent in the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany.?Frontiers in psychology,?13. ? | |
| Kandsperger, S.,?Schleicher, D., Ecker, A., Keck, F., Bentheimer, S., Brunner, R., & Jarvers, I. (2022) Emotional reactivity in adolescents with non-suicidal self-injury and its predictors: a longitudinal study.?Frontiers in psychiatry,?13.? ? | |
| Jarvers, I., Kandsperger, S.,?Schleicher, D., Ando, A., Resch, F., Koenig, J., Kaess, M., & Brunner, R. (2022) The relationship between adolescents' externalizing and internalizing symptoms and brain development over a period of three years.?NeuroImage: Clinical, 103195.?https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2022.103195 ? | |
| Kandsperger, S., Madurkay, J.,?Schleicher, D., Otto, A., Ecker, A., Brunner, R., Jarvers, I.: Treatment Motivation and Burden of Stress among Parents of Adolescents with Non-Suicidal Self-Injury Presenting to a Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Emergency Service.?Psychopathology.?doi.org/10.1159/000526611 ? | |
| Schleicher, D.*, Ecker, A.*, Kocur, M., Jarvers, I., Nash, C., G?tz, L., Otto, A. H., Kandsperger, S. and Brunner, R. (2022). Psychosocial stress induction in vivo vs. in virtuo and the influence of a health app on the acute stress reaction in youths: a study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.?Trials?23, 847. ? | |
| Jarvers, I., Ecker, A.,?Schleicher, D., Otto, A., & Jarvers, C. (2022, April 26). The Alexithymia Questionnaire for Children – German version (AQC-G). ? | |
| Krempel, R.,?Schleicher, D., Jarvers, I., Ecker, A., Brunner, R., & Kandsperger, S. (2022). Sleep quality and neurohormonal and psychophysiological accompanying factors in adolescents with depressive disorders: Study protocol.?BJPsych Open,?8(2), E57. ? | |
| Schleicher, D., Jarvers, I., Raine, A., & Brunner, R. (2021, November 24). The Cognitive, Affective, and Somatic Empathy Scales – German version (CASES-G). Retrieved from?psyarxiv.com/e9vdj. ? | |
| Kandsperger, S., Jarvers, I.,?Schleicher, D., Ecker, A., Wirth, M., & Brunner, R. (2021). Suicidality presented to a Child and Adolescent Psychiatry emergency service: Increasing rate and changing characteristics.?Frontiers in Psychiatry,?12, 1195. ? | |
| Kandsperger, S., Jarvers, I., Ecker, A.,?Schleicher, D., Madurkay, J., Otto, A., & Brunner, R. (2021). Emotional Reactivity and Family-Related Factors Associated With Self-Injurious Behavior in Adolescents Presenting to a Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Emergency Service.?Frontiers in Psychiatry,?12, 913. ? | |
| Goetz, L., Jarvers, I.,?Schleicher, D., Mikan, K., Brunner, R., & Kandsperger, S. (2021). The role of the endogenous oxytocin system under psychosocial stress conditions in adolescents suffering from anxiety disorder: study protocol for a parallel group controlled trial.?BMC Psychology?9,?61.?doi.org/10.1186/s40359-021-00564-z.d | |
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