Profile

Professional career

• since 04/2016
  Professor (W2) | Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology |Department of Psychology | Leipzig University
• 04/2015 - 01/2016
  Clinical Psychologist | Outpatient Clinic | Department for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry | Urban Hospital Holweide, Cologne
• 01/2013 - 12/2014
  Clinical Psychologist | Outpatient Clinic | Department for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry | University Medical Center Freiburg
• 05/2012 - 10/2014
  Post-Doc | Department for Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy | Freiburg University
• 11/2008 - 05/2012
  Ph.D. in Clinical Child Psychology | Freiburg University | Supported through a Ph.D. grant by the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation (FES)
• 04/2012 - 10/2013
  Practical work as a psychologist in training | University Hospital Freiburg | Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry | outpatient, acute care and day clinic areas
• 01/2011 - 12/2011
  Research Fellow | Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) | Freiburg University
• 10/2008 - 05/2012
  Research Fellow and Post-Graduate Research Assistant | Department for Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy | Freiburg University
• 01/2008 - 12/2016
  Supervisor | Nightline Freiburg - Student Counselling Telephone

Education

• 01/2013 - 12/2013
  Training as a Triple P and Triple P Teen Group Trainer | Positive Parenting Program
• 10/2011 - 10/2017
  Training as child and adolescent psychotherapist in behavior therapy | Freiburg training institute FAKIP || AKIP Cologne
• 01/2006 - 12/2008
  Training in client-centered consulting according to the guidelines of the German Association for Conversational Psychotherapy (GWG)
• 10/2002 - 09/2008
  Diploma in Psychology |Marburg University || Freiburg University | Topic of Diploma thesis: "Post-event Processing in Children with Social Phobia"

One of Julian Schmitz's main research interests is the topic "Social Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents". In his studies he uses modern research methods (e.g. eye tracking and EEG).

He is a reviewer for various journals (Frontiers in Psychiatry, Child Psychiatry and Human Development, Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Biological Psychology, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Psychoneuroendocrinology, PLOS One, Pharmacopsychiatry, JMED Research, Journal of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Cognition and Emotion, Development and Psychopathology, Psychiatry Research, Anxiety Stress and Coping, Frontiers in Psychology, Emotion, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)).

• Social anxiety disorder in childhood and adolescence: Attentional, neurophysiological and cognitive correlates of emotional reactivity and emotional regulation

  Schmitz, Julian

  Duration: 10/2020 – 09/2023

  Funded by: DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Klinische Kinder- und Jugendpsychologie
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• Emotion regulation in social phobia during childhood: The influence of attentional processing and cognitive-behavioral regulation

  Tuschen-Caffier, Brunna

  Duration: 01/2014 – 12/2018

  Funded by: DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Klinische Kinder- und Jugendpsychologie
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• Monitor Education and Mental Health

  Schmitz, Julian

  Duration: 01/2023 – 12/2026

  Funded by: Stiftungen Inland

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Pädagogische Psychologie mit dem Schwerpunkt Lehren, Lernen und Entwicklung
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• Risikobewertung bei Kindern psyschisch kranker Eltern - Effekte qualitativ hochwertiger elterlicher Psychotherapie und eines zusätzlichen Elterntrainings auf die Gesundheit Ihrer Kinder

  Schmitz, Julian

  Duration: 04/2019 – 09/2021

  Funded by: Fördergesellschaften

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Klinische Kinder- und Jugendpsychologie
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more projects

• Fink-Lamotte, J. E.; Svensson, F. L.; Schmitz, J.; Exner, C.

  Are you looking or looking away? Visual exploration and avoidance of disgust- and fear-stimuli; An eye-tracking study

  Emotion. 2022. pp. 1909–1918.

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000993
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• Rodney-Wolf, K.; Schmitz, J.

  Scoping review: longitudinal effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on child and adolescent mental health

  European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. 2023.

  DOI: 10.1007/s00787-023-02206-8
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• Lidle, L. R.; Schmitz, J.

  Assessing Visual Avoidance of Faces During Real-Life Social Stress in Children with Social Anxiety Disorder: A Mobile Eye-Tracking Study

  Child Psychiatry & Human Development. 2022.

  DOI: 10.1007/s10578-022-01383-y
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• Plötner, M.; Moldt, K.; In-Albon, T.; Schmitz, J.

  Einfluss der COVID-19-Pandemie auf die ambulante psychotherapeutische Versorgung von Kindern und Jugendlichen

  Die Psychotherapie . 2022. pp. 469–477.

  DOI: 10.1007/s00278-022-00604-y
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• Runge, R. A.; Glaesmer, H.; Schmitz, J.; Nesterko, Y.

  Mental Health in Children of Immigrants in Germany: The Role of Socio-Demographic and Immigration-Related Characteristics

  Journal of child and family studies. 2022. pp. 155–168.

  DOI: 10.1007/s10826-021-02141-9
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more publications

• Andere herausragende Auszeichnungen: Auszeichnung im Rahmen des Academics-Preises "Nachwuchswissenschaftler des Jahres"

  Schmitz, Julian (Klinische Kinder- und Jugendpsychologie)

  awarded in 2012 by ZEIT Magazin und Deutscher Hochschulverband .
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• Andere Stipendien/Forschungspreise: Promotionsstipendium

  Schmitz, Julian (Klinische Kinder- und Jugendpsychologie)

  awarded in 2009 by Friedrich Ebert Stiftung .
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