Welcome to the website of the Chair of Developmental Psychology and Clinical Psychology of the Lifespan!
Developmental psychology is concerned with describing and explaining the chronological, successive changes in human experience and behavior over the entire lifespan. The lifespan approach therefore encompasses the developmental processes in childhood and adolescence as well as in middle and old adulthood. Important functional areas in which developmental processes are researched are cognitive (perception, thinking, memory, language), emotional, motivational and social functions.
Our research profile
In our research, we are primarily concerned with two topics: Self-regulation and reminiscence.
We look at both from a life-span approach and from both a basic and an applied focus. Some of our projects are located at the intersection between lifespan psychology (including gerontopsychology) and clinical psychology, for example when it comes to the role of self-regulation for cognitive and affective health or interventions to use reminiscence processes to increase well-being.
Main research areas
- Basic psychological research in childhood and adolescence
- Basic research in life-span psychology
- Applied research in lifespan psychology
- Interdisciplinary ageing research (in the context of the Gerontology Network Siegen, GeNeSi)
Professur für Entwicklungspsychologie und Klinische Psychologie der Lebensspanne
Contact
Postal address
Universität Siegen
Fakultät II - Department Psychologie
Prof. Dr. Simon Forstmeier
Sekretariat Reinhardt/Thielmann
Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 2
57076 Siegen
Visitor address
Universität Siegen
Department Psychologie
AR-NB 124
Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 2a
57076 Siegen
Secretariat
Im Sekretariat stehen Ihnen Elke Reinhardt und Andrea Thielmann als Ansprechpartnerinnen zur Verfügung. Sie beantworten allgemeine Fragen und vermitteln Sie bei spezifischen Problemen und Fragen an die betreffenden Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter weiter.
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