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Overview

Regina Steil is affiliated with Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany and has contributed extensively to the field of psychology, with a particular focus on clinical psychology. Their research encompasses areas such as child abuse and trauma, posttraumatic stress disorder, migration, health and trauma, and psychosocial and emotional development in children and adolescents.

They have published numerous papers in prominent journals, including recent works such as:

  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (DBT-PTSD) Compared With Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) in Complex Presentations of PTSD in Women Survivors of Childhood Abuse, 2020, JAMA Psychiatry
  • Influence of Severity of Type and Timing of Retrospectively Reported Childhood Maltreatment on Female Amygdala and Hippocampal Volume, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Treating adults with a dual diagnosis of borderline personality disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder related to childhood abuse: Results from a randomized clinical trial., 2021, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
  • A clinician rating to diagnose CPTSD according to ICD-11 and to evaluate CPTSD symptom severity: Complex PTSD Item Set additional to the CAPS (COPISAC), 2021, European journal of psychotraumatology
  • Health-Related Quality of Life and Costs of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Adolescents and Young Adults in Germany, 2020, Frontiers in Psychiatry

Frequent collaborators in their research include Meike Müller-Engelmann, Rita Rosner, Kathlen Priebe, Nikolaus Kleindienst, and Babette Renneberg. These collaborations contribute to the interdisciplinary nature of Steil's work and connect different aspects of psychological trauma and therapeutic interventions.

Their work has been published prominently in venues such as the European journal of psychotraumatology, BMC Psychiatry, Verhaltenstherapie, PsycTESTS Dataset, and JAMA Psychiatry.

Steil has also contributed to academic literature through book publications, including a title in the series "Manuale zu Testverfahren und Fragebögen" with the "CAPS-5 Manual" published in 2023.

Their research covers several key topics:

  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications

Steil's fields of study further include multiple subfields, predominately Clinical Psychology, but also Social Psychology, General Health Professions, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Psychiatry and Mental health.

Best Publications

  • The short version of the Borderline Symptom List (BSL-23): development and initial data on psychometric properties.

    Martin Bohus;Nikolaus Kleindienst;Matthias F. Limberger;Rolf-Dieter Stieglitz

  • Maintenance of Intrusive Memories in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Cognitive Approach

    Anke Ehlers;Regina Steil

  • The nature of intrusive memories after trauma: the warning signal hypothesis.

    Anke Ehlers;Ann Hackmann;Regina Steil;Sue Clohessy

  • Dysfunctional meaning of posttraumatic intrusions in chronic PTSD

    Regina Steil;Anke Ehlers

  • Dialectical behaviour therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder after childhood sexual abuse in patients with and without borderline personality disorder: a randomised controlled trial.

    Martin Bohus;Anne S Dyer;Kathlen Priebe;Antje Krüger

  • Dialectical behavior therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder related to childhood sexual abuse: a pilot study of an intensive residential treatment program.

    Regina Steil;Anne Dyer;Kathlen Priebe;Nikolaus Kleindienst

  • A meta-analytic review of the efficacy of drug treatment in generalized anxiety disorder.

    Kristin Mitte;Peter Noack;Regina Steil;Martin Hautzinger

  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (DBT-PTSD) Compared With Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) in Complex Presentations of PTSD in Women Survivors of Childhood Abuse: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

    Martin Bohus;Martin Bohus;Nikolaus Kleindienst;Christopher Hahn;Meike Müller-Engelmann

  • Psychological Treatments for Symptoms of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults: A Meta-Analysis

    Jana Gutermann;Franziska Schreiber;Simone Matulis;Laura Schwartzkopff

  • Aetiology and treatment of nightmare disorder: State of the art and future perspectives

    Annika Gieselmann;Malik Ait Aoudia;Michelle Carr;Anne Germain

  • Specificity of affective instability in patients with borderline personality disorder compared to posttraumatic stress disorder, bulimia nervosa, and healthy controls.

    Philip Santangelo;Iris Reinhard;Lutz Mussgay;Regina Steil

  • Efficacy of psychological interventions aiming to reduce chronic nightmares: a meta-analysis.

    Kathrin Hansen;Volkmar Höfling;Tana Kröner-Borowik;Ulrich Stangier

  • The Psychometric Properties of the Kentucky Inventory of Mindfulness Skills in Clinical Populations.

    Corinna Baum;Willem Kuyken;Martin Bohus;Thomas Heidenreich

  • State dissociation moderates response to dialectical behavior therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder in women with and without borderline personality disorder

    Nikolaus Kleindienst;Kathlen Priebe;Nora Görg;Anne Dyer

  • Disgust and implicit self-concept in women with borderline personality disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder.

    Nicolas Rüsch;Nicolas Rüsch;Daniela Schulz;Gabi Valerius;Regina Steil

  • Discrepancies between implicit and explicit self-esteem among adolescents with social anxiety disorder

    Franziska Schreiber;Christiane Bohn;Idan M. Aderka;Ulrich Stangier

  • Pain sensitivity is reduced in borderline personality disorder, but not in posttraumatic stress disorder and bulimia nervosa.

    Christian Schmahl;Miriam Meinzer;Andrea Zeuch;Manfred Fichter

  • Developmentally adapted cognitive processing therapy for adolescents suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder after childhood sexual or physical abuse: a pilot study.

    Simone Matulis;Patricia A. Resick;Rita Rosner;Regina Steil

  • Kurzversion der Borderline-Symptom-Liste (BSL-23): Entwicklung und Überprüfung der psychometrischen Eigenschaften

    Martina Wolf;Matthias F. Limberger;Nikolaus Kleindienst;Rolf-Dieter Stieglitz

  • Effect of Developmentally Adapted Cognitive Processing Therapy for Youth With Symptoms of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder After Childhood Sexual and Physical Abuse: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

    Rita Rosner;Eline Rimane;Ulrich Frick;Jana Gutermann

Frequent Co-Authors

Rita Rosner
Rita Rosner Catholic University of America
Martin Bohus
Martin Bohus Central Institute of Mental Health
Nikolaus Kleindienst
Nikolaus Kleindienst Heidelberg University
Ulrich Stangier
Ulrich Stangier Goethe University Frankfurt
Babette Renneberg
Babette Renneberg Freie Universität Berlin
Christian Schmahl
Christian Schmahl Heidelberg University
Thomas Fydrich
Thomas Fydrich Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Patricia A. Resick
Patricia A. Resick Duke University
Anke Ehlers
Anke Ehlers University of Oxford
Winfried Rief
Winfried Rief Philipp University of Marburg

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