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Thomas Forkmann is affiliated with the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with a significant volume of work in clinical psychology and related subfields. Thomas Forkmann's contributions span multiple areas including clinical psychology, psychiatry and mental health, social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and sociology and political science.

The scientist's main research topics cover suicide and self-harm studies, psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, mental health treatment and access, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment and cognitive processes, broader mental health research topics, and issues related to homicide, infanticide, and child abuse.

Thomas Forkmann has published extensively in notable venues such as:

  • Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior
  • Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy
  • Verhaltenstherapie
  • PsycTESTS Dataset
  • PPmP - Psychotherapie · Psychosomatik · Medizinische Psychologie

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Thomas Forkmann are:

  • Interpersonal theory of suicide: prospective examination, 2020, BJPsych Open
  • Defeat, entrapment, and suicidal ideation: Twelve-month trajectories, 2021, Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior
  • Child abuse and suicidality in the context of the Interpersonal Psychological Theory of Suicide: A network analysis, 2021, British Journal of Clinical Psychology
  • Do Feelings of Defeat and Entrapment Change over Time? An Investigation of the Integrated Motivational-Volitional Model of Suicidal Behaviour Using Ecological Momentary Assessments, 2020, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Skala Suizidales Erleben und Verhalten (SSEV), 2021, Diagnostica

The scientist frequently collaborates with the following researchers:

  • Tobias Teismann
  • Heide Glaesmer
  • Inken Höller
  • Dajana Rath
  • Laura Paashaus

Best Publications

  • Assessment of depression severity with the PHQ-9 in cancer patients and in the general population.

    Andreas Hinz;Anja Mehnert;Rüya-Daniela Kocalevent;Elmar Brähler;Elmar Brähler

  • Predicting suicidal ideation by interpersonal variables, hopelessness and depression in real-time. An ecological momentary assessment study in psychiatric inpatients with depression.

    N. Hallensleben;H. Glaesmer;T. Forkmann;D. Rath

  • Making sense of what you sense: Disentangling interoceptive awareness, sensibility and accuracy

    Thomas Forkmann;Anne Scherer;Judith Meessen;Matthias Michal

  • The Clinical Global Impression Scale and the influence of patient or staff perspective on outcome.

    Thomas Forkmann;Anne Scherer;Maren Boecker;Markus Pawelzik

  • Assessing suicidality in real time: A psychometric evaluation of self-report items for the assessment of suicidal ideation and its proximal risk factors using ecological momentary assessments.

    Thomas Forkmann;Lena Spangenberg;Dajana Rath;Nina Hallensleben

  • Positive mental health moderates the association between depression and suicide ideation: A longitudinal study

    Tobias Teismann;Thomas Forkmann;Julia Brailovskaia;Paula Siegmann

  • Effects of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy on self-reported suicidal ideation: results from a randomised controlled trial in patients with residual depressive symptoms

    Thomas Forkmann;Marieke Wichers;Nicole Geschwind;Frenk Peeters

  • Investigating the Dynamics of Suicidal Ideation.

    Nina Hallensleben;Lena Spangenberg;Thomas Forkmann;Dajana Rath

  • Prevalence of suicidal ideation and related risk factors in the German general population

    Thomas Forkmann;Elmar Brähler;Siegfried Gauggel;Heide Glaesmer

  • Resilience to suicide ideation: A cross-cultural test of the buffering hypothesis

    Paula Siegmann;Tobias Teismann;Nathalie Fritsch;Thomas Forkmann

  • Development and validation of the Rasch-based Depression Screening (DESC) using Rasch analysis and structural equation modelling.

    Thomas Forkmann;Maren Boecker;Markus Wirtz;Nicole Eberle

  • Development of an item bank for the assessment of depression in persons with mental illnesses and physical diseases using Rasch analysis.

    Thomas Forkmann;Maren Boecker;Christine Norra;Nicole Eberle

  • Effects of alcohol cue exposure on response inhibition in detoxified alcohol-dependent patients.

    Siegfried Gauggel;Anne Heusinger;Thomas Forkmann;Maren Boecker

  • Dimensional assessment of depressive severity in the elderly general population: psychometric evaluation of the PHQ-9 using Rasch Analysis.

    Thomas Forkmann;Siegfried Gauggel;Lena Spangenberg;Elmar Brähler

  • The Relation of Cognitive Reappraisal and Expressive Suppression to Suicidal Ideation and Suicidal Desire

    Thomas Forkmann;Anne Scherer;Maren Böcker;Markus Pawelzik

  • The German version of the Interpersonal Needs Questionnaire (INQ) – Dimensionality, psychometric properties and population-based norms

    N. Hallensleben;L. Spangenberg;N.D. Kapusta;T. Forkmann

  • Remission of suicidal thoughts: findings from a longitudinal epidemiological study

    Tobias Teismann;Thomas Forkmann;Heide Glaesmer;Leonie Egeri

  • A mediation model of mindfulness and decentering: sequential psychological constructs or one and the same?

    Judith Gecht;Ramona Kessel;Thomas Forkmann;Siegfried Gauggel

  • Modelling suicide ideation from beep to beep: Application of network analysis to ecological momentary assessment data.

    Dajana Rath;Derek de Beurs;Nina Hallensleben;Lena Spangenberg

  • The association of depression and multimorbidity in the elderly: implications for the assessment of depression.

    Lena Spangenberg;Thomas Forkmann;Elmar Brähler;Heide Glaesmer

  • Validation of the Rasch-based Depression Screening in a large scale German general population sample

    Thomas Forkmann;Maren Boecker;Markus Wirtz;Heide Glaesmer

  • Positive mental health moderates the association between depression and suicide ideation

    Tobias Teismann;Thomas Forkmann;Julia Brailovskaia;Paula Siegmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Heide Glaesmer
Heide Glaesmer Leipzig University
Siegfried Gauggel
Siegfried Gauggel RWTH Aachen University
Georg Juckel
Georg Juckel Ruhr University Bochum
Elmar Brähler
Elmar Brähler Leipzig University
Julia Brailovskaia
Julia Brailovskaia Ruhr University Bochum
Anette Kersting
Anette Kersting Leipzig University
Stefan Sütterlin
Stefan Sütterlin Østfold University College
Jürgen Margraf
Jürgen Margraf Ruhr University Bochum
Johannes Michalak
Johannes Michalak Witten/Herdecke University
Harald Baumeister
Harald Baumeister University of Ulm

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