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Tobias Hecker is affiliated with Bielefeld University in Germany and has an extensive publication record in psychology and social sciences, with a particular focus on clinical psychology and related subfields. Their research encompasses areas such as child abuse and trauma, migration-related health and trauma issues, intimate partner and family violence, and the psychosocial development of children and adolescents.

Their recent publications include:

  • "A systematic review of socio-ecological factors contributing to risk and protection of the mental health of refugee children and adolescents" (2020) published in Clinical Psychology Review
  • "Gender differences in response to war-related trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder - a study among the Congolese refugees in Uganda" (2020) published in BMC Psychiatry
  • "Prevalence of violence by teachers and its association to students' emotional and behavioral problems and school performance: Findings from secondary school students and teachers in Turkey" (2020) published in Child Abuse & Neglect
  • "Barriers to accessing mental health care for refugees and asylum seekers in high-income countries: A scoping review of reviews mapping demand and supply-side factors onto a conceptual framework" (2024) published in Clinical Psychology Review
  • "Fuel to the fire: The escalating interplay of attachment and maltreatment in the transgenerational transmission of psychopathology in families living in refugee camps" (2020) published in Development and Psychopathology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Tobias Hecker include:

  • Florian Scharpf
  • Katharin Hermenau
  • Mabula Nkuba
  • Faustine Bwire Masath
  • Getrude Mkinga

Their work is regularly published in venues such as:

  • Child Abuse & Neglect
  • European Journal of Psychotraumatology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • BMC Public Health
  • Development and Psychopathology

Tobias Hecker's research fields primarily cover psychology and social sciences, with a dominant focus on clinical psychology. They also engage in subfields including general health professions, social psychology, health, and sociology and political science.

Their main research topics include:

  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Intimate Partner and Family Violence
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
  • Child Welfare and Adoption
  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research

Hecker has contributed to book publications as well, including a work titled Komplexe posttraumatische Belastungsstörung published by Referenz Psychische Störungen in 2021.

Best Publications

  • A systematic review of socio-ecological factors contributing to risk and protection of the mental health of refugee children and adolescents.

    Florian Scharpf;Elisa Kaltenbach;Angela Nickerson;Tobias Hecker

  • Corporal punishment and children's externalizing problems: A cross-sectional study of Tanzanian primary school aged children ☆

    Tobias Hecker;Katharin Hermenau;Dorothea Isele;Thomas Elbert

  • Broadening perspectives on trauma and recovery: a socio-interpersonal view of PTSD

    Andreas Maercker;Tobias Hecker

  • ICD-11 Prevalence Rates of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in a German Nationwide Sample.

    Andreas Maercker;Tobias Hecker;Tobias Hecker;Mareike Augsburger;Sören Kliem

  • Childhood adversity, mental ill-health and aggressive behavior in an African orphanage: Changes in response to trauma-focused therapy and the implementation of a new instructional system

    Katharin Hermenau;Tobias Hecker;Martina Ruf;Elisabeth Schauer

  • Harsh discipline relates to internalizing problems and cognitive functioning: findings from a cross-sectional study with school children in Tanzania

    Tobias Hecker;Tobias Hecker;Katharin Hermenau;Charlotte Salmen;Martin Teicher;Martin Teicher

  • Addressing Post-traumatic Stress and Aggression by Means of Narrative Exposure: A Randomized Controlled Trial with Ex-Combatants in the Eastern DRC

    Katharin Hermenau;Tobias Hecker;Susanne Schaal;Anna Maedl

  • When combat prevents PTSD symptoms—results from a survey with former child soldiers in Northern Uganda

    Roland Weierstall;Inga Schalinski;Anselm Crombach;Tobias Hecker

  • Maltreatment and mental health in institutional care : comparing early and late institutionalized children in Tanzania

    Katharin Hermenau;Tobias Hecker;Thomas Elbert;Martina Ruf-Leuschner

  • Growing up in armed groups: trauma and aggression among child soldiers in DR Congo

    Katharin Hermenau;Tobias Hecker;Anna Maedl;Maggie Schauer

  • Appetitive aggression in former combatants--derived from the ongoing conflict in DR Congo.

    Tobias Hecker;Katharin Hermenau;Anna Maedl;Thomas Elbert

  • The Cycle of Violence: Associations Between Exposure to Violence, Trauma-Related Symptoms and Aggression--Findings from Congolese Refugees in Uganda.

    Tobias Hecker;Tobias Hecker;Simon Fetz;Herbert Ainamani;Thomas Elbert;Thomas Elbert

  • Does perpetrating violence damage mental health? Differences between forcibly recruited and voluntary combatants in DR Congo.

    Tobias Hecker;Katharin Hermenau;Anna Maedl;Harald Hinkel

  • Differential Associations Among PTSD and Complex PTSD Symptoms and Traumatic Experiences and Postmigration Difficulties in a Culturally Diverse Refugee Sample

    Tobias Hecker;Tobias Hecker;Stephanie Huber;Thomas Maier;Andreas Maercker

  • Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in the Kivu Provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo : Insights from Former Combatants

    Thomas Elbert;Harald Hinkel;Anna Maedl;Katharin Hermenau

  • Does prenatal stress shape postnatal resilience? - An epigenome-wide study on violence and mental health in humans

    Fernanda Serpeloni;Fernanda Serpeloni;Karl M. Radtke;Tobias Hecker;Johanna Sill

  • Reducing violence by teachers using the preventative intervention Interaction Competencies with Children for Teachers (ICC-T): A cluster randomized controlled trial at public secondary schools in Tanzania.

    Mabula Nkuba;Katharin Hermenau;Katharina Goessmann;Tobias Hecker

  • Gender differences in response to war-related trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder - a study among the Congolese refugees in Uganda

    Herbert E. Ainamani;Herbert E. Ainamani;Herbert E. Ainamani;Thomas Elbert;David Kani Olema;Tobias Hecker

  • Neglect and perceived stigmatization impact psychological distress of orphans in Tanzania

    Katharin Hermenau;Ina Eggert;Markus A. Landolt;Tobias Hecker

  • Teachers' stress intensifies violent disciplining in Tanzanian secondary schools

    Tobias Hecker;Katharina Goessmann;Mabula Nkuba;Katharin Hermenau

  • PTSD symptom severity relates to cognitive and psycho-social dysfunctioning – a study with Congolese refugees in Uganda

    Herbert E. Ainamani;Thomas Elbert;David K. Olema;Tobias Hecker

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Elbert
Thomas Elbert University of Konstanz
Andreas Maercker
Andreas Maercker University of Zurich
Maggie Schauer
Maggie Schauer University of Konstanz
Markus A. Landolt
Markus A. Landolt University of Zurich
Frank Neuner
Frank Neuner Bielefeld University
Tanja Michael
Tanja Michael Saarland University
Thomas Ehring
Thomas Ehring Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Birgit Kleim
Birgit Kleim University of Zurich
Falk Kiefer
Falk Kiefer Heidelberg University
Soraya Seedat
Soraya Seedat Stellenbosch University

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