Curriculum vitae

Professional appointments

Since 12/2019
Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology, Managing Director of the Center of Learning, Development and Counseling, University of Münster

10/2014-12/2019
Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Münster
Managing Director of the Counseling Lab, University of Münster

10/2010 – 09/2014
Research Associate, Department of Psychology, University of Münster

05/2008 – 02/2011
Research Associate (Project „ViSC Program - Fostering social and intercultural competencies in schools”), Department of Economic Psychology, Educational Psychology & Evaluation, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Education

2014
PhD. in Psychology (summa cum laude), Universität of Vienna, Austria

2011
University Degree as Clinical and Health Psychologist, University of Vienna, Austria

2008
Diploma in Psychology, Universität of Vienna, Austria

Grants

2015 -2016
Scholarship of the University of Münster for the Postdoctoral Mentoring Program “First-Class”

Reviewer

• Child Development
• European Journal of Developmental Psychology
• European Journal of Social Psychology
• International Journal of Conflict and Violence
• Journal of Psychology
• Prevention Science
• Social Development

Memberships

DGPs - German Psychological Society

BDP - The German Association of Psychologists

EADP - European Association for Developmental Psychology

Research

• Socio-emotional development in children  and adolescents
• Development of culture-sensitive approaches for counseling and early childhood development programs
• Prevention of (sexual) violence in adolescence 

Publications

Journal articles (peer-reviewed)

Nestler, C., Endres, A., & Schiller, E.-M. (2022). Schulbasierte Prävention der missbräuchlichen Verbreitung freizügiger Fotos im Internet: Konzeption und Evaluation des SPuR-Programms. [School-based prevention of the abusive dissemination of sexually explicit images on the Internet: Development and Evaluation of the SPuR Program]. Praxis der Kinderpsychologie und Kinderpsychiatrie, 71, 361-382. https://doi.org/10.13109/prkk.2022.71.4.362

Rathgeber, M., Bürkner P. C. , Schiller, E.-M., & Holling, H. (2019). The efficacy of emotionally focused couples therapy and behavioral couples therapy: A meta-analysis. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 45(3), 447-463. https://doi.org/10.1111/jmft.12336

Muck, C., Schiller, E.-M., Zimmermann, M., & Kärtner, J. (2018). Preventing sexual violence in adolescence: Comparison of a scientist-practitioner and a practitioner program using a cluster-randomized design. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260518755488

Silkenbeumer, J. R., Schiller, E.-M., & Kärtner, J. (2018). Co- and self-regulation of emotions in the preschool setting. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 44, 72-81. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecresq.2018.02.014

Muck, C., Schiller, E.-M., & Kärtner (2018). Prävention sexualisierter Gewalt im Jugendalter – Evaluationsstudie zur Wirkung zweier schulischer Präventionsprogramme auf Disclosurebereitschaft und Viktimisierungserleben. [Prevention of sexual violence in adolescence – Effects of two school-based prevention programs on disclosure and victimization]. Zeitschrift für Soziologie der Erziehung und Sozialisation. 38(2), 118-134.

Schiller, E.-M., Strohmeier, D. & Spiel, C. (2017). Theoretical framework, factorial structure and measurement invariance of the Video Game Playing Motives Questionnaire (VGPM-Q) for preadolescents. Psychological Test and Assessment Modeling, 59 (3), 297-315.

Silkenbeumer, J. R., Schiller, E.-M., Holodynski, M., & Kärtner, J. (2016). The role of co-regulation for the development of social-emotional competence. Journal of Self-Regulation and Regulation, 2, 17-32.

Schöllhorn, A., Borke, J., Schiller, E.-M., & Kärtner, J. (2016). Beratung mit Familien aus unterschiedlichen kulturellen Kontexten. Ein Prozessmodell zur kultursensitiven Beratung für Familien mit Säuglingen und Kleinkindern. Familiendynamik. Systemische Praxis und Forschung, 41, 284-292. https://doi.org/10.21706/fd-41-4-284

Lemmer, G., Gollwitzer, M., Schiller, E.-M., Strohmeier, D., Banse, R., & Spiel, C. (2015). On the psychometric properties of the Aggressiveness-IAT for children and adolescents. Aggressive Behavior, 41(1), 84-95. https://doi.org/10.1002/ab.21575

Schiller, E.-M., Gradinger, P., & Strohmeier, D. (2014). Nutzung gewalthaltiger Bildschirmspiele als längsschnittlicher Risikofaktor für Cyberbullying in der frühen Adoleszenz. Diskurs Kindheits- und Jugendforschung, 1, 39-59.

Strohmeier, D., Hoffmann, C., Schiller, E.-M., Stefanek, E. & Spiel, C. (2012). ViSC Social Competence Program. New Directions for Youth Development, 133, 71-84. https://doi.org/10.1002/yd.20008

Gradinger, P., Strohmeier, D., Schiller, E.-M., Stefanek, E. & Spiel, C. (2012). Cyber victimization and popularity in early adolescence: Stability and predictive associations. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 9(2), 228-243.

Schiller, E.-M., Strohmeier, D., & Spiel, C. (2009). Risiko Video- und Computerspiele? Eine Studie über Video- und Computerspielnutzung und Aggression bei 12- und 16-jährigen Jugendlichen. Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Bildungswissenschaften, 31(1), 75-98.

Monographs and book chapters

Schiller, E.-M., Silkenbeumer, J., Gwiasda, A., & Kärtner, J. (2023). Gefühle. Gemeinsam. Teilen. Soziale und emotionale Kompetenzen alltagsintegriert fördern: Das KoKit-Beratungskonzept. [Emotions. Together. Sharing. Promoting social and emotional competences: The KoKit counselling concept.] Springer.

Borke, J., Schiller, E.-M., Schöllhorn, A., & Kärtner, J. (2015). Kultur, Entwicklung, Beratung. Kultursensitive Therapie und Beratung für Familien mit Säuglingen und Kleinkindern. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.

Nass, J.R., Schiller, E.-M., & Kärtner, J. (2015). Von der Koregulation zur Selbstregulation: Entwicklungsförderliche Begleitung sozial-emotionaler Kompetenz in Kindertagesstätten. In T. Malti & S. Perren (Eds.), Soziale Kompetenz bei Kindern und Jugendlichen. Entwicklungsprozesse und Förderungsmöglichkeiten, 2. Auflage (S. 208-226). Stuttgart: Kohlhammer

Schiller, E.-M., Schultes, M.-T., Strohmeier, D. & Spiel, C. (2011). Gaming and aggression: The importance of age-appropriateness in violent video games. In E. Dunkels, G.-M. Franberg & C. Hällgren (Hrsg.), Youth Culture and Net Culture: Online Social Practices (S. 316 - 337). Hershey, PA: IGI Global.

Journal articles (not peer-reviewed)

Schiller, E.-M., Endres, A., & Nestler, C. (2023). Digitale Verbreitung intimer Fotos.
Jugendliche befähigen, sich zu schützen. Kinderärztliche Praxis. Soziale Pädiatrie und Jugendmedizin, 94, 38 – 40.

Muck, C., Schiller, E.-M., & Beckmann, B. (2013). Wirkt Prävention sexualisierter Gewalt im Jugendalter? Evaluation der kurzfristigen Effekte einer schulischen Präventionsmaßnahme. Kindesmisshandlung und -vernachlässigung. Interdisziplinäre Fachzeitschrift für Prävention und Intervention, 16 (2), 168-181.

Strohmeier, D., Schiller, E.-M., Stefanek, E., Hoffmann, C., & Spiel, C. (2012). Bildung und Schule: WiSK Programm - Förderung sozialer und interkultureller Kompetenzen in Schulen. Psychologie in Österreich, 5, 390-395.

Spiel, C., Strohmeier, D., Stefanek, E., & Schiller E.-M. (2010). Integration von Migrantinnen und Migranten in multikulturellen Schulen. Tagungsband „Ressourcen im Blick“, (pp. 85-95). Klagenfurt: Pro Mente Österreich.

Teaching

Undergraduate Courses in Psychology, University of Münster

• Adolescent development
• Aggression and adaptation
• Cognitive development
• Cyberbullying and sexual violence in the media: Prevention and intervention
• Emotional and social development: Prevention, counseling, and intervention for developmental disabilities and disorders.
• Development of prosocial and aggressive behavior in children and adolescents
• Diagnostic interviewing
• Media use in children and adolescents: Media effects and media literacy
• Moral development in childhood and adolescence
• Promoting social-emotional learning in early childhood education
• Promoting social-emotional competencies: Development and implementation of intervention strategies in preschool
• Promoting social competencies and violence prevention
• Socio-cognitive development in different cultures

Graduate Courses in Psychology, University of Münster

• Counselling in early education and care setting
• Counselling psychology in Practice
• Counselling processes and evaluation
• Counselling and development
• Cultural diversity in early education and care
• Developing counselling concepts for promoting social-emotional competencies
• Intervention research and counselling in developmental psychology
• Refugee children in early education and care setting: Development and counselling

Undergraduate Courses in Midwifery Sciences (University of Muenster)

• Professional communication and relationships

Other Graduate Courses

• Intercultural awareness and competence, University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria
• Human rights in practice, University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria
• Violence in schools, University of Vienna

Postgraduate Courses

• Violence prevention in educational settings, Donau University Krems