• 2018 – Approbation als Psychologischer Psychotherapeut

• 2013 – Diplom Psychologie an der Universität Potsdam

  • Titel der Diplomarbeit: „Predictive Validity of Dimensional versus Prototypical Approaches to Personality Description - Application of Nonlinear and Probabilistic Clustering Algorithms in the German SOEP Sample“ 

• 2009 – Bachelor of Science Cognitive Science an der Universität Osnabrück

  • Titel der Bachelorarbeit: „Neural Correlates of Introjection - A fMRI Study on Self-Chosen vs Imposed Goals“

 

Wissenschaftlicher Werdegang

Seit 2017: Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter im Arbeitsbereich Klinisch-Psychologische Intervention, Freie Universität Berlin

 

Psychotherapeutische Tätigkeit

Seit 2019: In Ausbildung zur 2. Fachkunde am Berliner Institut für Psychoanalyse und Psychotherapie (BIPP) - Schwerpunkt Psychoanalyse und Tiefenpsychologische Psychotherapie

Seit 2018: Tätigkeit in psychotherapeutischer Praxis (Linienstraße 130, 10115 Berlin)

2015 - 2018 Durchführung von Kurzzeit- und Langzeittherapien unter Supervision

2015 - 2016 Parkklinik Sophie Charlotte Berlin - Fachklinik für Psychiatrie und Psychosomatik

2013 - 2014 Psychotherapeutische Ambulanz der DGVT

2013 - 2018 Ausbildung zum Psychologischen Psychotherapeuten am Ausbildungszentrum der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Verhaltenstherapie (DGVT) Berlin - Schwerpunkt Verhaltenstherapie

Veröffentlichungen in Fachzeitschriften mit Peer-Review

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2023

Beintner, I., Kerber, A., Dominke, C., Voderholzer, U. (2023). App-based self-guided self-management to improve mild to moderate depression: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. JMIR Research Protocols. http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/46651

Kerber, A., Beintner, I., Burchert, S., J., Knaevelsrud, C. (2023). Effects of a self-guided transdiagnostic smartphone app on patient empowerment and mental health: A randomized controlled trial. JMIR Mental Health. http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/45068

Kerber, A., Gewehr, E., Zimmermann, J., Sachser, C., M. Fegert, J., Knaevelsrud, C., & Spitzer, C. (2023). Adverse childhood experiences and personality functioning interact substantially in predicting depression, anxiety, and somatization. Personality and Mental Health, 1– 13. https://doi.org/10.1002/pmh.1578

Macina*, C., Kerber*, A., Zimmermann, J., Ohse, L., Kampe, L., Mohr, J., Walter, M., Hörz-Sagstetter, S. & Wrege, J. S. (2023). Evaluating the Psychometric Properties of the German Self and Interpersonal Functioning Scale (SIFS). Journal of Personality Assessment. https://doi.org/10.1080/00223891.2023.2268199

Mazreku, G., Birkhoelzer, M., Cosgun, S., Kerber, A., Schmeck, K., Goth, K. (2023). Impaired Personality Functioning in Children and Adolescents assessed with the LoPF-Q 6–18 PR in Parent-Report and Convergence with Maladaptive Personality Traits and Personality Structure in School and Clinic Samples. Children. https://doi.org/10.3390/children10071186

Ohse, L., Zimmermann, J., Kerber, A., Kampe, L., Mohr, J., Schierz, R., Rentrop, M., Dziobek, I., & Hörz-Sagstetter, S. (2023). Impairments in Cognitive and Emotional Empathy as Markers of General vs. Specific Personality Pathology. Psychopathology. https://doi.org/10.1159/000533861 

2022

Ohse, L., Zimmermann, J., Kerber, A., Kampe, L., Mohr, J., Kendlbacher, J., Busch, O., Rentrop, M., & Hörz-Sagstetter, S. (2022). Reliability, structure, and validity of module I (personality functioning) of the Structured Clinical Interview for the alternative DSM–5 model for personality disorders (SCID-5-AMPD-I). Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment. Advance online publication. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/per0000576 

Semmlinger, V., Burchert, S., Ehring, T., Glaesmer, H., Hammelrath, L., Heim, E., Kampisiou, C., Kerber, A., Knaevelsrud, C., Schönfelder, A. & Sierau, S. (2022). Kulturell adaptierte Diagnostik und Intervention, Dropout und Datenmanagement. Trauma & Gewalt, 16(3), 188-197. https://doi.org/10.21706/tg-16-3-188

Quirin, M.*, Kerber, A.*, Küstermann, E., Radtke, E.L., Kazén, M., Konrad, C., Baumann, N., Ryan, R.M., Ennis, M. and Kuhl, J. (2022). Not the Master of Your Volitional Mind? The Roles of the Right Medial Prefrontal Cortex and Personality Traits in Unconscious Introjections Versus Self-Chosen Goals. Frontiers in Psychology, 13:740925. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.740925 

*shared first authorship

2021

Burchert, S., Kerber, A., Zimmermann, J., & Knaevelsrud, C. (2021). Screening accuracy of a 14-day smartphone ambulatory assessment of depression symptoms and mood dynamics in a general population sample: Comparison with the PHQ-9 depression screening. PLOS ONE, 16(1), e0244955. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0244955

Kerber, A., Beintner, I., Burchert, S., & Knaevelsrud, C. (2021). Does app-based unguided self-management improve mental health literacy, patient empowerment and access to care for people with mental health impairments? Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. BMJ open, 11(7), e049688. http://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-049688

Kerber, A., Roth, M., & Herzberg, P. Y. (2021). Personality types revisited – a literature-informed and data-driven approach to an integration of prototypical and dimensional constructs of personality description. PLOS ONE, 16(1), e0244849. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0244849

Kerber, A., Schäuffele, C., Krieger, T., Urech, A., Riper, H., Berger, T., Boettcher, J., Knaevelsrud, C. (2021). Differential Effects of Psychological Interventions in Online and Face-to-Face Settings on DSM-5 and ICD-11 Maladaptive Trait Domains: An Exploratory Pilot Study. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.648367

Spitzer, C., Müller, S., Kerber, A., Hutsebaut, J., Brähler, E., Zimmermann, J. (in press). The German Version of the Level of Personality Functioning Scale-Brief Form 2.0 (LPFS-BF): Latent Structure, Convergent Validity and Norm
Values in the General Population. Psychother Psych Med. https://doi.org/10.1055/a-1343-2396

2020

Bach, B., Kerber, A., Aluja, A., Bastiaens, T., Keeley, J. W., Claes, L., Fossati, A., Gutierrez, F., Oliveira, S. E. S., Pires, R., Riegel, K. D., Rolland, J., Roskam, I., Sellbom, M., Somma, A., Spanenberg, L., Włodzimierz, S., Thimm, J., Wright, A. G. C., & Zimmermann, J. (2020). International Assessment of DSM-5 and ICD-11 Personality Disorder Traits: Toward a Common Nosology in DSM-5.1. Psychopathology, 53, 179-188. https://doi.org/10.1159/000507589

Kerber, A., Schultze, M., Müller, S., Rühling, R. M., Wright, A. G. C., Spitzer, C., Krueger, R. F., Knaevelsrud, C., & Zimmermann, J. (2020). Development of a Short and ICD-11 Compatible Measure for DSM-5 Maladaptive Personality Traits Using Ant Colony Optimization Algorithms. Assessment. https://doi.org/10.1177/1073191120971848

2019

Zimmermann, J., Kerber, A., Rek, K., Hopwood C.J., & Krueger, R.F. (2019). A Brief but Comprehensive Review of Research on the Alternative DSM-5 Model for Personality Disorders. Current Psychiatry Reports, 21, 92. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11920-019-1079-z

Sonstige Veröffentlichungen

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Entwicklung einer verbundübergreifenden Website für das BMBF Fördermaßnahme “Forschungsverbünde zur psychischen Gesundheit geflüchteter Menschen”. https://www.mentalhealth4refugees.de/

Kongressbeiträge

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2023

Kerber, A., Ehrenthal, J., Heim, P., Nolte, T., Remmers, C., Beintner, I., Zimmermann, J., & Knaevelsrud, C., (2023). Personality functioning as a transdiagnostic construct in HiTOP - A Bass-Ackwards analysis based on ambulatory assessed data. Presentation at  Presentation at the 53th annual international meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR) in Dublin, Ireland.

Kerber, A., Michel, C., Beintner, I., Burchert, S., Knaevelsrud, C., (2023) Direct and indirect effects of MindDoc on mental health: Improvement of patient empowerment and self-management skills may substantially mediate effects of unguided mental health apps. Presentation at the 7th conference of the European society for research on internet interventions (ESRII).

2022

Kerber, A., Heinzmann, S., Ehrenthal, J., Burchert, S., Zimmermann, J., & Knaevelsrud, C., (2022). Die Vorhersage von Depression in einem dynamischen Multilevelmodell durch die Persönlichkeitsfunktion und dynamische Stimmungs- und Situationsparameter. Presentation at "1. Deutscher Psychotherapiekongress" in Berlin, Germany

Kerber., A., (2022). Dimensionale Diagnostik psychischer Störungen im Rahmen der Hierarchischen Taxonomie (HiTOP). Presentation at Gemeinsamer Kongress der Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Neuropsychopharmakologie und Pharmakopsychiatrie und der deutschen Gesellschaft für biologische Psychiatrie in Berlin, Germany.

Kerber, A., Heinzmann, S., Ehrenthal, J., Burchert, S., Zimmermann, J., & Knaevelsrud, C., (2022). Linking Personality Functioning, Daily Situations and General Psychopathology in a Large Sample of Users of a Mental Health App. Presentation at  Presentation at the 53th annual international meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR) in Denver, USA

Kerber, A., Goth, K., Moehler, E., Sevecke, K., Sarrar, L., Cropp, C., Birkhoelzer, M., (2022) Self and informant assessments of maladaptive traits with the age-specific PID5BF+ M CA in adolescent school and clinic samples. Presentation at the European Society for the Study of Personality Disorders (ESSPD) congress in Brüssels, Belgium.

Kerber, A., Heim, P., Beintner, I., Ehrenthal, J., Zimmermann, J., & Knaevelsrud, C., (2022). Persönlichkeitsfunktion als transdiagnostisches Konstrukt in HiTOP – Eine Bass-Ackwards-Analyse auf Basis ambulatorisch erfasster Daten. Presentation at Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Psychosomatik und Nervenheilkunde (DGPPN) congress in Berlin, Germany.

Kerber, A., Beintner, I., Burchert, S., Knaevelsrud, C., (2022)., Hilft die MindDoc-App Menschen mit psychischen Beschwerden? Ergebnisse einer randomisierten kontrollierten Studie. Presentation at the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Psychosomatik und Nervenheilkunde (DGPPN) congress in Berlin, Germany.

Kerber, A., Heinzmann, S., Ehrenthal, J., Burchert, S., Zimmermann, J., & Knaevelsrud, C., (2022). Linking Personality Functioning, Daily Situations and General Psychopathology in a Large Sample of Users of a Mental Health App. Presentation at  Presentation at the 53th annual international meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR) in Denver, USA.

2021

Kerber, A. (2021). Veränderbarkeit von maladaptiven Traits nach DSM-5 und ICD-11 durch psychologische Interventionen in Online- und Face-to-Face-Settings. Presentation at the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Psychosomatik und Nervenheilkunde (DGPPN) congress.

Kerber, A., Gewehr, E., Fegert, J., Zimmermann, J., Spitzer, C. (2021). Das Funktionsniveau der Persönlichkeit als Moderator zwischen ungünstigen Kindheitserfahrungen und aktueller psychopathologischer Belastung. Talk at Deutscher Kongress für psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie (DKPM). 

Kerber, A., Schäuffele, C., Krieger, T., Urech, A., Riper, H., Berger, T., Boettcher, J., Knaevelsrud, C. (2021). Differential Effects of Psychological Interventions in Online and Face-to-Face Settings on DSM-5 and ICD-11 Maladaptive Trait Domains: An Exploratory Pilot Study. Presentation at the 52th annual international meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR) in Heidelberg, Germany.

Kerber, A., Schäuffele, C., Krieger, T., Urech, A., Riper, H., Berger, T., Boettcher, J., Knaevelsrud, C. (2021). Differential Effects of Psychological Interventions in Online and Face-to-Face Settings on DSM-5 and ICD-11 Maladaptive Trait Domains: An Exploratory Pilot Study. Presentation at the International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders (ISSPD) congress.

Kerber, A., Volkert, J. (2021). Paradigmenwechsel im ICD-11: Praktische und theoretische Implikationen der dimensionalen Erfassung von Persönlichkeitspathologie. Symposium at the 38th Conference of the Division of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy of the German Psychological Society (DGPs).

2019

Kerber, A., Knaevelsrud, C., Zimmermann, J., Krieger, T. (2019). New developments in ICD-11 and DSM-5: Personality Functioning and Maladaptive Traits as Transdiagnostic Moderators of Psychopathology and Targets for Clinical Intervention. Presentation at the 9th World Congress of Behavioural & Cognitive Therapies in Berlin, Germany

Kerber, A., Zimmermann, J., Knaevelsrud, C. (2019). Neue dimensionale Modelle der Psychopathologie: Erfassung maladaptiver Persönlichkeitseigenschaften nach ICD-11 und DSM-5 mit ersten Befunden zur Veränderbarkeit.  Presentation at the annual meeting of the German Association of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics (DGPPN) in Berlin, Germany.

2018

Kerber, A. (2018). Proposal of a Treatment-Rationale-Independent Framework for Quality Assessment and Research Data Generation in Psychotherapy. Presentation at the 49th Annual International Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR) in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Kerber, A., Zimmermann, J., Knaevelsrud, C. (2018). Sind maladaptive Persönlichkeitseigenschaften zentral in Genese und Remission depressiver Erkrankungen? Eine Untersuchung der prädiktiven Validität der dimensionalen Erfassung von Persönlichkeitspathologie nach DSM-5. Presentation at the annual meeting of the German Association of Psychiatry Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics (DGPPN) in Berlin, Germany.