About me

Armita Tschitsaz received her PhD in the field of psychotherapy process research from the University of Bern in 2008. From 2008-2018 she worked as a clinical psychologist at different psychiatric units in Switzerland and received several psychotherapy educations; since 2011 she worked as the head of psychotherapy in psychiatric units for depression, personality disorder, addiction and eating disorders. Since 2018, she is the deputy head of the therapy center of eating disorders of the child and adolescent psychiatry of university of Bern. Accompanying, she initiated research projects in the field of mental stress disorders and eating disorders. Currently, we run two research projects examining the development of and influences on eating disorders. We aim to examine the bio-physiological and psychological responses to weight anxiety in adolescents with anorexia nervosa. A further purpose is to characterize the trajectories of anorectic symptoms at baseline, during and after inpatient treatment and their impact on therapy effectiveness.

Publications

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Number of items: 6.

Journal Article

Orosz, Ariane; Federspiel, Andrea; Eckert, Anne; Seeher, Christian; Dierks, Thomas; Tschitsaz, Armita; Cattapan, Katja (2021). Exploring the effectiveness of a specialized therapy programme for burnout using subjective report and biomarkers of stress. Clinical psychology & psychotherapy, 28(4), pp. 852-861. Wiley-Blackwell 10.1002/cpp.2539

Tschitsaz, Armita; Stucki, Christoph (2013). Wirkfaktorengestützte Fallkonzeption und Therapieplanung in der praktischen Anwendung - Eine Kurzform. Verhaltenstherapie & psychosoziale Praxis (VPP), 45(2), pp. 399-417. DGVT-Verlag

Lutz, Wolfgang; Bachmann, Franziska; Tschitsaz, Armita; Smart, David; Lambert, Michael (2007). Zeitliche und sequentielle Muster von nonlinearen Veränderungen im Therapieverlauf - Das Phänomen von plötzlichen Gewinnen und Verlusten. Zeitschrift für klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie, 36(4), pp. 261-269. Göttingen: Hogrefe 10.1026/1616-3443.36.4.261

Lutz, Wolfgang; Tschitsaz, Armita (2007). Plötzliche Gewinne und Verluste im Behandlungsverlauf von Angststörungen, depressiven und komorbiden Störungen. Zeitschrift für klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie, 36(4), pp. 298-308. Göttingen: Hogrefe 10.1026/1616-3443.36.4.298

Lutz, Wolfgang; Lambert, Michael; Harmon, Cory; Tschitsaz, Armita; Schürch, Eva; Stulz, Niklaus (2006). The probability of treatment success, failure and duration - what can be learned from empirical data to support decision making in clinical practice? Clinical psychology & psychotherapy, 13(4), pp. 223-232. Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell 10.1002/cpp.496

Conference or Workshop Item

Orosz, Ariane; Federspiel, Andrea; Seeher, Christian; Dierks, Thomas; Tschitsaz, Armita; Cattapan-Ludewig, Katja (24 November 2016). Burnout - das Zusammenspiel von Stress-Symptomen und Stress-Biomarkern (Unpublished). In: DGPPN Kongress. Berlin. 23.-26.11.2016.

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