Emily Alexandra Gosslau

Prior my studies, I worked in an orphanage, providing care and support for traumatized children and young adults aged 4 to 21.

There, my responsibilities and tasks were:

• Establishing trust-based relationships with orphans, leading to improved mental health outcomes.
• Assisting in managing daily care needs of orphans, including meal preparation, hygiene, doing homework, tidying up, driving to appointments.
• Maintaining open communication channels between staff members, resulting in improved teamwork and operational efficiency.
• Enhance children's well-being by providing emotional support and guidance during difficult times.

For the professional qualification I: During my bachelors of psychology I worked in the forensic psychiatric facility for substance use disorders. These facilities in Germany („Maßregelvollzug“) typically treat individuals who have committed crimes and are suffering from mental health or substance use issues, providing both psychiatric care and rehabilitation programs.

During my internship, I had the following responsibilities and tasks:

- Organisational tasks like sorting case files and folders.

- Participation in relaxation conferences, treatment planning, admission interviews, and presentations of detained individuals in the closed section as well as initial interviews with therapists. - Attendance at individual therapy sessions with detainees.

- Participation as a co-therapist in relapse prevention training with R&R (Reasoning and Rehabilitation).

- Participation as a co-therapist in group therapy with the base group and the life skills group.

- Co-therapeutic activity involving exposure exercises (Meiningen City Park, Germany).

- Independent facilitation of two relapse prevention group sessions under supervision (e.g., genogram, five pillars of identity).

- Independent administration of diagnostics (CFT-20 R, LSI-R, VRAG-R, MSI), including subsequent analysis, reporting test results to detainees under therapist supervision.

- Independent facilitation of two individual interviews for exploration under supervision.

- Independent writing and documentation of individual and group sessions in the in-house clinical documentation program.

- Independent conceptual and structural preparation of group sessions.

- Accompanying a detainee to an aftercare facility in Altenburg (Germany).

- Participation in therapy team meetings, therapy conferences, team supervision, training, and continuing education (e.g., PCL-R); introduction to dealing with criminal offenses; managing personal emotions in a professional context, etc.

- Participation in hearings in Meiningen (Germany).

For my professional qualification III: During my masters of clinical psychology and psychotherapy I worked in the general psychiatric day clinic learning the treatment process for different disorders (e.g., depressive, bipolar, and schizophrenia spectrum disorders, anxiety disorders, obsessive compulsive disorders and personality disorders).

During my placement, I had the following responsibilities and tasks:

- Observational participation in group and individual sessions (problem-solving groups, psychotherapeutic groups, social interaction training).

- Independently conducting progressive muscle relaxation training according to Jacobson (PMR).

- Independent planning and facilitation of psychoeducational sleep groups.

- Co-therapeutic activities in individual sessions (e.g., support with activity plans, weekly schedules).

- Supporting the care team and patients in organizing therapy appointments.

- Independently maintaining progress documentation.

- Participation in visits, supervision, and team discussions.

- Participated in multidisciplinary team meetings, sharing insights and collaborating on comprehensive care plans for patients.

- Attendance at training and professional development events held by the clinic.

- Maintained thorough documentation of patient progress, facilitating seamless communication between healthcare professionals.

- File and literature review.

For my professional qualification III: During my masters, I worked at the University Outpatient Clinic of Humboldt University in Berlin. My placement was within the Special Outpatient Clinic for Social Interaction, which provides psychotherapeutic support for adults facing challenges in social interaction and communication. These difficulties are often observed in individuals on the autism spectrum but can also occur in conditions such as social anxiety disorder or chronic depression, where social interaction may be significantly impacted.

During my placement, I had the following responsibilities and tasks:

- Participated in the full diagnostic process for patient admission to the University Outpatient Clinic, including: Conducting intake interviews and initial diagnostic assessments (e.g., BSI, BDI). Administering and interpreting structured clinical interviews (e.g., SCID-5-CV, SCID-5-PD) and autism diagnostics (e.g., SRS, CAT-Q, FSK, AQ-K).

- Independently performing anamnesis interviews and attending feedback interviews to patients regarding diagnostic findings.

- Identified psychological, emotional or behavioral issues and diagnosed disorders using information obtained from evaluation techniques.

- Attendance in 12 consecutive individual psychotherapeutic treatment sessions for adult patients in an outpatient setting.

- Attendance in an additional 12 individual psychotherapeutic treatment sessions with patients across child, adolescent, and adult settings.

- Independently authored four comprehensive psychological and psychotherapeutic reports, produced for training purposes.