Anke Ehlers
Anke Ehlers | |
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| Born | 11 January 1957 |
| Spouse | David M. Clark |
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| Discipline | Psychologist |
| Sub-discipline | Post-traumatic stress disorder |
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Anke Ehlers FBA FMedSci (born 11 January 1957) is a German psychologist and expert in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).[1] She is a Fellow of the major science academies of the UK and Germany.
She currently works at the University of Oxford as Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow and Professor of Experimental Psychopathology.[2]
With husband David M. Clark, she developed a cognitive model for PTSD. Therapy she and others based on that model is strongly recommended for treating PTSD by the American Psychological Association.[3] Anke's research has shown that it is a common problem among emergency medical workers,[4] and that a commonly used therapy for PTSD, psychological debriefing, has little provable therapeutic value.[5]
Professional career
[edit]Ehlers studied psychology at the University of Kiel and the University of Tübingen, earning a diploma from Tübingen in 1983. She finished her Ph.D. from the same institution in 1985, and earned a habilitation from the University of Marburg in 1990.[6]
While finishing her Ph.D., Ehlers worked at Stanford University from 1984 to 1985 as assistant director of the Laboratory for Clinical Psychopharmacology and Psychophysiology.[citation needed]
After an assistant professorship at the University of Marburg, she became a full professor at the University of Göttingen in 1991.[citation needed]
She moved to Oxford as Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow in 1993. While there, she lead authored the paper A cognitive model of posttraumatic stress disorder in 1999.[7]
She moved to King's College London in 2000. While there she led a group of people that developed a therapy based on her and Clark's model.[8] She returned to Oxford as Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow and Professor of Experimental Psychopathology in 2012; she retains a visiting position at King's College London.[6]
Awards and honours
[edit]In 2004 she was elected a Fellow of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.[9] She was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2010[10] and is also a member of the Academia Europaea.[6] In 2018 she was appointed Senior Investigator at the UK's National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR).[11]
Personal life
[edit]She was born in Kiel, West Germany. She is married to her colleague David M. Clark.[12]
References
[edit]- ^ "Humans 'have six-hour window' to erase memories of fear". BBC News. 10 December 2009.
- ^ Faculty listing Archived 20 December 2012 at the Wayback Machine, Oxford Neuroscience, retrieved 2013-01-22.
- ^ "Cognitive Therapy (CT)". American Psychological Association. Retrieved 24 February 2023.
- ^ "Health Ambulance workers 'traumatised by job'", BBC News, 10 September 1999.
- ^ "Report Finds 'No Convincing Evidence' That Psychological Debriefing Reduces Incidence Of PTSD", ScienceDaily, 19 September 2003.
- ^ a b c Academia Europaea member profile, retrieved 2013-01-23.
- ^ Ehlers, Anke; Clark, David M. (1 April 2000). "A cognitive model of posttraumatic stress disorder". Behaviour Research and Therapy. 38 (4): 319–345. doi:10.1016/S0005-7967(99)00123-0. ISSN 0005-7967. PMID 10761279.
- ^ Ehlers, Anke; Clark, David M.; Hackmann, Ann; McManus, Freda; Fennell, Melanie (1 April 2005). "Cognitive therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder: development and evaluation". Behaviour Research and Therapy. 43 (4): 413–431. doi:10.1016/j.brat.2004.03.006. ISSN 0005-7967. PMID 15701354.
- ^ Leopoldina member profile, retrieved 2013-01-22.
- ^ British Academy member profile Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 2013-01-22.
- ^ "Professor Anke Ehlers receives NIHR Senior Investigator Award — Department of Experimental Psychology". www.psy.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
- ^ Freeman, Daniel; Freeman, Jason (2012), Anxiety: A Very Short Introduction, Very Short Introductions, vol. 318, Oxford University Press, p. 80, ISBN 9780199567157.
- 1957 births
- German psychologists
- English psychologists
- German women psychologists
- British women psychologists
- University of Tübingen alumni
- Academic staff of the University of Marburg
- Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellows
- Academic staff of the University of Göttingen
- Academics of King's College London
- Fellows of Wolfson College, Oxford
- Fellows of the British Academy
- Members of Academia Europaea
- NIHR Senior Investigators
- Living people
- Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences (United Kingdom)