Dr Anja Blumenthal

Research interests

• Psychosocial development and the promotion of positive development across the lifespan, with a special focus on adolescence and early adulthood
  
  
• Review of school-based intervention programmes
  
  
• Conditions and indicators of successful implementation of evidence-based intervention programmes in the school context
  
  
• Longitudinal research and analysis methods

Professional qualifications

• 2013 Doctorate , Friedrich Schiller University Jena
• 2007 Diplom in Psychology, Free University of Berlin

Occupations

• since 2018
  Teaching associate|research associate|academic staff, Department of Youth Research, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena
  
  
• 2012 - 2020
  Teaching associate|research associate|academic staff at the Department of Developmental Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena
  
  
• 2007 - 2012
  Teaching associate|research associate|academic staff at the collaborative research centre 580: Social developments after systemic change. Discontinuity, tradition and structure formation (Project C6: Individual and social resources for dealing with social change) at Friedrich Schiller University, Jena
  
  
• 2003 - 2007
  Student assistant in the research area of developmental psychology at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin

Publications

• Weichold, K. & Blumenthal, A. (2018). Problem behaviour. In A. Lohaus. Developmental psychology of adolescence (pp. 169-196). Springer publishing house.
  
  
• Weichold, K. & Blumenthal, A. (2018). Prevention and developmental support in adolescence. In P. Titzmann & B. Gniewosz, (Eds.). Handbook of adolescence (pp. 526-543). Stuttgart: Kohlhammer.
  
  
• Weichold, K. & Blumenthal, A. (2016). Long-term effects of the Life Skills programme IPSY on substance use: Results of a 4.5yr. longitudinal study. Prevention Science, 17, 13-23.
  
  
• Blumenthal, A., Silbereisen, R. K., Pastorelli, C. & Castellani, V. (2015). Academic and social adjustment during adolescence as precursors of work-related uncertainties in early adulthood. Swiss Journal of Psychology, 74, 159-168.