apl. Prof. Dr. Pia von Blanckenburg

Pia von Blanckenburg

Außerplanmäßige Professorin

Contact information

+49 6421 28-24051 pia.vonblanckenburg@ 1 Gutenbergstraße 18
35032 Marburg
G|01 Institutsgebäude (Room: 03036 resp. +3036)

Deputy Professor of Innovative Psychotherapy, Head of the Psychooncology and Palliative Care Research Unit, Liaison Lecturer in the Department of Psychology

Research Interests

  • Psycho-oncology (utilization of psychosocial help, disadvantaged groups, cancer and poverty, dealing with side effects and coping)
  • Palliative care (communication barriers, dignity at the end of life, advance care planning)
  • Nocebo effects and treatment expectations
  • Psychotherapy research

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Curriculum Vitae

  • Education

    Since 2016 Further training in trauma therapy, psycho-oncology, schema therapy, advance care planning
    09/2016 Licensed as a psychological psychotherapist (VT)
    04/2015 PhD in psychology (Dr.rer.nat.), Philipps University Marburg
    10/2010 Diploma in psychology, Philipps University Marburg

  • Professional Experience

    Since 04/2024 Substitute Professor for Innovative Psychotherapy, Philipps University Marburg
    Since 10/2023 Supervisor in Psychotherapy Training, IPAM Marburg
    Since 05/2023 Psychotherapeutic Substitute in Multimodal Pain Therapy, Diakonie Hospital Marburg-Wehrda
    Since 10/2019 Academic Counselor/ Senior Counselor, Head of the Research Unit Psychooncology and Palliative Care, Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, PU Marburg
    10/2017-09/2019 Research assistant, study leader of the BMBF-funded project Interdisciplinary, anticipatory care planning: Improving palliative care through structured communication about values, living and dying, Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Philipps University Marburg
    2015 - 2017 Psychotherapist, Acute Psychosomatic Clinic, Mediclin, Bad Wildungen

  • Stays abroad

    2009 Master semester Health Psychology, University of Oslo, Norway
    2004

    Year abroad Valparaiso/ Santiago de Chile, Chile

Teaching

  •  Applied Psychotherapy/ Psychosomatics and Behavioral Medicine (Lecture, Master Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy)
  • Self-reflection (Seminar, Master Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy)
  • Procedure-specific case conception (BQT-II, Master Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy)
  • Competence-oriented psychotherapy (BQT-II, Master Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy)
  • Clinical case seminar (BQT-II, Master Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy)
  • Psychotherapeutic basic skills 1 (Intervention internship 1, exercise, B. Sc. Sc.)
  • Psychotherapeutic basic skills 2 (Intervention internship 2, exercise, B.Sc.)
  • Psychooncology (Seminar, Master Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy.)
  • Third wave procedures (Seminar, B.Sc.)
  • Personalized and manual-guided psychotherapy (Seminar, B.Sc.)
  • Nocebo effects and dealing with side effects (Invited lectures)
  • Specific phobias (Workshop, psychotherapy training)
  • Psychooncology (Workshop, psychotherapy training)
  • Self-awareness in the context of psychotherapy training

Awards

07/2024 Teaching Award of the Psychology Student Council at the Philipps University of Marburg for the seminar “Self-Reflection”

07/2023 Teaching Award of the Psychology Student Council at the Philipps University of Marburg for the seminar “Intervention Internship”

05/2023 3rd place in the Germany-wide Young Supervisor Award 2023 of the Clinical Psychology Section of the DGPs

03/2022 Nomination for the Award for Excellent Doctoral Supervision 2022, Philipps University of Marburg

05/2019 Best Abstract at the 16. World Congress of the European Association for Palliative Care

11/2018 DAAD travel scholarship for the 16th Congress of the International Society of
Behavioral Medicine (ISBM), Santiago, Chile

5/2018 Top poster at the specialist group conference for clinical psychology and psychotherapy, Landau

12/2015 Gender equality scholarship from the Marburg Research Academy (MARA)

Selected Publications

Senßfelder, A., Havemann, M., Pedrosa Carrasco, A. J., von Blanckenburg, P., & Seifart, C. (2024). Preserving the integrity of personhood in people with advanced cancer: An in-depth qualitative study among patients, relatives, and care professionals. Palliative Medicine, 38(9), 1054-1064.

von Blanckenburg, P., Leppin, N., Nagelschmidt, K., Seifart, C., & Rief, W. (2021). Matters of life and death: an experimental study investigating psychological interventions to encourage the readiness for end-of-life conversations. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 90(4), 243-254.

von Blanckenburg, P., Hofmann, M., Rief, W., Seifart, U., & Seifart, C. (2020). Assessing patients preferences for breaking Bad News according to the SPIKES-Protocol: the MABBAN scale. Patient education and counseling, 103(8), 1623-1629.

von Blanckenburg, P., & Leppin, N. (2018). Psychological interventions in palliative care. Current opinion in psychiatry, 31(5), 389-395.

Cooperations and Memberships

German Society for Psychology (DGPs), Division of Clinical Psychology
Division of Health Psychology
German Society for Palliative Medicine (DGP)
German Cancer Society, Division of Psychooncology (PSO)
Hesse Chamber of Psychotherapists

Acquired research funds

 

2021 DFG funded project Research Training Group 2271 Breaking Expecations Subproject 10 as PI: Expectations and expectation violation in the communication about death and dying, Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Sarah Teige-Mozigemba, Duration: 2023-2026
2021 German Cancer Aid funded project as Co-PI: “ASTENZ - Assisting tools to strengthen patient competence for therapy goal-setting discussions and preventive health planning in advanced cancer”, PI: Prof. Dr. Carola Seifart, Duration: 2022-2026
2020 DFG funded project as part of the Research Training Group 2271 Breaking Expectations, Subproject 10 as PI: Expectations and expectation violation in the communication about death and dying, Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Erik Müller-Reh, Duration: 2020-2023
2019 German Cancer Aid funded project 70113232 as PI: “Improving psycho-oncological care and preventive health planning by incorporating expectations”, Duration: 2020-2023
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