Department of Special Needs Education and Rehabilitation  (» Postal address)

Dr. Christina Vesterling

Graduate psychologist and child and adolescent psychotherapist

I am a graduate psychologist and child and adolescent psychotherapist. My research is embedded in the field of developmental psychology as well as psychology in special needs education and rehabilitation with a focus on somatoform symptoms in childhood and adolescence. 

Research Interests:

  • Somatoform symptoms in childhood and adolescence.
  • Attachment in childhood
  • Emotion regulation

Lectures

Winter term 2025 / 2026

Summer term 2025

Winter term 2024 / 2025

Winter term 2023 / 2024

Summer term 2023

Winter term 2022 / 2023

Summer term 2022

Winter term 2021 / 2022

Summer term 2021

Winter term 2020 / 2021

Summer term 2020

Winter term 2019 / 2020

Summer term 2019

Winter term 2018 / 2019

Summer term 2018

Winter term 2017 / 2018

Summer term 2017

Publications

ORCIDorcid.org/0000-0003-4465-800X

Journals

Vesterling, C., & von Düring, U. (2025). The Moderating Role of Parental Overprotection and Insecure Child–Caregiver Attachment on the Association Between Adaptive Emotion Regulation Strategies and Vegetative Somatoform Symptoms in Childhood. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2025(1), 7715429. doi.org/10.1155/cad/7715429

Eilts, J., Vesterling, C., & von Düring, U. (2025). Fachbeitrag: Der Zusammenhang zwischen Rollen in der Bullying-Dynamik und internalisierenden Problemen. Vierteljahresschrift für Heilpädagogik und ihre Nachbargebiete94(2), 82-100.

Vesterling, C., Goagoses, N., & von Düring, U. (2024). Somatoform symptoms and functional impairments during middle childhood: Associations with insecure attachment dimensions and emotion regulation strategies. Kindheit und Entwicklung: Zeitschrift für Klinische Kinderpsychologie, 33(3), 185–194. https://doi.org/10.1026/0942-5403/a000436

Bolz, T., Wilke, J., Vesterling, C., Rademacher, A., & Düring, U. V. (2023). Unsichere Bindung, Emotionsregulationsstrategien und internalisierende Verhaltensprobleme bei Schüler* innen im Förderschwerpunkt emotionale und soziale Entwicklung. Empirische Sonderpädagogik15(3), 234-251.

Vesterling, C., & Koglin, U. (2023). Somatoforme Symptome und Störungen im Kindesalter: Einblicke in Epidemiologie und Ätiologie. Springer.

Vesterling, C. (2023). Cross-lagged Relations of Children’s Somatoform Complaints: Embedment within Learning Theory and Secondary Gain Concept. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-023-02712-y

Vesterling, C., Schütz-Wilke, J., Goagoses, N., Eilts, J., Rademacher, A., Bolz, T., Schipper-Bäker, J., & Koglin, U. (2023). Epidemiology of Somatoform Symptoms and Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Health & Social Care in the Community. 6242678, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1155/2023/6242678

Goagoses, N., Bolz, T., Eilts, J., Schipper, N., Schütz, J., Rademacher, A., Vesterling, C., Koglin, U. (2022). Parenting dimensions/styles and emotion dysregulation in childhood and adolescence: a systematic review and Meta-analysis. Current Psychology, 1-25. doi.org/10.1007/s12144-022-03037-7

Vesterling, C., Koglin, U, (2021). Somatoform complaints in middle childhood A developmental path-analysis. Curr Psychol. doi.org/10.1007/s12144-021-01742-3

Goagoses, N., Bolz, T., Vesterling, C., & Koglin, U. (2021). Maternal attachment and behaviour problems: comparison between children in regular and special education schools. European Journal of Special Needs Education, 1-16. doi.org/10.1080/08856257.2021.2017145

Vesterling, C. & Koglin, U. (2020). The relationship between attachment and somatoform symptoms in children and adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 130doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychores.2020.109932

Conferences

Vesterling, C. (2023, November). Rehabilitationspädagogische Aspekte der Kommunikation und Beratung bei somatoformen Beschwerden im Kindesalter. [Rehabilitation pedagogical aspects of communication and counseling for somatoform complaints in childhood]. Presentation at the 15th Annual Conference of the Weser-Ems Working Group and the Lower Saxony State Office, Oldenburg.

Vesterling, C., Wilke, J., Rademacher, A., von Düring, U. & Bolz, T. (2023, November). Die mediierende Rolle der Schüler*innen-Lehrkraft-Beziehung beim Zusammenhang zwischen kindlicher Emotionsregulation und Verhaltensproblemen. [The mediating role of the student-teacher relationship in the association between children's emotion regulation and behavior problems] [presentation]. AESF Fall Conference 2023, Working Group on Empirical Research in Special Education. November 3-4, 2023, Münster, Germany.

Vesterling, C., Bolz, T., & Schütz, J. (2021, May). Factor Analysis and Construct Validation of the German Adaptation of the Experiences in Close Relationship Scale-Revised for use with children and adolescents (ECR-RC) [Poster]. Association for Psychological Science (APS) 2021 Virtual Convention, Online.

Vesterling, C. & Koglin, U. (2019, September). Zusammenhänge zwischen Emotionsregulationsstrategien und somatoformen Symptomen in der mittleren Kindheit. [Relationships between emotion regulation strategies and somatoform symptoms in middle childhood]. Poster presented at the PaEpsy Conference 2019, Leipzig.

Vesterling, C. (2018, November). Bindung & somatoforme Symptome im Kindesalter [Attachment & somatoform symptoms in childhood]. Presentation at the 11th Annual Conference of the Weser-Ems Working Group and the Lower Saxony State Office, Oldenburg.

Vesterling, C. & Koglin, U. (2018, September). Entstehungsfaktoren und aufrechterhaltende Bedingungen somatoformer Symptome im Kindesalter mit Fokus auf kindliche Bindungsmuster. [Developmental factors and maintaining conditions of somatoform symptoms in childhood with a focus on childhood attachment patterns]. Poster presented at the 51st Congress of the German Psychological Society, Frankfurt am Main.

Memberships

  • DGPs (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie) [German Society for Psychology]
  • PKN (Chamber of Psychotherapists of Lower Saxony)

 

Special qualifications

  • Quantitative research methods (SPSS Statistics, SPSS Process, SPSS AMOS)

Certificates

  • Systematic Reviews I
  • Meta-Analyses and Systematic Reviews
  • Structural Equation Modeling with AMOS
  • Basics of Interpretation of Regression Models
  • Introduction to Bayesian hypothesis testing 
  • Research ethics in (qualitative) social research
  • HeFDI – Data Week

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