Dipl. Psych. André Kerber

Clinical Psychological Intervention
Research Associate (Externally Funded Project)
Room 002
14195 Berlin
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2018 – License to practice Psychotherapy by the State Office for Health Berlin - Specialization CBT
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2013 – Diplom Psychologie, Universität Potsdam
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Topic of diploma thesis: „Predictive Validity of Dimensional versus Prototypical Approaches to Personality Description - Application of Nonlinear and Probabilistic Clustering Algorithms in the German SOEP Sample“
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2009 – Bachelor of Science Cognitive Science, Universität Osnabrück
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Topic of bachelor thesis: „Neural Correlates of Introjection - A fMRI Study on Self-Chosen vs Imposed Goals“
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Academic Career
since January 2017: Research assistant, Division of Clinical Psychological Intervention, Freie Universität Berlin
Clinical Experience and Career
since 2019: Psychotherapy Training at the Berlin Institute for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy - Specialization: Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Therapy
since 2018: Psychotherapeutic Practice in 10115 Berlin, Linienstr. 130
2015 - 2018 Practice of long- and short-term Psychotherapy under Supervision
2015 - 2016 Clinical practice (trainee) in the psychiatric inpatient clinic Parkklinik Sophie Charlotte in Berlin
2013 - 2014 Clinical practice (trainee) in the psychotherapeutic outpatient clinic of the DGVT (German Association for Behavioral Therapy) in Berlin
2013 - 2018 Psychotherapy training at the German Association for Behavioral Therapy (DGVT) in Berlin - Specialization Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Peer-reviewed articles
2021
Burchert, S., Kerber, A., Zimmermann, J., & Knaevelsrud, C. (2021). Screening accuracy of a 14-day smartphone ambulatory assessment of depression symptoms and mood dynamics in a general population sample: Comparison with the PHQ-9 depression screening. PLOS ONE, 16(1), e0244955. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0244955
Kerber, A., Roth, M., & Herzberg, P. Y. (2021). Personality types revisited – a literature-informed and data-driven approach to an integration of prototypical and dimensional constructs of personality description. PLOS ONE, 16(1), e0244849. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0244849
Spitzer, C., Müller, S., Kerber, A., Hutsebaut, J., Brähler, E., Zimmermann, J. (in press). The German Version of the Level of Personality Functioning Scale-Brief Form 2.0 (LPFS-BF): Latent Structure, Convergent Validity and Norm
Values in the General Population. Psychother Psych Med. https://doi.org/10.1055/a-1343-2396
2020
Bach, B., Kerber, A., Aluja, A., Bastiaens, T., Keeley, J. W., Claes, L., Fossati, A., Gutierrez, F., Oliveira, S. E. S., Pires, R., Riegel, K. D., Rolland, J., Roskam, I., Sellbom, M., Somma, A., Spanenberg, L., Włodzimierz, S., Thimm, J., Wright, A. G. C., & Zimmermann, J. (2020). International Assessment of DSM-5 and ICD-11 Personality Disorder Traits: Toward a Common Nosology in DSM-5.1. Psychopathology, 53, 179-188. https://doi.org/10.1159/000507589
Kerber, A., Schultze, M., Müller, S., Rühling, R. M., Wright, A. G. C., Spitzer, C., Krueger, R. F., Knaevelsrud, C., & Zimmermann, J. (2020). Development of a Short and ICD-11 Compatible Measure for DSM-5 Maladaptive Personality Traits Using Ant Colony Optimization Algorithms. Assessment. https://doi.org/10.1177/1073191120971848
2019
Zimmermann, J., Kerber, A., Rek, K., Hopwood C.J., & Krueger, R.F. (2019). A Brief but Comprehensive Review of Research on the Alternative DSM-5 Model for Personality Disorders. Current Psychiatry Reports, 21, 92. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11920-019-1079-z
Conference presentations
2019
Kerber, A., Knaevelsrud, C., Zimmermann, J., Krieger, T. (2019). New developments in ICD-11 and DSM-5: Personality Functioning and Maladaptive Traits as Transdiagnostic Moderators of Psychopathology and Targets for Clinical Intervention. Presentation at the 9th World Congress of Behavioural & Cognitive Therapies in Berlin, Germany
Kerber, A., Zimmermann, J., Knaevelsrud, C. (2019). Neue dimensionale Modelle der Psychopathologie: Erfassung maladaptiver Persönlichkeitseigenschaften nach ICD-11 und DSM-5 mit ersten Befunden zur Veränderbarkeit. Presentation at the annual meeting of the German Association of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics (DGPPN) in Berlin, Germany.
2018
Kerber, A. (2018). Proposal of a Treatment-Rationale-Independent Framework for Quality Assessment and Research Data Generation in Psychotherapy. Presentation at the 49th Annual International Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR) in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Kerber, A., Zimmermann, J., Knaevelsrud, C. (2018). Sind maladaptive Persönlichkeitseigenschaften zentral in Genese und Remission depressiver Erkrankungen? Eine Untersuchung der prädiktiven Validität der dimensionalen Erfassung von Persönlichkeitspathologie nach DSM-5. Presentation at the annual meeting of the German Association of Psychiatry Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics (DGPPN) in Berlin, Germany.