Research interests

• Psychopathology in early childhood
• Child and adolescent trauma
• Parent stress and child psychosocial outcomes
• Trauma-focused therapy and support for trauma exposed families

Education

11/2014 – 02/2018  PhD in Psychology (Dr.rer.nat), Center for Clinical Psychology and Rehabilitation, University of Bremen, Germany

10/2012 – 09/2014  Master of Science in Clinical Psychology, University of Bremen, Germany

10/2009 – 09/2012  Bachelor of Science in Psychology, University of Bremen, Germany

Employment

Since 09/2024  Head of Clinical Research at the University Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg

12/2023-08/2024  Therapeutic Specialist for Mental Health of Children and Adolescents, Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Bremen Ost

07/2021 – 11/2023  Case-leading therapist at the child daycenter in Soltau of the Psychiatric Clinic Lüneburg 

09/2019-09/2022  Honorary Research Fellow at the Child and Community Wellbeing Unit, Center for Child Equity, MSPGH, University of Melbourne, Australia

01/2019-12/2021  Freelancer lecturer in Statistics at the Hamburger Fernhochschule (HFH) and the International University (IU)

11/2015 – 08/2019  Research fellow at the Department of Clinical Child Psychology, University of Bremen, Germany

04/2015 – 07/2015  Associate lecturer in Quantitative Methods, Bachelor Psychology, 
                                      Institute for Psychology and Transfer, University of Bremen

Postgraduate trainings

Since 2018  Post-graduate training as a child and adolescent psychotherapist, behavioural therapy at the DGVT Hamburg and NOKI Bremen (since January 2025)

Grants and awards

03/2023  Research award of the Falk-von-Reichenbach Foundation and the German Society for Psychotraumatology (DeGPT)

09/2019-07/2021  Research fellowship of the German Research Foundation (DFG) for the Project “Posttraumatic Cognitions” at the University of Melbourne, Australia

09/2018  Central research funding of the University of Bremen
                 Research grant for the project “Reactive and Proactive Aggression following Maltreatment”

08/2018  Conference travel grant, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Bonn, Germany

03/2017  Conference travel grant, German Society of Psychotraumatology (DeGPT), Hamburg, Germany

11/2016  Conference travel grant, University of Bremen, Germany

5 representative publications

Vasileva, M., Marsac, M., Alisic, E., Cobham, V. E., Davis, S. H., Donovan, C., Hildebrand, A. K., Hoehn, E., March, S., Miller, A. B., Smith-Thomas, T., Wamser-Nanney, R. & De Young, A. (2022). Preschooler Stressor-related Thoughts and Worries during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Development and Validation of a Caregiver-report Instrument. Traumatology. https://doi.org/10.1037/trm0000429

Vasileva, M., Alisic, E., & De Young, A. (2021). COVID-19 unmasked: Preschool children’s negative thoughts and worries during the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 12. doi.org/10.1080/20008198.2021.1924442

Vasileva, M., Graf, R. K., Reinelt, T., Petermann, U., & Petermann, F. (2021). Research review: A meta‐analysis of the international prevalence and comorbidity of mental disorders in children between 1 and 7 years. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 62, 372-381.doi:10.1111/jcpp.13261

Vasileva, M., Haag, A. C., Landolt, M. A., & Petermann, F. (2018). Posttraumatic stress disorder in very young children: Diagnostic agreement between ICD‐11 and DSM‐5. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 31, 529-539.

Vasileva, M., & Petermann, F. (2017). Posttraumatic stress symptoms in preschool children in foster care: The influence of placement and foster family environment. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 30, 472-481.

ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-6575-0860

Contacts: mira.vasileva@uol.de