Publikationen

Dr. Verena Ertl

Publikationen die vor der Anstellung an der Katholischen Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt entstanden sind.

Publications

Mehus, C.J., Wieling, E., Oloya, O.T., Achan, L., & Ertl, V. (2020). The impact of alcohol misuse on fathering in northern Uganda: An ethnographic study of fathers. Transcultural Psychiatry.

Ertl, V., Preuße, M., & Neuner, F. (2018). Are Drinking Motives Universal? Characteristics of Motive Types in Alcohol-Dependent Men from Two Diverse Populations. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 9(February), 1–16.

Ibrahim, H., Ertl, V., Catani, C., Ismail, A. A., & Neuner, F. (2018). Trauma and perceived social rejection among Yazidi women and girls who survived enslavement and genocide. BMC Medicine, 16(1), 154.

Ibrahim, H., Ertl, V., Catani, C., Ismail, A. A., & Neuner, F. (2018). The validity of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5) as screening instrument with Kurdish and Arab displaced populations living in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. BMC Psychiatry, 18(1), 259.

Ertl, V. (2016). Excessive Alcohol Use In Crisis-affected Societies: A Weak Spot of Global Mental Health Research and Practice. International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies - StressPoints, (October).

Ertl, V. (2016). “Flucht-Trauma-Sucht” Ein internationaler Blick auf die Situation - Erfahrungen und Good Practices. In Flucht – Trauma – Sucht. Was erwartet die Suchthilfe? (Forum Sucht Band 48, pp. 23–32). Münster: LWL.

Ertl, V., Saile, R., Neuner, F., & Catani, C. (2016). Drinking to ease the burden: a cross-sectional study on trauma, alcohol abuse and psychopathology in a post-conflict context. BMC Psychiatry, 16(1), 202.

Steuwe, C., Rullkötter, N., Ertl, V., Berg, M., Neuner, F., Beblo, T., & Driessen, M. (2016). Effectiveness and feasibility of Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET) in patients with borderline personality disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder – a pilot study. BMC Psychiatry, 16(1), 1–11.

Neuner, F., Catani, C., & Ertl, V. (2015). Mass Trauma: Psychopathological Effects across the Life Span. In J. Wright (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (2nd ed., pp. 747–751). Elsevier.

Saile, R., Ertl, V., Neuner, F., & Catani, C. (2015). Children of the postwar years: A two-generational multilevel risk assessment of child psychopathology in northern Uganda. Development and Psychopathology, 1–14.

Wieling, E., Mehus, C., Yumbul, C., Möllerherm, J., Ertl, V., Achan, L., Forgatch, M., Neuner, F. & Catani, C. (2015). Preparing the Field for Feasibility Testing of a Parenting Intervention for War-Affected Mothers in Northern Uganda. Family Process.

Winkler, N., Ruf-Leuschner, M., Ertl, V., Pfeiffer, A., Schalinski, I., Ovuga, E., Neuner, F. & Elbert, T. (2015). From war to classroom: PTSD and depression in formerly abducted youth in Uganda. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 6(March), 1–10.

Ertl, V., & Neuner, F. (2014). Are school-based mental health interventions for war-affected children effective and harmless ? BMC Medicine, 12(84), 1–4.

Ertl, V., Pfeiffer, A., Schauer-Kaiser, E., Elbert, T., & Neuner, F. (2014). The challenge of living on: psychopathology and its mediating influence on the readjustment of former child soldiers. PloS One, 9(7), e102786.

Olema, D. K., Catani, C., Ertl, V., Saile, R., & Neuner, F. (2014). The Hidden Effects of Child Maltreatment in a War Region: Correlates of Psychopathology in two Generations living in Northern Uganda. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 27(1), 35-41.

Saile, R., Ertl, V., Neuner, F., & Catani, C. (2014). Does war contribute to family violence against chidren? Findings from a two-generational multi-informant study in Northern Uganda. Child Abuse and Neglect, 38(1), 135-146.

Papassotiropoulos, A., Gerhards, C., Heck, A., Ackermann, S., Aerni, A., Schicktanz, N., Auschra, B., Demougin, P., Mumme, E., Elbert, T., Ertl, V., Gschwind, L., Hanser, E., Huynh, K.D., Jessen, F., Kolassa, I.T., Milnik, A., Paganetti, P., Spalek, K., Vogler, C., Muhs, A., Pfeifer, A., & de Quervain, D. J. (2013). Human genome-guided identification of memory-modulating drugs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 110(46), E4369-4374.

Saile, R., Neuner, F., Ertl, V., & Catani, C. (2013). Prevalence and predictors of partner violence against women in the aftermath of war: A survey among couples in Northern Uganda. Social Science and Medicine, 86, 17-25.

de Quervain, D. J., Kolassa, I. T., Ackermann, S., Aerni, A., Boesiger, P., Demougin, P., Elbert, T., Ertl, V., Gschwind, L., Hadziselimovic, N., Hanser, E., Heck, A., Hieber, P., Huynh, K. D., Klarhöfer, M., Luechinger, R., Rasch, B., Scheffler, K., Spalek, K., Stippich, C., Vogler, C., Vukojevic, V., Stetak, A., Papassotiropoulos, A. (2012). PKCα is genetically linked to memory capacity in healthy subjects and to risk for posttraumatic stress disorder in genocide survivors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 109(22), 8746-8751.

Neuner, F., Pfeiffer, A., Schauer-Kaiser, E., Odenwald, M., Elbert, T., & Ertl, V. (2012). Haunted by ghosts: prevalence, predictors and outcomes of spirit possession experiences among former child soldiers and war-affected civilians in Northern Uganda. Social Science & Medicine, 75(3), 548-554.

Zwissler, B., Hauswald, A., Koessler, S., Ertl, V., Pfeiffer, A., Wöhrmann, C., Winkler, N., & Kissler, J. (2012). Memory control in post-traumatic stress disorder: evidence from item method directed forgetting in civil war victims in Northern Uganda. Psychological Medicine, 42(6), 1283-1291.

Ertl, V., Pfeiffer, A., Schauer, E., Elbert, T., & Neuner, F. (2011). Community-Implemented Trauma Therapy for Former Child Soldiers in Northern Uganda: A Randomized Controlled Trial. JAMA, 206(5), 503-512.

Haer, R., Banholzer, L., & Ertl, V. (2011). Create Compliance and Cohesion - How Rebel Organizations Manage to Survive. Small Wars & Insurgencies, 22(3), 415-434.

Ertl, V., Pfeiffer, A., Saile, R., Schauer, E., Elbert, T., & Neuner, F. (2010). Validation of a Mental Health Assessment in an African Conflict Population. Psychological Assessment, 22(2), 318-324.

Koessler, S., Wohrmann, C., Zwissler, B., Pfeiffer, A., Ertl, V., & Kissler, J. (2010). Does remembering cause forgetting in chronically stressed people? A study of Ugandan civil war refugees with and without PTSD. Zeitschrift für Psychologie/Journal of Psychology, 218(2), 71-79.

Kolassa, I. T., Ertl, V., Eckart, C., Gloeckner, F., Kolassa, S., Papassotiropoulos, A., et al. (2010). Association study of trauma load and SLC6A4 promoter polymorphism in posttraumatic stress disorder: evidence from survivors of the Rwandan genocide. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 71(5), 543-547.

Kolassa, I.-T., Ertl, V., Eckart, C., Kolassa, S., Onyut, L. P., & Elbert, T. (2010). Spontaneous remission from PTSD depends on the number of traumatic event types experienced. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 2(3), 169-174.

Kolassa, I.-T., Kolassa, S., Ertl, V., Papassotiropoulos, A., & De Quervain, D. J. F. (2010). The Risk of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder After Trauma Depends on Traumatic Load and the Catechol-O-Methyltransferase Val(158)Met Polymorphism. Biological Psychiatry, 67(4), 304-308.

Onyut, L. P., Neuner, F., Ertl, V., Schauer, E., Odenwald, M., & Elbert, T. (2009). Trauma, poverty and mental health among Somali and Rwandese refugees living in an African refugee settlement - an epidemiological study. Conflict and Health, 3, 6.

Winkler, N., Ruf, M., Schauer, E., Lingenfelder, B., Pfeiffer, A., Ertl, V., Glöckner, F., Banholzer, L. & Elbert, T. (2009). A YEP-centre based survey to develop an integrated psychosocial support structure for formerly abducted and war-affected youths in vocational training centres.

Ertl, V. (2008). Validierung Westlicher Konzepte zur Erfassung Psychischen Leids in Afrika Reliabilität und Validität der Erfassung Posttraumatischer Belastungsstörung in einer Ostafrikanischen Flüchtlingssiedlung. Saarbrücken: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller.

Neuner, F., Onyut, P. L., Ertl, V., Odenwald, M., Schauer, E., & Elbert, T. (2008). Treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder by trained lay counselors in an African refugee settlement: a randomized controlled trial. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 76(4), 686-694.

de Quervain, D. J., Kolassa, I. T., Ertl, V., Onyut, P. L., Neuner, F., Elbert, T., et al. (2007). A deletion variant of the alpha2b-adrenoceptor is related to emotional memory in Europeans and Africans. Nature Neuroscience, 10(9), 1137-1139.

Onyut, L. P., Neuner, F., Schauer, E., Ertl, V., Odenwald, M., Schauer, M., et al. (2005). Narrative Exposure Therapy as a treatment for child war survivors with posttraumatic stress disorder: two case reports and a pilot study in an African refugee settlement. BMC Psychiatry, 5, 7.

Onyut, L. P., Neuner, F., Schauer, E., Ertl, V., Odenwald, M., Schauer, M., et al. (2004). The Nakivale Camp Mental Health Project: Building local competency for psychological assistance to traumatised refugees. Intervention: International Journal of Mental Health, Psychosocial Work & Counselling in Areas of Armed Conflict, 2(2), 90.

Schauer, E., Neuner, F., Elbert, T., Ertl, V., Onyut, L. P., Odenwald, M., et al. (2004). Narrative Exposure Therapy in Children: A Case Study. Intervention: International Journal of Mental Health, Psychosocial Work & Counselling in Areas of Armed Conflict, 2(1), 18-32.