Dr. Katrin Braune-Krickau

Work at ZHAW

Position

Co-lead Section of Clinical Psychology for Children and Adolescents

Focus

• Digital Media and Mental Health in Childhood and Adolescence
• Family Processes in Childhood and Adolescence
• Childhood and Youth Mental Health
• Developmental Psychopathology in Childhood and Adolescence
• Infant Mental Health
• Attachment research

Experience

• Researcher
  ZHAW, Center of Clinical Psychology
  01 / 2018 - 12 / 2024
• Head psychologist Under Fives Team
  Child and Adolescent Outpatient Services St. Gallen
  01 / 2020 - 12 / 2023
• Child psychotherapist, early childhood
  private practice
  05 / 2015 - 12 / 2021
• Child psychotherapist
  KJPD Schaffhausen
  01 / 2014 - 12 / 2016
• Postdoctoral Internship
  Ann Martin Center, Oakland, CA
  01 / 2012 - 12 / 2014
• Child psychotherapist
  Hogar Malambo, Panama
  01 / 2005 - 05 / 2006
• Child psychotherapist
  Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Services Luzern
  01 / 2002 - 12 / 2004

Education and Continuing education

Education

• Summerschool in Qualitative Interview Methods / Social Sciences
  University of Lugano
  09 / 2025 - 09 / 2025
• CAS Higher Professional Education / Didactical skills
  ZHAW School of Mangement and LAW
  09 / 2023 - 10 / 2024
• Care Index Trainer / Care Index Training, Adult Attachment Interview Training, Preschool Assessment of Attachment Training
  Family Relations Institute
  09 / 2018 - 02 / 2024
• Certificate / Parent-Infant-Psychotherapy
  International Psychoanaytic University Berlin (IPU)
  01 / 2016 - 01 / 2018
• Certificate / Child psychoanalytic psychotherapy
  San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis
  01 / 2010 - 01 / 2011
• Diploma in Psychoanaysis and the Arts / Psychoanalysis and the Arts
  University of Sheffield
  01 / 2009 - 01 / 2010
• MAS Psychotherapy / Child and Adolescent psychoanalytic and systemic Psychotherapy
  KJF, Lucern
  01 / 2002 - 01 / 2006
• PhD / Clinical Psychology
  University of Basel
  06 / 2000 - 06 / 2003
• Master (Lizenziat) / Clinical Psychology, Psychopathology for Children and Adolscents, Neuropsychology
  University of Zurich
  01 / 1992 - 01 / 1998

Continuing Education

• Internal Working Model of the Child Interview Training
  University of Michigan
  10 / 2025
• International Association for the Study of Attachment (IASA) Fellowship Programm
  IASA, Family Relations Institute
  10 / 2025

Network

Membership of networks

• Swiss Society of Early Childhood Research SSECR
• CYPHER Child and Youth Public Health Research competence network
• IASA International Association for the Study of Attachment

ORCID digital identifier

ORCID ID: 0000-0001-8601-2034

Projects

• Smart Toddlers / Team member / completed
• The influence of parental use of smartphones on maternal and paternal sensitivity to the infant / Team member / completed

Publications

• Fornasiero, Luisa; Horn, Anna-Lena; Braune-Krickau, Katrin; Forster, Fabienne,

  2026.

  Access and barriers to reproductive mental health services : a mixed-methods examination of self-stigmatization, help-seeking motivation and experiences with primary or reproductive healthcare professionals.

  Frontiers in Global Women's Health.

  6(1658534).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.3389/fgwh.2025.1658534

• Gemperle, Michael; Hächler, Ramona; Braune-Krickau, Katrin; Schneebeli, Larissa; von Wyl, Agnes,

  2025.

  Zwischen Distinktion und Disziplinierung : Smartphone-Nutzung als Mittel symbolischer Grenzziehungen beim Übergang zur Mutterschaft.

  Soziale Probleme.

  2025(2), pp. 134-150.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.3262/SP2502134

• Schneebeli, Larissa; Braune-Krickau, Katrin; Joliat, Anouk; von Wyl, Agnes,

  2025.

  The influence of difficult child temperament and parenting stress on parental problematic smartphone use in early childhood : a moderated mediation analysis.

  Frontiers in Psychology.

  16(1517222).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1517222

• von Wyl, Agnes; Hug, Meret; Schneebeli, Larissa; Braune-Krickau, Katrin; Gemperle, Michael; Hächler, Ramona; Wade-Bohleber, Laura,

  2024.

  Medienkonsum von Eltern.

  Frühförderung interdisziplinär.

  43(1), pp. 18-28.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.2378/fi2024.art02d

• Wade-Bohleber, Laura Maria; Braune-Krickau, Katrin; Schneebeli, Larissa; Gemperle, Michael; Haechler, Ramona; Pehlke-Milde, Jessica; von Wyl, Agnes,

  2024.

  Smartphone use during the perinatal period : findings from a longitudinal study with first-time parents.

  Computers in Human Behavior.

  154(108127).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2023.108127

• von Wyl, Agnes; Schneebeli, Larissa; Hubacher, Rahel; Braune-Krickau, Katrin,

  2022.

  Kindergartenkinder am Smartphone und Tablet : Zusammenhänge mit der sozial-emotionalen Entwicklung und Verhaltensproblemen – eine Scoping Review.

  Praxis der Kinderpsychologie und Kinderpsychiatrie.

  71(4), pp. 327-344.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.13109/prkk.2022.71.4.327

• Braune-Krickau, Katrin; Schneebeli, Larissa; Pehlke-Milde, Jessica; Gemperle, Michael; Koch, Ramona; von Wyl, Agnes,

  2021.

  Smartphones in the nursery : parental smartphone use and parental sensitivity and responsiveness within parent–child interaction in early childhood (0–5 years): a scoping review.

  Infant Mental Health Journal.

  42(2), pp. 161-175.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/imhj.21908

• von Wyl, Agnes; Wieber, Frank; Braune-Krickau, Katrin; Hengartner, Michael P.,

  2025.

  Die psychische Gesundheit von Kindern, Jugendlichen und jungen Erwachsenen.

  In:

  Schweizerisches Gesundheitsobservatorium (Obsan), ed.,

  Psychische Gesundheit in der Schweiz: Entwicklung, Förderung, Prävention und Versorgung : Nationaler Gesundheitsbericht 2025.

  Neuchâtel:

  Bundesamt für Statistik (BFS).

  pp. 74-105.

  Available from: https://www.obsan.admin.ch/sites/default/files/2025-09/ngb2025_de.pdf

• Gemperle, Michael; Pehlke-Milde, Jessica; Koch, Ramona; Braune-Krickau, Katrin; Schneebeli, Larissa; von Wyl, Agnes,

  2021.

  Das Smartphone und die Mutterschaftsbilder schwangerer Frauen[paper].

  In:

  6. Winterthurer Hebammensymposium, Winterthur, 11. September 2021.

• Joliat, Anouk; Gemperle, Michael; Braune-Krickau, Katrin; Schneebeli, Larissa; von Wyl, Agnes,

  2024.

  Das Smartphone beim Stillen : Hilfe und Hürde.

  Obstetrica.

  121(7), pp. 30-33.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-32437

• von Wyl, Agnes; Braune-Krickau, Katrin; Schneebeli, Larissa; Pehlke-Milde, Jessica,

  2021.

  Smartphones können die frühe Eltern-Kind-Interaktion stören.

  Pädiatrie.

  26(1).

• Braune-Krickau, Katrin; von Wyl, Agnes,

  2021.

  Das eigene Bindungstrauma überwinden.

  Die Hebamme.

  34(03), pp. 22-27.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1055/a-1474-8776

• Koch, Ramona; Gemperle, Michael; von Wyl, Agnes; Braune-Krickau, Katrin; Schneebeli, Larissa; Pehlke-Milde, Jessica,

  2020.

  Schädlich für Beziehungsaufbau oder wichtiger Draht zur Aussenwelt?.

  Obstetrica.

  2020(7/8), pp. 80-82.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-20348

• Braune-Krickau, Katrin,

  2025.

  It’s like a magnet : how do mothers experience instances of technoference in the mother-toddler relationship?.

  In:

  21st International Congress of the European Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (ESCAP), Strasbourg, France, 29 June - 1 July 2025.

• von Wyl, Agnes; Schneebeli, Larissa; Braune-Krickau, Katrin; Gemperle, Michael,

  2025.

  Toddlers’ reaction to interruption of partent-child interactions : is digital interruption worse than analog interruption?.

  In:

  21st International Congress of the European Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (ESCAP), Strasbourg, France, 29 June - 1 July 2025.

• Braune-Krickau, Katrin; Wade-Bohleber, Laura Maria; Edmaier, Heike; Pehlke-Milde, Jessica,

  2025.

  Hometreatment Early Years (HEY) : program development and first results of implementation.

  In:

  21st International Congress of the European Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (ESCAP), Strasbourg, France, 29 June - 1 July 2025.

• Braune-Krickau, Katrin; Schneebeli, Larissa; Gemperle, Michael; Joliat, Anouk Céline; von Wyl, Agnes,

  2025.

  Das Smartphone im Kinderzimmer : elterliche Smartphone-Nutzung in der frühen Kindheit.

  In:

  4. Early Life Care Konferenz : Ressourcen - Grundlagen für einen guten Start ins Leben : Abstractband.

  4. Early Life Care Konferenz, Salzburg, Österreich, 23.-25. Mai 2025.

  Salzburg:

  Institut für Early Life Care.

  pp. 18.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.4126/FRL01-006511915

• von Wyl, Agnes; Braune-Krickau, Katrin,

  2025.

  A baby goes to therapy : psychotherapeutische Unterstützung für Eltern und Babys.

  In:

  Raum für Psychologie, Zürich, Schweiz, 2. Februar 2025.

• Braune-Krickau, Katrin; Schneebeli, Larissa; Gemperle, Michael; von Wyl, Agnes,

  2025.

  Parental smartphone use in early childhood : results from the Smart Start and Smart Toddlers studies.

  In:

  6th Annual Meeting of the Swiss Society for Early Childhood Research (SSECR), Basel, Switzerland, 21-22 January 2025.

• Koch, Ramona; Gemperle, Michael; Braune-Krickau, Katrin; von Wyl, Agnes; Pehlke-Milde, Jessica,

  2019.

  Wie nutzen werdende Eltern ihr Smartphone?.

  In:

  Thieme.

  pp. 3-4.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0039-3401078

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