Meret Sophie Wallimann

Projects

• Assessing and improving access to health and social care SErvices for children RENdered vulnerable by Abuse / Team member / ongoing
• The role of schools in detecting and responding to child maltreatment / Team member / completed

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

• Wallimann, M. S., Beck, K., & Lätsch, D. C. (2026). Understanding the developmental impact of psychological maltreatment through the lens of the dimensional model of adversity and psychopathology. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 17(1), 2616980. https://doi.org/10.1080/20008066.2026.2616980
• Græsholt-Knudsen, T., Backhaus, S., Chauviré-Geib, K., Fujita, A., Jernbro, C., Lange, S., Neelakantan, L., Oberleiter, D., Sandoz, V., Wallimann, M. S., Wissmann, L., Hecker, T., Hafstad, G. S., & Meinck, F. (2025). Include all children : a discussion of improving self-report measures of violence for overlooked child populations. Child Protection and Practice, 7(100234). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chipro.2025.100234
• Stoll, D., Jud, A., Wehrli, S., Lätsch, D., Steinmann, S., Wallimann, M. S., & Quehenberger, J. (2025). Case reports unlocked : leveraging retrieval-augmented generation with large language models to advance research on psychological child maltreatment. Child Abuse & Neglect, 169(107653). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2025.107653
• Wallimann, M. S., Sætren, S. S., & Hafstad, G. S. (2025). Mapping adversities : a network analysis of childhood maltreatment and poly-adversity in a population-based sample. Child Abuse & Neglect, 167(107605). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2025.107605
• Wallimann, M. S., & Lätsch, D. (2025). Psychological maltreatment : discovering its different subtypes and related developmental risk factors. Child Abuse & Neglect, 167(107544). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2025.107544
• Schenkel, S., Emmerich, L., Arzapalo, H., Danböck, S. K., Dietiker, L., El-Haj-Mohamad, R., Meyer, C., Sperl, M. F.  J., Wendorff, C. v., Wallimann, M., Windthorst, P., Glaesmer, H., & Schäfer, I. (2023). Selbst- und Fremdaggression bei Frauen mit Posttraumatischer Belastungsstörung und substanz­bezogenen Störungen : welche Rolle spielen Emotionsregulationsstrategien? Trauma & Gewalt, 17(4), 296–311. https://doi.org/10.21706/tg-17-4-296
• Denier, N., Walther, S., Breit, S., Mertse, N., Federspiel, A., Meyer, A., Soravia, L. M., Wallimann, M., Wiest, R., & Bracht, T. (2023). Electroconvulsive therapy induces remodeling of hippocampal co-activation with the default mode network in patients with depression. NeuroImage: Clinical, 38(103404). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2023.103404
• Bracht, T., Denier, N., Wallimann, M., Walther, S., Mertse, N., Breit, S., Federspiel, A., Wiest, R., & Soravia, L. (2022). Hippocampal volume and parahippocampal cingulum alterations are associated with avoidant attachment in patients with depression. Journal of Affective Disorders Reports, 10(100435). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadr.2022.100435

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

• Stoll, D., Jud, A., Wehrli, S., Steinmann, S., Wallimann, M. S., & Quehenberger, J. (2025, September 10). Case reports unlocked : leveraging retrieval-augmented generation with large language models to advance research on child psychological maltreatment. 18th International Conference of the European Scientific Association on Residential & Family Care for Children and Adolescents (EuSARF), Zagreb, Croatia, 8-12 September 2025.
• Wallimann, M. S., Beck, K., & Lätsch, D. C. (2025, June 29). Disentangling the harmful effects of psychological maltreatment : contributions of the dimensional model of adversity and psychopathology. 21st International Congress of the European Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (ESCAP), Strasbourg, France, 29 June - 1 July 2025.
• Wallimann, M. S., Beck, K., & Lätsch, D. C. (2025, June 12). Disentangling the harmful effects of psychological maltreatment : contributions of the dimensional model of adversity and psychopathology. 18th European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies Conference (ESTSS), Tbilisi, Georgia, 12-15 June 2025.
• Wallimann, M. S., & Lätsch, D. (2024, August 19). Psychological maltreatment : discovering its different forms and related exposure characteristics. ISPCAN Congress, Uppsala, Sweden, 18-21 August 2024.

Other publications

Wallimann, M. S., Jud, A., Quehenberger, J., Gabriel, T., & Lätsch, D. (2025). Häufigkeiten von Gewalterfahrungen Jugendlicher im sozialen Nahraum. ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-34664.2

Oral conference contributions and abstracts

• Wallimann, M. S., Dinh, H. T., Quehenberger, J., Nguyen Thanh, H., Nguyen, T., Minh Le, T., Lätsch, D. C., & Gabriel, T. (2025, October 7). Disclosure of child physical abuse : a comparative study on prevalence and disclosure patterns in Switzerland and Vietnam. ISPCAN Congress, Vilnius, Lithuania, 5-9 October 2025.
• Stoll, D., Jud, A., Wehrli, S., Wallimann, M. S., Steinmann, S., & Quehenberger, J. (2025, October 6). Case reports unlocked : applying RAG-prompting methods and large language models to advance research on child maltreatment. ISPCAN Congress, Vilnius, Lithuania, 5-9 October 2025.
• Quehenberger, J., Wallimann, M. S., Affolter, K., Brink, I., & Gabriel, T. (2025, September 12). Understanding adolescents’ responses to psychologically abusive parenting : a mixed-methods study with implications for prevention and practice. 18th International Conference of the European Scientific Association on Residential & Family Care for Children and Adolescents (EuSARF), Zagreb, Croatia, 8-12 September 2025.
• Wallimann, M. S., & Lätsch, D. (2024, February 24). Psychische Misshandlung und Vernachlässigung : Erscheinungsformen und Expositionsfaktoren. Deutschsprachige Gesellschaft für Psychotraumatologie (DeGPT) Jahrestagung, Wien, Österreich, 22.-24. Februar 2024.
• Wallimann, M. S., Quehenberger, J., & Lätsch, D. (2024, January 11). Disclosing maltreatment : the role of early childhood. Swiss Society of Early Childhood Research (SSECR) Annual Meeting, St. Gallen, Switzerland, 10–11 January 2024.

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