Prof. Dr. Uli Sann

+49 661 9640-229
+49 661 9640-249
uli.sann(at)sw.hs-fulda.de

Psychology, counselling and therapy

Fulda University of Applied Sciences
Building 21, Room 10
Leipziger Straße 123
36037 Fulda

Consultation hours: Appointments by arrangement.

CV

  • 2009-present: Head of the "Master's programme Psychosocial Counselling and Therapy (MaBeTh)".
  • 2008-today: professorship for theories and methods of advisory service and psychotherapy at the Fulda University of Applied Sciences, Department of Social Work
  • 2002-2008: Institute for Educational Psychology in the Adult Education Department, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main: research and practical projects on planning and evaluating training and counselling measures, prevention, stress and coping with stress, funding for competences for action and diagnostic competences, and on mental health problems
  • 2004: Doctoral degree from the Department of Human Medicine at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
  • 2002: Licence to practise as a psychological psychotherapist
  • 2000-2002: Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Frankfurt am Main: psychological adviser and behavioural therapy work in the psychosomatic consultation and liaison service and on the ward for psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy; specialisations: Adviser, crisis intervention, psychotherapy
  • 1999-2000: Team for organisational psychology, Frankfurt: conception and implementation of training courses for adult education and human resources development
  • 1997-1999: Academic employee at the Institute for Educational Psychology in the Adult Education Department, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
  • 1997-2008: Teaching assignments at various universities and colleges of higher education
  • 1994-present: Freelance trainer, coach and adviser for various enterprises and non-profit organisations

Training, continuing education and further education:

  • Psychological psychotherapy (Goethe University Frankfurt am Main)
  • Trainer in motivational interviewing according to Miller & Rollnick (GK Quest Academy, Heidelberg)
  • Rational-Emotive Behaviour Therapy (Albert Ellis Institute, New York)
  • Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy (AWKV, Friedrichsdorf)
  • Health psychology (in the curriculum Psychological Health Promotion of the Association of German Psychologists)
  • University didactics

University studies

  • University studies in psychology (Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main)
  • University studies in psychology (University of Texas in Austin) as scholarship holder of the Federation of German-American Clubs
  • Complementary studies in human medicine (Goethe University Frankfurt am Main)

Teaching Areas

Teaching areas in the Master:

  • Psychosocial advisory service
  • Interventions in advisory services and psychotherapy
  • Research and evaluation methods
  • Core competencies of professional leadership
  • Case analysis
  • Social psychology

Teaching areas in the Bachelor's degree:

  • Psychosocial advisory service
  • Communication and interviewing
  • Mediation-oriented advisory service
  • Psychological basics
  • Development and socialisation
  • Health promotion
  • Research Methods

Teaching areas in academic continuing university education:

  • Debt counselling
  • Advising in difficult advisory situations

Areas of Research

  • Change processes in the context of advising, coaching and teaching
  • Management and communication in social organisations, educational institutions and public administration
  • Emotion and motivation in teaching and learning interactions
  • Motivational interviewing
  • Opportunities and risks in the use of simulation clients
  • Funding of competences for action and diagnostic competences
  • Implementation and evaluation of training and counselling measures
  • Stress and coping with stress
  • Psychological problems

Research Projects

  • 2017-2018: Contextual conditions of management in municipal administrations. Influence of personality, situation and framework conditions on leadership success (together with Prof. Dr. Frank Unger and colleagues from the universities of Coburg and Lucerne).
  • 2014-2018: Fulda Bildet Lebensbegleitend - FuBiLe (together with Prof. Dr. Frank Unger and Prof. Dr. Sabine Pfeffer)
  • 2012-2014: "Use of standardised clients to fund the acquisition of competences in psychosocial fields of work" as part of the funding of new teaching and learning methods at the Fulda University of Applied Sciences
  • 2000-2003: European research group "EuroTeach" to investigate the working conditions and health status of teachers (Coordination: Prof. Stan Maes, Leiden University, The Netherlands)

Memberships

  • Member of the academic research centre CeSSt (Centre of Research for Society and Sustainability) at Fulda University of Applied Sciences
  • Head of the competence field "Educational Psychology" as well as member of the academic advisory board of the Frankfurt Future Council
    (www.frankfurter-zukunftsrat.de)
  • Hessian Chamber of Psychotherapists
  • Association of University Teachers

Publications

Presentations / Seminars

Publications

Fuldaer Nachrichten on the appointment to the professorship for theories and methods of advisory service and psychotherapy at the department of social work at the Fulda University of Applied Sciences

Head of the competence field "Educational Psychology" at the Frankfurt Future Council

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