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Curriculum vitae

Clinical and Academic Training

• Diploma in Psychology, University of Leipzig
• Systemic Therapy, Coaching and Supervision, Systemic Society Germany
• Pediatric Palliative Care, Academy of Palliative Medicine and Hospice, University of Dresden
• Clinical Hypnosis (Milton H. Erickson)
• Client-centered conversational psychotherapy

Professional Career 

• Current Position Full Professor of Psychology, Faculty of Architecture and Social Sciences, Leipzig, University of Applied Sciences
• Research Assistant
  - Research and Transfer Centre, Leipzig University of Applied Sciences
  - Faculty of Social Sciences, Leipzig University of Applied Sciences
  - Department of Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology, University of Leipzig
• Coordinator of Outpatient Child Hospice, Leipzig
• Research Assistant, Department of Psychiatry, University of Leipzig

Research Experience 

• since 1998: dementia, nursing homes, health in the elderly
• since 2008: evaluation of psychotherapy training in Germany, migration and health
• since 2011: volunteering and health service, community based interventions

Research Interests 

• health services research, Palliative Care

Publications

• Leistner U., Schubert K., Sonntag, A. (2019): [From Vision to Reality - Establishment of a Coordination Office for Municipal Health in Leipzig]. In: Böhm K., Bräunling S., Geene R., Köckler H. (Eds.): [Health as a responsibility to society]. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
• Sonntag, A., Leistner, U. & Grande, G. (2013) [Wishes and worries of caregiving relatives concerning volunteers. Special Needs of Migrants.] [Migration and Social Work], 4, S. 362-369.
• Sonntag, A. (2012) [Patients with undefined physical complaints]. In Hoefert, H.-W. & Härter, M.(Eds.), [Difficult Patients]. Bern: Huber (S.19-28).
• Sonntag A, Glaesmer H, Barnow S, Brähler E, Fegert JM, Fliegel S, Freyberger HJ, Goldbeck L, Kohl S, Lebiger-Vogel J, Leuzinger-Bohleber M, Michels-Lucht F, Spröber N, Willutzki U, Strauß B (2009): [Psychotherapists‘ education from the perspective of trainees, Results of a survey in Germany]. Psychotherapeut, 54(6), 427-436.
• Sonntag, A., Matschinger, H., Angermeyer, M.C. & Riedel-Heller S.G. (2006). Does the context matter? Utilization of sedative drugs in nursing homes – a multilevel analysis. Pharmacopsychiatry 39: 142-149.