Klinische Psychologie des Erwachsenenalters

Thilo Friehs (M.Sc.)

Office hours

by agreement

Contact

+49 6341 280-35658

thilo.friehs[at]rptu.de

Address

Room 3.1.04 (3rd floor)

Ostbahnstraße 10

76829 Landau

Education

Since 2019Postgraduate training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Weiterbildungsstudiengang in Psychologischer Psychotherapie (WiPP),
University Outpatient Clinic for Psychotherapy, Landau, Germany
Since 2019Ph.D. student
Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of
Koblenz-Landau, Germany
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Julia Glombiewski, Dr. Tobias Kube
2017 – 2018Master of Science in Psychology (Grade: excellent, 0.9)
Philipps-University of Marburg, Germany
Thesis: “Components of placebo effects in sadness” (Grade: very good, 1.0)
Supervisors: Dr. Tobias Kube, Prof. Dr. Winfried Rief
2012-2017Bachelor of Science in Psychology (Grade: good, 1.6)
Philipps-University of Marburg, Germany
Thesis: “Development and psychometric validation of a German version of
the Utrecht grief rumination scale (UGRS-D)” (Grade: very good, 1.0)
Supervisors: Dr. Bettina Döring, Prof. Dr. Winfried Rief
2011Allgemeine Hochschulreife [German higher education entrance
qualification] (Grade: very good, 1.3)
Gottfried-Arnold Gymnasium, Perleberg, Germany

 

Academic experience

Since 2019Research fellow
Pain and Psychotherapy Research Lab (Prof. Dr. Julia Glombiewski),
Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of
Koblenz-Landau, Germany
2018Student research assistant
Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Philipps-University
of Marburg, Germany
2014Student research assistant
Department of Methodology, Philipps-University of Marburg, Germany

 

Therapeutic experience

Since 2020Psychotherapist in Training
University Outpatient Clinic for Psychotherapy, WiPP, Landau, Germany
2019 – 2020Psychotherapist in Training
Pfalzklinikum for Psychiatry and Neurology, Klingenmünster, Germany
2017Psychotherapeutic internship
Vitos Clinic for psychiatry and psychotherapy, Marburg, Germany
2016Psychotherapeutic internship
Helios Rehabilitation center for psychosomatic medicine, psychotherapy,
and psychiatric rehabilitation, Bad Berleburg, Germany

 

Teaching experience

2019 – 2020Basic competences of Psychology: Group therapy and management
Undergraduate course
Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of
Koblenz-Landau, Germany
2018Evaluation
Undergraduate course as a guest lecturer
Department of Methodology, Philipps-University of Marburg, Germany
2015 – 2018Statistics
Undergraduate course as a student teaching assistant
Department of Methodology, Philipps-University of Marburg, Germany
2016 – 2017Basic competences of Psychotherapy: Therapeutic techniques of CBT
Undergraduate course as a student research assistant
Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Philipps-University
of Marburg, Germany

 

International experience

2015Study exchange
Visiting student at the University of Limerick, Ireland
Funding: Erasmus+ program of the European Union
2011 – 2012Travel abroad
“Work and Travel” in New Zealand

 

Awards

2020Award for excellent teaching
Department of Psychology, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany

 

Funding

2019Research Fund for the participation at the 2nd official SIPS conference on
placebo studies
550€, Förderung des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses, University of
Koblenz-Landau, Germany

 

Research interests

Placebo effects and mechanisms
Usability of placebo effects in pharmacological treatments
Processes and mechanisms of psychotherapy
Behavioral Medicine

Journal articles (peer reviewed)

 

2022

Friehs, T., & Kube, T. (2022). Erwartungen als Kernmechanismus des Placeboeffekts: Implikationen
für die psychotherapeutische Praxis [Expectations as a core mechanism of the placebo effect:
implications for the psychotherapeutic practice]. Psychotherapeut.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00278-022-00591-0

Friehs, T., Rief, W., Glombiewski, J. A., Haas, J., & Kube, T. (2022). Deceptive and non-deceptive
placebos to reduce sadness: A five-armed experimental study. Journal of Affective Disorders
Reports, 100349. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadr.2022.100349

Kube, T., Friehs, T., Glombiewski, J. A., & Gollwitzer, M. (2022). Depression is not related to deficits in
emotional reasoning skills. Personality and Individual Differences, 196, 111728.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2022.111728

 

2020

Emmerich, A. C., Friehs, T., Crombez, G., & Glombiewski, J. A. (2020). Self‐compassion predicting
pain, depression and anger in people suffering from chronic pain: A prospective study.
European Journal of Pain, ejp.1638. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejp.1638

 

2018

Doering, B. K., Barke, A., Friehs, T., & Eisma, M. C. (2018). Assessment of grief-related rumination:
Validation of the German version of the Utrecht grief rumination scale (UGRS). BMC
Psychiatry, 18(1), 43. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-018-1630-1

 

Conference contributions

Friehs, T. (2022). Behandlungserwartungen verändern – eine Open-label Placebostudie im
Hitzeschmerzparadigma [Changing treatment expectations - an open-label placebo study
using the heat pain paradigm]. Presentation at the 1. Deutscher Psychotherapiekongress
(Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie, DGPs) [1st German congress on Psychotherapy
(German Psychological Society)], Berlin, Germany.

Friehs, T., Kube, T. (2021). How to build expectations: A study comparing deceptive and open-label
placebo in sadness. Presentation at the 3rd International Conference of the Society for
Interdisciplinary Placebo Studies (SIPS), Baltimore, USA (online conference).

Friehs, T., Rief, W., Glombiewski, J. A., Haas, J., Kube, T. (2021). Placebos mit und ohne Täuschung –
ein fünfarmiges Experiment bei Traurigkeit [Placebos with and without deception - a five-
armed experiment on sadness]. Presentation at the 38. Symposium der Fachgruppe Klinische
Psychologie und Psychotherapie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs) [38th
Symposium of the Division of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy of the German
Psychological Society], Mannheim, Germany (online conference).

Friehs, T., Rief, W., Glombiewski, J. A., Haas, J., Kube, T. (2019). How to administer deceptive and
open-label placebos? A five-armed experimental study on sadness. Poster presentation at
the 2nd Official SIPS conference on Placebo Studies (Society for Interdisciplinary Placebo
Studies, SIPS), Leiden, Netherlands.

Friehs, T., Rief, W., Glombiewski, J. A., Haas, J., Kube, T. (2019). Wie kann die Wirkung verdeckter und
offener Placebos optimiert werden? – Erkenntnisse eines fünfarmigen Experiments bei
Traurigkeit [How can the effects of deceptive and non-deceptive placebos be optimized? -
Findings from a five-arm experiment on sadness]. Poster presentation at the 37. Symposium
der Fachgruppe Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs) [37th Symposium of the Division of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy
of the German Psychological Society], Erlangen, Germany.

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