Prof. Dr. Noëlle Behringer

Theories and casuistry of social work
Methods of social work
(Critical) developmental psychology
Consequences of the institutionalization of social work
Focus on "Social work in the context of psychological crises"
Theories of everyday life and the subject

Psychoanalytical pedagogy
Mentalization-based pedagogy (active and sponsored member of the MentEd network: https://mented.de/)
Biographical self-reflection and professionalization
Child and youth services

Board member of MentEd - Internationales Netzwerk Soziales Lernen, Beziehung und Mentalisieren e.V.(https://mented.de) 
Board member of the German Association for Depth Psychology-Based Psychotherapy/Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (DFT) e.V.(https://www.dft-online.de/)

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Erziehungswissenschaften e.V. (DGfE)
Section 8 - Social Pedagogy and Pedagogy of Early Childhood
Section 13 - Differential Educational Research (Commission for Psychoanalytic Pedagogy & Agora for Psychoanalytic Pedagogy)
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziale Arbeit e.V. (DGSA)
Frankfurter Arbeitskreis für Psychoanalytische Pädagogik e.V. (FAPP) Frankfurt Working Group for Psychoanalytic Pedagogy e.V. (FAPP)
Arbeitskreis Tiefenhermeneutik und Sozialisationstheorie Frankfurt
Arbeitsgemeinschaft Psychodynamischer Professorinnen und Professoren e.V. (AGPPP)
MentEd - Internationales Netzwerk Soziales Lernen, Beziehung und Mentalisieren e. V. (board member) V. (board member)
Deutsche Gesellschaft für tiefenpsychologisch fundierte Psychotherapie/Psychodynamische Psychotherapie (DFT) e.V. (board member)
Hochschullehrerbund e.V. (hlb)
Psychotherapeutenkammer Rheinland-Palatinate (Rhineland-Palatinate Chamber of Psychotherapists)

2015-2020: Scholarship holder of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes e.V.
2020-2021: Doctoral graduation scholarship according to the State Graduate Funding Act at the Ludwigsburg University of Education

since 2024     Professor of Social Work in the Context of Mental Health Crises at Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society
since 2023     Supervisor at a mother-child day clinic
since 2019     Lecturer and lecturer at Humboldt University in Berlin and Darmstadt Protestant University of Applied Sciences
2023-2024  Professor of Social Work at the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University Villingen-Schwenningen
2022-2023  Advanced Researcher at the Intercantonal University of Applied Sciences for Special Needs Education Zurich
2021-2022  Substitute Professor in the Childhood Education degree programs at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt
2019-2021  Doctorate (Dr. phil.) at the Ludwigsburg University of Education at the Faculty of Special Education
                                    on the topic of mentalization in home education
2019-2021  Master's degree in Clinical Psychology and Empowerment at DIPLOMA University
2017-2021  Child and adolescent psychotherapist in training (depth psychology-based) at
                                    Wiesbadener Akademie für Psychotherapie
2018-2020  Teamer for module seminars for the German Red Cross in Hesse Volunta gGmbH
2016-2017  Social pedagogue in school and extracurricular settings of child and youth welfare
2016-2017  Master's degree in Social Work at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt
2012-2016  Bachelor's degree in Social Work at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt
2013-2016  School participation assistance at a special school

MONOGRAPHIES
1.   Behringer, N. (2021). Mentalizing in home education. A qualitative study on reflexive processes among educational professionals. Springer VS [doctoral thesis].

EDITION OF COLLECTED VOLUMES AND THEME BOOKS
1.   Link, P.-C., Behringer, N., Turner, A., Kreuzer, T., Schwarzer, N.H. (in prep.). Mentalization-based inclusion and special education in schools. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. Publication planned for 09/2024.
2.   Kreuzer, T., Langnickel, R., Behringer, N., Link, P.C. (i.V.). Childlike play. Anthology of the fall conference of the Commission "Psychoanalytic Pedagogy" of the DGfE at the Ludwigsburg University of Education in cooperation with Movetia MentEd 2023. Barbara Budrich. Publication planned for 07/2024.
3.   Schwarzer, N.-H., Behringer, N., Link, P.C., Turner, A. (ed.). Thematic issue: Attachment and mentalizing as aspects of effective pedagogical action and relationship competence. Guest issue of the thematic issue of Empirical Pedagogy (with peer-review process). Publication planned for 09/2024.

ZEITSCHRIFTENBEITRÄGE (PEER-REVIEWED)
1.   Niederöst, M., Röösli, P., Hövel, D., Behringer, N., Hennes, A.-K., Philippek, J., Schabmann, A., Schmidt, B. (in progress). Predestination of special educational assessment? An empirical study of expert reports in the field of emotional and social development. ESE. Emotional and Social Development in Educational Support Pedagogy and Behavioral Disorders. Issue 6: In den Fokus ver-rückt - Hidden Topics im FSP ESE. Published by Julius Klinkhardt.
2.   Schwarzer, N.-H., Behringer, N., Beyer, A., Gingelmaier, S., Henter, M., Müller, L.-M., Link, P.-C. (2023). Scope of a mentalization-based pedagogy in the focus of support for emotional and social development - a narrative review. ESE. Emotional and Social Development in Educational Support Pedagogy and Behavioral Disorders. Issue 5: Scope of a pedagogy of socio-emotional developmental support. Verlag Julius Klinkhardt, 90-102.
3.   Langnickel, R., Behringer, N., Link, P.-C. (2023). Logics of exploded and exploding systems: On the necessity of differentiating between active and passive "system blasters:inside". Society - Individual - Socialization. Journal for Socialization Research, 4(1).
4.   Kreuzer, T., Erne, J.,Behringer, N. & Turner, A., Brauner, F., Gingelmaier, S., Müller, L., Nolte, T., Schwarzer, N.-H., Beyer, A., Kirsch, H. (2023). Mentalizing as a psychosocial inoculation in child and adolescent psychotherapy. Praxis der Kinderpsychologie und Kinderpsychiatrie. 72/1, 14-22.
5.   Behringer, N. (2022). Mentalizing in work with child protection cases - Highlights on theory, empiricism and practice. Zeitschrift für Individualpsychologie, 47, 333-346.
6.   Behringer, N. (2022). "And what does that feel like? It feels like nothing at all. Like a deep, empty, endless nothingness." - A psychodynamic interpretation of "13 reasons why" and implications for adolescent psychotherapy. Praxis der Kinderpsychologie und Kinderpsychiatrie, 71, 39-54.
7.   Behringer, N. & Gauler, N. (2021). "This has nothing to do with religion!" On what is helpful and challenging in mentalization-based work with culture-related identity insecurities in adolescent psychotherapy. Child and adolescent psychotherapy. Journal of Psychoanalysis and Depth Psychology, 4, 531-550.

ZEITSCHRIFTENBEITRÄGE
1.     Behringer, N. (2023). New authority - power and shaming under the guise of presence, perseverance and resistance? A psychoanalytic-pedagogical invitation to reflection. ESE. Emotional and Social Development in the Pedagogy of Educational Support and Behavioral Disorders. Issue 5: Scope of a pedagogy of socio-emotional developmental support. Verlag Julius Klinkhardt, 198-211.
2.     Behringer, N., Turner, A., Beyer, A., Brauner, F., Gingelmaier, S., Kirsch, H., Kreuzer, T., Müller, L.-M., Nolte, T., Schwarzer, N.-H. (2023). Mentalizing as psychosocial inoculation - a contribution to professionalization in pedagogical fields. Unsere Jugend (Ernst Reinhardt Verlag), 2-12.
3.     Link, P.-C., Schwarzer, N.-H., Kirsch, H., Nolte, T., Behringer, N., Kreuzer, T. F., Turner, A., Wininger, M., Henter, M., Fonagy, P., Hutsebaut, J., Gingelmaier, S. (2022). Adaptation of mentalization-based curative and special education in the Swiss education system at tertiary level. Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Heilpädagogik (SZH), Vol. 28, 11/2022, 63.
4.     Link, P.-C., Schwarzer, N.H., Kirsch, H., Fonagy, P., Behringer, N., Kreuzer, T., Turner, A., Wininger, M., Henter, M., Hutsebaut, J., Gingelmaier, S. (2022). Bringing Mentalization-based Education to Switzerland (MentEd.ch). Vierteljahresschrift für Heilpädagogik und ihre Nachbargebiete (VHN), 4.2022, 336-338.
5.     Behringer, N. (2021). Understanding each other with and through each other. Opportunities and limits of psychoanalytic-pedagogical home education. Dialog Erziehungshilfe, 1, 15-20.
6.     Behringer, N., Gingelmaier, S., Kirsch, H. (2021). Mentalizing in home education - Results of a qualitative study on reflexive processes among educational professionals. Evangelische Jugendhilfe, 2, 160-167.
7.     Behringer, N., Gingelmaier, S., Kirsch, H. (2021). Reflections on promoting a mentalizing attitude in home education: "And perhaps his behaviour should radiate that I should not probe deeper in conversation - as a strategy to block his trauma internally". Blickpunkt Jugendhilfe, 2, 15-21.
8.     Behringer, N., Kirsch, H., Gingelmaier, S. (2021). What does the mentalization concept do for home education? Blickpunkt Jugendhilfe, 2, 3-8.
9.               Behringer, N., Weishaupt, J., Gingelmaier, S. (2021). Promoting mentalization? Yes! But how? With mindfulness and improvisational theater. A collection of concrete exercises. Blickpunkt Jugendhilfe, 2, 22-30.

BOOK CONTRIBUTIONS
1.   Behringer, N. (n.d.). Biography work. In R. Markowetz, T. Hennemann, D. Hövel & G. Casale (Eds.), Handbuch Förderschwerpunkt emotional-soziale Entwicklung. Beltz Juventa.
2.   Holger, K., Behringer, N., Henter, M., Hutsebaut, J., Link, P.C., Kreuzer, T., Nolter, T., Turner, A., Schwarzer, N.H., Gingelmaier, S. (n.d.). Can mentalizing be taught? On education and training in mentalization-based pedagogy. In P.C. Link, N. Behringer, A. Turner, T. Kreuzer, N.H. Schwarzer, N.H. (Eds.), Mentalization-based inclusion and special education in schools. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
3.   Behringer, N., Langnickel, R., Link, P.-C. (2023). (Professional) biographical self-reflection as a transformational educational process in the academic training of pedagogical professionals. In J. Studer, E. Abplanalp, S. Sotoudeh (Eds.), Promoting personal development in higher education. Volume 2: Understanding and accompanying reflection processes (pp. 31-48). Hep-Verlag.
4.   Behringer, N., Langnickel, R., Link, P.-C. (2023). "I idealized my parents. And I practically lifted them off their thrones" - Biographical self-reflection as an initial spark for individual professionalization. Selected results of a qualitative-empirical pilot study. In D. Zimmermann, L. Dietrich, J. Hofman & J. Hokema (Eds.), Social crises and their effects on families, pedagogical professionalism and organizations (Series of publications of the DGfE Commission on Psychoanalytic Pedagogy) (pp. 143-160). Barbara Budrich Verlag.
5.   Kirsch, H., Behringer, N. (2023). Academization of psychotherapy training in Germany. In A. Drossos, W. Datler, E. Gornik & C. Korunka (Ed.), Academization of psychotherapy. Historical Approaches and Current Developments (pp. 49-66). Facultas.
6.   Link, P.-C., Behringer, N., Maier, L., Gingelmaier, S., Kirsch, H., Nolte, T., Turner, A., Müller, X., Schwarzer, N.H. (2023). "Those who mentalize understand others better" - Mentalizing as a development-oriented professionalization strategy. In W. Burk & C. Stalder (Eds.), Development-oriented education in practice (pp. 49-66). Beltz Juventa.
7.   Behringer, N. (2023). Epistemic trust in residential child and youth care. In P. Fonagy & T. Nolte (Eds.), Epistemic trust. From concept to application in psychotherapy and psychosocial counseling (pp. 390-409). Klett-Cotta.
8.   Behringer, N., Koch, E. J. (2021). (Self-) Encouragement through mentalizing - an application-oriented guide (for students). In T. F. Kreuzer & S. Albers (Eds.), Self-reflection (Transfer, Vol. 21) (pp. 47-66). Schneider Hohengehren.
9.   Behringer, N., Weichel, L. (2020). "Wenn der Eisberg ins Wanken gerät" - Mentalisierungsförderung im Lernhilfekontext. In S. Gingelmaier & H. Kirsch (Eds.), Praxisbuch mentalisierungsbasierte Pädagogik (pp. 150-161). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
10.     Behringer, N. (2020). Mentalization processes in the context of inpatient child and youth welfare. Theoretical framing and reflective considerations on exemplary everyday situations. In S. Gingelmaier & H. Kirsch (Ed.), Practice book mentalization-based pedagogy (pp. 191-203). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
11.     Koch, E. J., Behringer, N. (2020). Formation of affects - points of contact and divergences between psychoanalytic and mentalization-based pedagogy. In B. Rauh, N. Welter & M. Franzmann (Eds.), Emotion - Disciplining - Professionalization. Pädagogik im Spannungsfeld von Integration der Emotionen und 'neuen' Disziplinierungstechniken (Publication series of the DGfE Commission on Psychoanalytic Pedagogy, pp. 273-284). Barbara Budrich Publishers.

REZENSIONEN UND SONSTIGE PUBLIKATIONEN
1.   Behringer, N. (2023). Review of Matthias Euteneuer, Anke Kerschgens: New beginnings after separations. Design and development paths for families. Stuttgart: Verlag W. Kohlhammer 2023. socialnet.de. Available at: https://www.socialnet.de/rezensionen/31246.php.
2.   Behringer, N. (2023). Psychoanalytic pedagogy in residential child and youth care. Encyclopedia of Educational Science online. Subject area psychoanalytic pedagogy.
3.   Behringer, N., Langnickel, R., Link, P.-C. (2022). Psychoanalytic pedagogy - an approach. The daycare center handbook [online]. Available at: https://www.kindergartenpaedagogik.de/fachartikel/paedagogische-ansaetze/klassische-paedagogische-ansaetze-allgemeines/psychoanalytische-paedagogik-eine-annaeherung/
4.   Behringer, N. (2021). Review of Robert Langnickel: Prolegomena to the pedagogy of the split subject. A necessary RISS in special education. Opladen et al: Barbara Budrich. Practice of Child Psychology and Child Psychiatry, 8, 761-763.