Katja Nowacki

Nowacki studied social work in Dortmund before she went to the University of Bochum/Germany, to study psychology and to receive her Ph.D. in 2007. As a social worker for drug addicts, delinquent teenagers and young adults as well as in child care, e.g. in a positions at the Outreach Clinic for Child Protection in Datteln, and as director of a children´s home in Herten, she is well experienced with psychopathological path­ways, and the child welfare system in Germany. In 2008 she became a professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Applied sciences and Arts in Dortmund. Her research has dealt with psychological well-being and attachment formation in foster children, in young German adults being taking care of in group homes, and in ethnic minority groups, especially young men from Turkey. She keeps mutual research contacts with colleagues from the Universities of Wolverhamp­ton/UK and Inholland/ Netherlands for the comparison of ethnic minority groups and the differences between European welfare systems.