Michael Dobe

Dr. Michael Dobe works as Head Psychologist in the German Paediatric Pain Centre at the Children`s and Adolescent`s Hospital, Datteln, and in private practice. Michael Dobe is a trained family, child and adolescent psychotherapist and trauma therapist for children. In 2006, he received the Stefan Engel Science Prize of the German Society for Social Pediatrics and Youth Medicine for his research in pediatric pain therapy. In 2010, he was honored by the German Society for Psychological Pain Therapy and Pain Research for the development of a new methodology in treating combined pain and trauma disorder in children. He is Editor and co-author of "Practical treatment options for chronic pain in children and adolescents. An interdisciplinary therapy manual", Springer, 2013, and has written and contributed to many books in German language for children with chronic pain and their parents. He is head of the special interest group for pediatric pain therapy of the German Society for psychological pain therapy and research (DGPSF).