Dahlnym Yoon

Prof. Dr. Dahlnym Yoon has been Professor of Legal Psychology at the Medical School Hamburg since November 2021. Previously, between 2017 and 2021, she was one of the lecturers and researchers in the Department of Personality, Legal Psychology & Diagnostics, aka. the Dark Tetrad Assessment and Research Team Hagen (DARTh Lab) at the FernUniversität in Hagen, where she taught and researched legal psychology, personality psychology and test diagnostics topics. Between April 2017 and February 2018, she also taught at the Medical School Berlin in the Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy program. Until moving to the FernUniversität, she worked in research projects evaluating treatment measures in social therapeutic institutions and in Hamburg, which was run by the Institute for Sexual Research, Sexual Medicine and Forensic Psychiatry, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf (2010-2014) and in Berlin, which was run by the Institute for Forensic Psychiatry at the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin (2014-2017). She also participated in an international research project (2014) funded by the Korean Institute of Criminology (KIC) aimed at optimizing the current criminal justice system for sex offenders in South Korea. She also gained her first professional experience at the Institute for Sexual Research, Sexual Medicine and Forensic Psychiatry, where she carried out diagnostic and organizational activities in the Forensic Outpatient Clinic and in the Forensic Psychiatric Expert Service between 2009 and 2013. Following her bachelor's degree in psychology and German studies at the EWHA Womans University in Seoul, South Korea, and her master's degree in international criminology at the University of Hamburg, which she successfully completed with the support of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), she completed her doctorate on the topic of "Resource-oriented risk assessment and intervention with sex offenders" at the University of Hamburg and the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, which was funded by the doctoral scholarship of the University of Hamburg and rated "summa cum laude". She also studied legal psychology at the Berlin School of Psychology and has been working as a forensic psychological expert for prognosis assessment on behalf of the Berlin Regional Court since 2017. teaching activities Since 2011, she has been an official trainer for the “Structured Assessment of PROtective Factors (SAPROF)”, a clinically structured assessment instrument for protective factors against the risk of violence, and conducts training and further education for clinical staff in correctional facilities and prisons as well as forensic psychology researchers. Since 2012, it has been offering teaching and training events as well as supervising bachelor's, master's and doctoral theses on the subject of diagnostics, criminal responsibility, criminal prognosis and treatment (evaluation) of criminal offenders. In particular, on the dark side, it focuses on paraphilia, psychopathy, violence and sexual delinquency, while on the light side, it focuses on protective factors and change measurements in the context of criminal offender treatment. research priorities Similar to her teaching focus, her research focuses can be divided into dark and light sides. The resource-oriented risk assessment of offenders on the light side continues to be her research focus. In cooperation with the UKE and the Charité, the evaluation studies of offender treatments are therefore being continued and deepened, taking protective factors into account, whereby she is currently particularly interested in innovative methods for measuring change and examining interactions between risk and protective factors. On the dark side, she is interested in comparing classical and alternative models and measurement methods for psychopathy, such as the classical four-factor model by Robert D. Hare and the alternative triarchic model by Christopher J. Patrick. She is interested in optimizing existing methods for mapping psychopathy, especially as a dimensional construct in both the general population and the criminal population.