Ines Dieckmännken is a state-recognized social worker/educator (B.A., M.A.) and a certified specialist social worker for clinical social work (CSW-ECCSW) as well as a certified clinical mentor (CM-ECCSW). She is doing her doctorate in the field of "Theory and Empiricism of Health Care" on work-related stress and the consequences of stress as well as the promotion of mental health in social work. Her research focuses on health-related social work/clinical social work topics such as social determinants of mental health (stigmatization and discrimination, unemployment and homelessness, poverty and precarity, ...). Another central focus is on human rights-based approaches to mental health care in the context of the UN CRPD. She is also involved in prevention and health promotion among social workers and social work students. Previously, she worked as a clinical social worker in an inpatient rehabilitation program for young adults with mental health conditions and in social services in a psychiatric ward.
