Research Areas
Our institute covers the entire field of clinical psychology and psychotherapy, including health psychology. Characteristic is the project-related research orientation with various projects regarding:
- the derivation, development and testing of improved etiological and pathogenetic models for mental disorders,
- the investigation of the connection between various mental disorders and mental disorders and somatic diseases,
- research into electrophysiological and neurobiological changes as mechanisms and risk factors for mental disorders
- the derivation of improved diagnostic methods and models,
- the derivation, development and evaluation of improved intervention principles in therapy and prevention
- the derivation, testing and implementation of new care strategies and models.
At the institute, a number of inter-professorial working groups are implemented. A detailed description can be found in our Status Report of the ICPP 2017.