Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology

Research

Research

The Division of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology is particularly dedicated to the following overarching research topics:

  1. Early diagnosis and prevention with a special focus on dynamic modelling of developmental processes and intervention effects
  2. Influence of social media and use of new technologies for psychotherapy  
  3. Personalised psychotherapy through identification of mechanisms of action, process research and systematic inclusion of adolescents 
  4. Development-specific features in diagnostics and therapy 

BePart

The BePart study explores the wishes and needs of young people in relation to an online intervention programme through qualitative interviews. What content, design aspects, or instructions are important to them and why? The answers are transcribed and analysed. You can find more information about the study here. 
 

EMERGE

SOPHIE

The SOPHIE study investigates the efficacy of the online-intervention SOPHIE for adolescents with subclinical social anxiety (i.e., indicated prevention) or with a social anxiety disorder in a randomized controlled trial. The intervention group is thereby compared to a care of usual control group. In addition, ecological momentary assessment is used to examine the implementation of the learned contents in the adolescents' everyday life and to frequently assess possible maintaining factors of social anxiety to model them as mediators of change.

CARE

CARE- Innovative AI-supported diagnostics and treatment for people with an increased risk of psychosis. You can find more information about the Care project in German here.

EMPATIA

The EMPATIA study investigates the efficacy of the transdiagnostic online prevention program EMPATIA for adolescents.

SENTI-M

The SENTI-M study aims to learn more about whether smartphone data can predict adolescents' mental health and how smartphones and social media affect adolescents' mental health. 

Find more information here: SENTI-M

CLEMA

CLEMA - Climate Change and Mental Health in Adolescents

Questionnaire study on the relationship between climate change and mental health in young people. More information here.