Collaborations

Collaboration with the Monash University, Australia. CBT-based mental health mobile-phone app. Studies on users profiling, users engagement. (Mood Mission)

Collaboration with the University of Sheffield, UK (Michael Barkham). Pragmatic trial to compare CBT vs. PCET therapy for depression. (Practiced Trial)

European Psychotherapy Consortium (EPoC): Collaborative initiative with several European Universities for homogenous data collection in the context of psychological therapies initiated by the European Psychotherapy Consortium (EPoC) of the European Chapter of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (EU-SPR).

Collaboration with the University of Mannheim, Germany (Tina In-Albon), the German Centre for Mental Health in Tübingen, and the Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy of Childhood and Adolescence at Trier University, Germany (Elena v. Wirth). Development and validation of a transdiagnostic core process outcome module for child and adolescent psychotherapy. Longitudinal validation study with children/adolescents and their caregivers in psychotherapeutic treatment. (COPOM KiJU)

Collaboration with the University of Sheffield, UK (Jaime Delgadillo). RCT investigating the effectiveness of a modularized, transdiagnostic, digitally-enabled 12-session group intervention for common mental disorders, delivered via a digital platform and compared to individual CBT. (UpLift X3)

Collaboration with the University of Osnabrück, Germany (Julian Rubel): Our collaboration with Osnabrück University is rooted in a long-standing connection with Prof. Julian Rubel, who completed his PhD in Trier. This partnership spans multiple projects, primarily focusing on Natural Language Processing (NLP) to extract insights from psychotherapy transcripts for research. 

Collaboration with the University of Augsburg, Germany (Elisabeth André): We maintain a long-term, interdisciplinary collaboration with the Chair for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence at Augsburg University, led by Prof. Elisabeth André. Our joint work focuses on using the DISCOVER framework and NOVA software for psychotherapy video analysis, enabling advanced research applications. This collaboration is also supported by a DFG-funded project exploring emotion expression analysis through neural networks.

Collaboration with the Instituto Patagónico de Estudios de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales, Argentina (IPECH; UNCO-CONICET; Andrés Roussos, Juan Martín Gómez Penedo): We conduct a cross-cultural Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) study to enhance the prediction of treatment response and dropout for patients with depression. This project is DFG-funded.

Collaboration with the University of Helsinki, Finland (Tom Rosenström and Veera Malkki): Assessment of individual treatment effects of assigning patients to their most optimal psychotherapeutic frameworks. Collaboration with Linnaeus University, Sweden (Fredrik Falkenström): Development and implementation of a feedback-system to support personalized treatment.

Collaboration with the University of Oslo, Norway (Sverre Urnes Johnson): Investigation of the development of different mental disorders over time, suggestion of key mechanisms of change and development of personalized feedback.

Collaboration with the Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine/School of Public Health, Japan (Toshi A. Furukawa): One project developed a smartphone CBT app that implements various CBT skills. Another project conducted a large individually randomised control trial of internet-based cognitive behavioural therapy