Head: Prof. Dr. Dr. Christina Stadler

Patients with mental disorders often have difficulties in recognizing and regulating their emotions, which can have an unfavourable effect on their mental well-being as well as interpersonal communication and interaction.

Studies by our working group focus on the question of which individual, familial, social, and socio-economic risk factors might impair the processing and regulation of emotions. For example, to what extent do parent-child relationships, parental stress or stress due to migration, experiences of violence, but also the influence of digital media, physical health or functional physical complaints play a role? To investigate these questions, we combine clinical assessments and neurobiological methods in order to comprehensively examine the complex bio-psychosocial interactions between emotional processes and mental health.

In addition, we have already been able to develop and test effective intervention programs for children and adolescents that aim to improve emotion regulation and resilience. A central goal here is to implement these programs in the real-life environments of children, for example in schools or homes. We are also interested in the extent to which web-based interventions could represent an effective treatment approach for motivating hard-to-reach young people to undergo an intervention.

Team
Prof. Christina Stadler
Dr. Donja Brunner
Dr. Eva Unternährer
MSc. Jalisse Schmid (Doktorandin)
MSc. Janine Bacher (Doktorandin)
MSc. Lena Zarifoglu (Doktorandin)
BSc. Gian Covo (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter)