WP5. Psychological research and treatments

Psychological treatments and interventions comprise a large group of methods and approaches to address the needs of patients and groups of patients with mental disorders or mental health problems, as well as their networks of support as it applies to prevention, treatment and rehabilitation. The effectiveness of strictly psychological treatments is well established of variants of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) in the area of many mental disorders. However, there is still a general lack of understanding about the basic mechanisms of behavior, the behavior change in the specific context of CBT, and a fundamental lack of knowledge about the situation of research on psychological treatments and interventions in Europe.

Therefore ROAMER coordination strategies for promotion and integration of research in the field of psychological research and treatments include developing a consensus about terminology and concepts; collecting existing data on psychological and psychosocial treatments in Europe; developing a map of existing research centres and programmes involved in psychotherapy research as well as more broadly psychological and psychosocial interventions; developing a methodology to identify gaps between science, evidence-based psychological methods and their application and delivery in routine care; and the integration of knowledge and insight gathered.

• To assess the current state of the art within psychological research and treatments
• To assess gaps and advances within psychological research and treatments
• To prioritise gaps and advances to provide for solutions for gaps within the field of psychological research and treatments

Prof. Hans-Ulrich Wittchen

Dr. Susanne Knappe

First scientific workshop to review the state-of-art in psychological research and treatments across Europe

The workshop, hosted by Prof. Ulrich Wittchen (Technische Universität  Dresden, TUD), took place successfully in Dresden (Germany) at  the Institute of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy,  Technische Universität  Dresden on June 1-2 , 2012.

Click to the following link to download the agenda of the event.
Click to the following link to download the list of participants of the event.

See the pictures of the event here.

Second scientific workshop to review the state-of-art in psychological research and treatments across Europe

The second scientific workshop of WP5 was successfully organized in London on the 1st of March 1, 2013. The workshop was hosted by Professor Hans-Ulrich Wittchen. The main aim of the workshop was to discuss the existing gaps and advances in the field of psychological mental health research and treatments in Europe, with separate analyses both for research and practice. The invited experts provided their important contribution to making the workshop a fruitful event. The agenda of the meeting is available here.