Unit 26: Mental Health
Date: 11/01/2022
- Leader:
- Heike Hölling
- Deputy:
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Dr.
Caroline Cohrdes
Dr. Ulfert Hapke
Tasks
The main content-related topics therefore cover the following fields:
- Disease burden: epidemiology of frequent mental disorders with high public health relevance; with a focus on depression, anxiety disorders, sleeping disorders, and alcohol abuse and dependency in adults, and on mental disorders and illnesses, ADHD and eating disorders in children and adolescents.
- Psychological determinants: development and performance capabilities, resilience, self-efficacy and motivation.
- Contextual influences: in the case of children and adolescents - parental stress and psychopathology, day care for children. Chronic stress, work pressure and burdens and opportunities in later life for adults. Social attitudes to and assessments of mental disorders and stigmatisation.
- Quality of life, wellbeing and life satisfaction in the context of physical and mental health.
- Psychometrics and specific methods of diagnosis and tools for collecting data on mental health in epidemiological studies.