Majorspezifische Literatur Health & Interventions

• Gaab, J., Blease, C., Locher, C., & Gerger, H. (2016). Go open: A plea for transparency in psychotherapy. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice, 3(2), 175–198. https://doi.org/10.1037/cns0000063
• Ho, E. K. Y., Chen, L., Simic, M., Ashton-James, C. E., Comachio, J., Wang, D. X. M., Hayden, J. A., Loureiro Ferreira, M., & Ferreira, P. H. (2022). Psychological interventions for chronic, non-specific low back pain: Systematic review with network meta-analysis. BMJ, 376, e067718. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2021-067718
• Lösel, F. (2018). Evidence comes by replication, but needs differentiation: The reproducibility issue in science and its relevance for criminology. Journal of Experimental Criminology, 14(3), 257–278. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11292-017-9297-z
• Marx, W., Penninx, B. W., Solmi, M., Furukawa, T. A., Firth, J., Carvalho, A. F., & Berk, M. (2023). Major depressive disorder. Nature Reviews Disease Primers, 9(1), 44. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41572-023-00454-1
• Rief, W., Hofmann, S. G., Berg, M., Forbes, M. K., Pizzagalli, D. A., Zimmermann, J., Fried, E., & Reed, G. M. (2023). Do we need a novel framework for classifying psychopathology? A discussion paper. Clinical Psychology in Europe, 5(4), e11699. https://doi.org/10.32872/cpe.11699
• Torous, J., Linardon, J., Goldberg, S. B., Sun, S., Bell, I., Nicholas, J., Hassan, L., Hua, Y., Milton, A., & Firth, J. (2025). The evolving field of digital mental health: Current evidence and implementation issues for smartphone apps, generative artificial intelligence, and virtual reality. World Psychiatry, 24(2), 156–174. https://doi.org/10.1002/wps.21299
• Wolf, A. & Calabrese, P. (2020). Stressmedizin und Stresspsychologie (pp. 49–119). Schattauer.
• Yarkoni, T., & Westfall, J. (2017). Choosing prediction over explanation in psychology: Lessons from machine learning. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 12(6), 1100–1122. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691617693393

Prüfungsliteratur der prüfungsberechtigten Personen (alphabetisch)

PD Dr. Dorothée Bentz

• Cuijpers, P., Harrer, M., & Furukawa, T. A. (2026). Innovations to improve outcomes and uptake of psychotherapies for mental disorders: A state‐of‐the‐art review. World Psychiatry, 25(1), 4–33. https://doi.org/10.1002/wps.70002
• Flake, J. K., & Fried, E. I. (2020). Measurement Schmeasurement: Questionable Measurement Practices and How to Avoid Them. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 3(4), 456–465. https://doi.org/10.1177/2515245920952393
• Gold, S. M., Enck, P., Hasselmann, H., Friede, T., Hegerl, U., Mohr, D. C., & Otte, C. (2017). Control conditions for randomised trials of behavioural interventions in psychiatry: A decision framework. The Lancet Psychiatry, 4(9), 725–732. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366(17)30153-0
• Taschereau-Dumouchel, V., Michel, M., Lau, H., Hofmann, S. G., & LeDoux, J. E. (2022). Putting the “mental” back in “mental disorders”: A perspective from research on fear and anxiety. Molecular Psychiatry, 27(3), 1322–1330. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-021-01395-5

Prof. Dr. Pasquale Calabrese

• Murphy, R., O’Donoghue, S., Counihan, T., McDonald, C., Calabresi, P.A., Ahmed, M., Kaplin, A., & Hallahan, B. (2017). Neuropsychiatric syndromes of multiple sclerosis. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 88(8), 697–708. https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp-2016-315367
• Wohleb, E.S., Franklin, T., Iwata, M., & Duman, R.S. (2016). Integrating neuroimmune systems in the neurobiology of depression. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 17, 497–511. https://doi.org/10.1038/nrn.2016.69
• Slavic, G.M., & Irwin, M.R. (2014). From stress to inflammation and major depressive disorder: A social signal transduction theory of depression. Psychological Bulletin,140(3), 774–815. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0035302
• Chan, A., Ouyang, J., Nguyen, K., Jones, A., Basso, S., & Karasik, R. (2024). Traumatic brain injuries: A neuropsychological review. Frontiers Behavioral Neuroscience, 18, 1326115. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2024.1326115 

Prof. Dr. Jens Gaab
 

• Wampold, B.E., & Flückiger, C. (2023). The alliance in mental health care: Conceptualization, evidence and clinical applications. World Psychiatry. 22(1), 25–41. https://doi.org/10.1002/wps.21035
• Barkham, M., Saxon, D., Hardy, G. E., Bradburn, M., Galloway, D., Wickramasekera, N., Keetharuth, A. D., Bower, P., King, M., Elliott, R., Gabriel, L., Kellett, S., Shaw, S., Wilkinson, T., Connell, J., Harrison, P., Ardern, K., Bishop-Edwards, L., Ashley, K., … Brazier, J. E. (2021). Person-centred experiential therapy versus cognitive behavioural therapy delivered in the English Improving Access to Psychological Therapies service for the treatment of moderate or severe depression (PRaCTICED): A pragmatic, randomised, non-inferiority trial. The Lancet Psychiatry, 8(6), 487–499. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366(21)00083-3
• Stone, M. B., Yaseen, Z. S., Miller, B. J., Richardville, K., Kalaria, S. N., & Kirsch, I. (2022). Response to acute monotherapy for major depressive disorder in randomized, placebo controlled trials submitted to the US Food and Drug Administration: Individual participant data analysis. BMJ, 378, e067606. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2021-067606
• Beutel, M. E., Greenberg, L., Lane, R. D., & Subic-Wrana, C. (2019). Treating anxiety disorders by emotion-focused psychodynamic psychotherapy (EFPP)—An integrative, transdiagnostic approach. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, 26(1), 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpp.2325 

Prof. Dr. Rainer Greifeneder

• Seery, M. D., & Quinton, W. J. (2016). Understanding resilience: From negative life events to everyday stressors. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 54, 181–245. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.aesp.2016.02.002
• Douglas, K. M., Uscinski, J. E., Sutton, R. M., Cichocka, A., Nefes, T., Ang, C. S., & Deravi, F. (2019). Understanding conspiracy theories. Political Psychology, 40, 3–35. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12568
• Malle, B. F. (2022). Attribution theories. In D. Chadee (Ed.), Theories in social psychology (2nd ed., pp. 93–119). https://doi.org/10.1002/9781394266616.ch4
• Qualter, P., Vanhalst, J., Harris, R., Van Roekel, E., Lodder, G., Bangee, M., Maes, M., & Verhagen, M. (2015). Loneliness across the life span. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 10, 250–264. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691615568999

Prof. Dr. Mirka Henninger

• Schmalz, X., Biurrun Manresa, J., & Zhang, L. (2023). What is a Bayes factor? Psychological Methods, 28(3), 705–718. https://doi.org/10.1037/met0000421
• Strobl, C., Malley, J., & Tutz, G. (2009). An introduction to recursive partitioning: Rationale, application, and characteristics of classification and regression trees, bagging, and random forests. Psychological Methods, 14(4), 323–348. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0016973
• McCormick, E. M., Byrne, M. L., Flournoy, J. C., Mills, K. L., & Pfeifer, J. H. (2023). The Hitchhiker’s guide to longitudinal models: A primer on model selection for repeated-measures methods. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 63, 101281. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2023.101281
• Rubin, M. (2021). When to adjust alpha during multiple testing: A consideration of disjunction, conjunction, and individual testing. Synthese, 199(3), 10969–11000. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-021-03276-4

Prof. Dr. Roselind Lieb
 

• McGrath, J. J., Al-Hamzawi, A., Alonso, J., Altwaijri, Y., Andrade, L. H., Bromet, E. J., Bruffaerts, R., Caldas de Almeida, J. M., Chardoul, S., Chiu, W. T., Degenhardt, L., Demler, O. V., Ferry, F., Gureje, O., Haro, J. M., Karam, E. G., Karam, G., Khaled, S. M., … Zaslavsky, A. M. (2023). Age of onset and cumulative risk of mental disorders: A cross-national analysis of population surveys from 29 countries. The Lancet Psychiatry, 10(9), 668–681. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366(23)00193-1
• Meehan, A. J., Lewis, S. J., Fazel, S., Fusar-Poli, P., Steyerberg, E. W., Stahl, D., & Danese, A. (2022). Clinical prediction models in psychiatry: A systematic review of two decades of progress and challenges. Molecular Psychiatry, 27, 2700–2708. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-022-01528-4
• Miché, M., Strippoli, M.-P., Preisig, M., & Lieb, R. (2024). Evaluating the clinical utility of an easily applicable prediction model of suicide attempts, newly developed and validated with a general community sample of adults. BMC Psychiatry, 24, 217. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-024-05647-w
• Massell, J., Preisig, M., Miché, M., Strippoli, M.-P., Pistis, G., & Lieb, R. (2025). Prospective prediction of first onset major depressive disorder in midlife using machine learning. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 60, 2387–2400. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-025-02942-z

PD Dr. Cosima Locher

• Löwe, B., Toussaint, A., Rosmalen, J. G. M., Huang, W.-L., Burton, C., Weigel, A., Levenson, J. L., & Henningsen, P. (2024). Persistent physical symptoms: Definition, genesis, and management. The Lancet, 403(10444), 2649–2662. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(24)00623-8
• Locher, C., Kossowsky, J., Koechlin, H., Lam, T. L., Barthel, J., Berde, C. B., … Meissner, K. (2020). Efficacy, safety, and acceptability of pharmacologic treatments for pediatric migraine prophylaxis: A systematic review and network meta-analysis. JAMA Pediatrics, 174(4), 341–349. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapediatrics.2019.5856
• Peerdeman, K. J., van Laarhoven, A. I., Keij, S. M., Vase, L., Rovers, M. M., Peters, M. L., & Evers, A. W. (2016). Relieving patients' pain with expectation interventions: A meta-analysis. Pain, 157(6), 1179–1191. https://doi.org/10.1097/j.pain.0000000000000540
• Barke, A., Koechlin, H., Korwisi, B., & Locher, C. (2020). Emotional distress: Specifying a neglected part of chronic pain. European Journal of Pain, 24(3), 477–480. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejp.1525 

Prof. Dr. Rui Mata

• Franconeri, S. L., Padilla, L. M., Shah, P. D., Zacks, J. M., & Hullman, J. (2021). The science of visual data communication: What works. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 22(3), 110–161. https://doi.org/10.1177/15291006211051956
• Gigerenzer, G., Gaissmaier, W., Kurz-Milcke, E., Schwartz, L. M., & Woloshin, S. (2007). Helping doctors and patients make sense of health statistics. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 8(2), 53–96. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1539-6053.2008.00033.x
• Kozyreva, A., Lewandowsky, S., & Hertwig, R. (2020). Citizens versus the Internet: Confronting digital challenges with cognitive tools. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 21(3), 103–156. https://doi.org/10.1177/1529100620946707
• Wulff, D. U., & Mata, R. (2025). Escaping the jingle-jangle jungle: Increasing conceptual clarity in psychology using large language models. Current Directions in Psychological Science. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/09637214251382083

Prof. Dr. Ines Mürner-Lavanchy

• Urben, S., Ochoa Williams, A., Ben Jemia, C., Rosselet Amoussou, J., Machado Lazaro, S., Giovannini, J., Abi Kheir, M., Kaess, M., Plessen, K. J., & Mürner-Lavanchy, I. (2024). Understanding irritability through the lens of self-regulatory control processes in children and adolescents: A systematic review. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. 34, 1497–1509. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-024-02591-8
• Mürner-Lavanchy, I., Koenig, J., Reichl, C., Josi, J., Cavelti, M., & Kaess, M. (2024). The quest for a biological phenotype of adolescent non-suicidal self-injury: A machine-learning approach. Translational Psychiatry, 14(1), Article 56. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-024-02776-4
• Silver, J., Mackin, D. M., Bufferd, S. J., Dougherty, L. R., Goldstein, B. L., Carlson, G. A., & Klein, D. N. (2023). Tonic and phasic irritability in 6-year-old children: Differential correlates and outcomes. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 64(2), 234–243. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13688
• Myin-Germeys, I., Kasanova, Z., Vaessen, T., Vachon, H., Kirtley, O., Viechtbauer, W., & Reininghaus, U. (2018). Experience sampling methodology in mental health research: New insights and technical developments. World Psychiatry, 17(2), 123–132. https://doi.org/10.1002/wps.20513

PD Dr. Myriam Thoma

• Huerzeler, H. E., Boss, P., & Thoma, M. V. (2025). Addressing the heterogeneity of resilience scales: A systematic review and development of a unified resilience construct within a standardized resilience framework. The Journal of Positive Psychology, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439760.2025.2574049
• Thoma, M. V., Salas Castillo, A. N., & Maercker, A. (2023). Psychotherapy for elderly patients. Psychotherapie, Psychosomatik, Medizinische Psychologie, 73(12), 516–528. https://doi.org/10.1055/a-1993-9570
• Thoma, M. V., Rohleder, N., & Rohner, S. L. (2021). Clinical ecopsychology: The mental health impacts and underlying pathways of the climate and environmental crisis. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12, 757. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.675936
• Ehring, T., & Kunze, A. (2021). Posttraumatische Belastungsstörung. In Klinische Psychologie & Psychotherapie (pp. 1159–1182). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.

Prof. Dr. Jelena Zumbach-Basu

• De Ruiter, C., Burghart, M., De Silva, R., Griesbeck Garcia, S., Mian, U., Walshe, E., & Zouharova, V. (2022). A meta-analysis of childhood maltreatment in relation to psychopathic traits. PLoS One, 17(8), e0272704. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0272704
• Koehler, J., & Lösel, F. (2025). A meta-evaluative synthesis of the effects of custodial and community-based offender rehabilitation. European Journal of Criminology, 22(1), 3–29. https://doi.org/10.1177/14773708241256501
• Milner, J. S., Crouch, J. L., McCarthy, R. J., Ammar, J., Dominguez-Martinez, R., Thomas, C. L., & Jensen, A. P. (2022). Child physical abuse risk factors: A systematic review and a meta-analysis. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 66, 1–29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avb.2022.101778
• Volbert, R., & Zumbach, J. (2024). Straf- und familienrechtliche Begutachtung. In T. Teismann, A. Wannemüller, K. von Sydow, S. Taubner, & P. Thoma (Eds.), Master Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie: Ein Lehr- und Lernbuch (pp. 850–866). Hogrefe.