My research focuses on prevention of mental illness in children, adolescents and parents using digital technology methods. In recent years I have been intensively involved in the development of a mobile application for the prevention of mental disorders and improvement of emotional competence and technical possibility in psychology. More specifically, together with computer scientists, but also the target group themselves, I developed mobile applications for adolescents, high-risk groups as the offspring of parents with psychiatric disorders and (expectant) parents with psychosocial burden. In longterm prospective randomised controlled trials I evaluated the efficacy of such interventions regarding acceptance, psychopathology and mental well-being in the respective target group. 

Currently, I’m conducting more intensively studies focusing on the real-time assessment and feedback of every-day stressors and psychopathology parameters, including wearables, biochemical parameters and emotion recognition via affective computing. I’m interested in monitoring the processes of behavioural changes and using technical solutions to enhance prevention but also psychotherapy outcomes.