📢🫵We are hiring! Looking for a PhD position? You are: _interested in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry & Psychology _interested in digital mental health _a licensed Clinical Psychologist in Austria Apply until 31 July 24 meduniwien.ac.at/web/karriere/o…

📢Check out the newest research led by Diana Klinger about mental health, media consumption and gender diverse youth. These results are from the Mental Health Days Study 2024. capmh.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Great talk by Diana Klinger about Gender Dysphoria & Mental Health in Rostock at the #dgkjp2024.

🥳🏅Very proud of SCAR-Unit PhD students Sarah Macura and Bettina Pfeffer for receiving the Austrian Academy of Sciences DOC Fellowship! We are excited about their upcoming projects at MedUni Wien, which aim to deepen our understanding of #PTSD and #NSSI and to promote adolescents' mental health.

📢 New publication by Andi Goreis et al: Negative social media events increase stress, negative affect, and NSSI urges more than real-life events in at-risk adolescents. bpded.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

📢 New study by Sofia Oehlke et al. on LongCOVID & mental health: Patients with LongCOVID show a high risk of post-traumatic stress + reduced mental health. Additional trauma-focused interventions are strongly recommended. #COVID19 #MentalHealth link.springer.com/article/10.100…

🥳🤩2 Awards for SCAR-Unit members in February! Andi Goreis has received the Rudolf-Quatember Award, and Sofia Oehlke has been awarded as "Psychological Young Scientist of the Year 2024". Congratulations, we are incredibly proud! meduniwien.ac.at/web/ueber-uns/…

📢 New RCT is now published! In this work we compared Virtual Reality vs. 2D biofeedback for stress-associated disorders in adolescents. Conclusion: Comparable results, but added benefit of VR remains uncertain, considering other physiological signals. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

New study about therapeutic VR out now! 🚀 What’s holding therapists back the most? Despite its potential, many clinical psychologists & psychotherapists hesitate to adopt VR due to knowledge gaps, financial constraints & lack of motivation. frontiersin.org/journals/psych…

🥳Andi Goreis is researcher of the month april 2025 - see the video and learn about his research 👇 meduniwien.ac.at/web/forschung/…

🥳Diana Klinger received the Veronika-Fialka-Moser Diversity Award for Research. Check out her research about mental health of transgender and gender diverse youth 👇 meduniwien.ac.at/web/ueber-uns/…