The Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy examines the etiology, course, diagnostics, epidemiology and treatment of mental disorders as well as psychological aspects of somatic diseases. The department's main foci are on the development and evaluation of technology-based psychological diagnostic and intervention approaches for people with mental disorders and somatic diseases, depression and anxiety disorder research as well as research on psychological aspects of somatic diseases (psycho-diabetology, psycho-cardiology, psycho-oncology, psychological pain research).