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Beschreibung: Developing the writing exercise component of an ecological momentary intervention (EMI) for bereavement involves creating brief, structured prompts that encourage reflection on the loss experience and emotional expression in real time. Delivered through mobile devices, these exercises can help individuals articulate thoughts and feelings related to grief, identify patterns in their coping, and explore themes of meaning, connection, and adjustment. Writing tasks can be personalized to the user?s current emotional state or daily context, fostering self-awareness and promoting adaptive processing of loss. Integrated within an EMI, such exercises offer an accessible and flexible tool for supporting grief adaptation in everyday life.
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Zeitrahmen: FS2026
Eingabedatum: 10.11.2025
Kontakt: Ayala Licht, E-Mail

Beschreibung: Developing the psychoeducation component of an ecological momentary intervention (EMI) for bereavement involves providing brief, evidence-based information that helps individuals understand the emotional, cognitive, and physical aspects of grief in real time. Delivered via mobile devices, psychoeducational content can normalize grief reactions, clarify the difference between adaptive and prolonged grief responses, and introduce coping strategies tailored to the user?s current context. By integrating psychoeducation into an EMI, individuals can receive timely, personalized guidance that supports reflection, emotional regulation, and adaptive adjustment to loss in their daily lives.
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Zeitrahmen: FS2026
Eingabedatum: 10.11.2025
Kontakt: Ayala Licht, E-Mail

Beschreibung: Support for data collection, recruitment and preliminary analysis of EMA data in bereaved individuals
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Zeitrahmen: HS2025
Eingabedatum: 05.03.2025
Kontakt: Prof Dr Clare Killikelly, Pelin Gelmez, E-Mail

Beschreibung: A small pilot study exploring the acceptability and usability of a text message service for bereavement. Possibility to adapt to special groups. Only available from HS2025
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Zeitrahmen: HS2025
Eingabedatum: 09.12.2024
Kontakt: Prof Dr Clare Killikelly, E-Mail

Beschreibung: A comparative study investigating cultural differences in emotion regulation among German-speaking and Chinese bereaved.
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Zeitrahmen: FS2025
Eingabedatum: 07.01.2025
Kontakt: Eva Stelzer, E-Mail

Beschreibung: In collaboration with the University of Bern and the Swiss Red cross the existing SUI intervention for grief in refugees will be adapted to include modules on ambiguous loss
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Zeitrahmen: FS 2025
Eingabedatum: 09.12.2024
Kontakt: Prof Dr Clare Killikelly, E-Mail

Beschreibung: The connection between the psyche and the body, as in the treatment of psychosomatic illnesses, has been a central theme since the development of psychotherapy. In recent years, there has been a clear focus on and expansion of body therapy interventions. Mindfulness-based psychotherapies, yoga and many other body-centered forms of psychotherapy in the sense of "embodiment" are being used more and more frequently by all psychotherapeutic clusters. The Idiopraxie® method fits into this developing field. It aims to promote physical self-awareness and self-regulation through intentional self-touch. This Master's thesis will adapt a new Idiopraxie intervention for grief and trauma.
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Zeitrahmen: HS24-HS25
Eingabedatum: 08.07.2024
Kontakt: Prof Dr Clare Killikelly, E-Mail

Beschreibung: This project will use experience sampling methodology (ESM) to give longitudinal, fine-grained data on the sequelae of psychological disorder after bereavement. Participants will complete two weeks of experience momentary sampling (ESM) two times a day with a novel mobile app (mGAGE) every 3 months for 18 months. This will yield six waves of data collection. 200 participants will be recruited from the established bereavement recruitment networks currently active in Switzerland. A mixture of longitudinal and fine-grained data analysis will be conducted, for example linear regression, structural equation modelling and predictive modelling on the 6 waves of daily PGD, MDD and PTSD symptom data. In our post-pandemic society, evidence-based clinical guidance on the course, etiology and risk factors after bereavement are urgently needed. Systematic, large-scale, robust data on the psychological sequelae following bereavement will provide desperately needed evidence on how and when PGD develops, who is at risk of developing the disorder, and how the symptoms unfold. This is essential information that researchers and clinicians are missing. The development of guidelines for treatment and prevention can only be effective when we know when and how PGD develops.
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Zeitrahmen: HS24-HS25
Eingabedatum: 08.07.2024
Kontakt: Prof Dr Clare Killikelly, E-Mail

Beschreibung: About 10% of bereaved people experience persistent distressing and disabling grief (Bonanno et al., 2011). These numbers are significantly and critically higher in displaced persons (DP). The socio-cultural context of post-migration and resettlement may provide an environment that may hinder or help recovery from conflict-related bereavement and loss (Schick et al., 2018). Post-migration stressors such as loss of social networks, isolation, unemployment, poverty, discrimination, lack of basic resources and safety are found to have a significant effect on mental health (Miller & Rasmussen, 2017). In response to the refugee crisis North American and European countries have different migration policies and hold different positions on refugee resettlement. Several studies have confirmed that refugees? experience in the host country can significantly impact mental health outcomes This project will explore the introduction of a new mental health disorder, prolonged grief disorder (PGD), to a culturally diverse group of migrants. We aim to use participatory action research methods to develop collaborative partnerships with target groups, develop research questions, conduct the research study, analyze the data and report the results. Our aim is to examine possible differences in grief experiences between the experiences of migrants to Canada, Germany and the Netherlands
Anzahl Arbeiten für dieses Thema: 1
Zeitrahmen: HS24-HS25
Eingabedatum: 08.07.2024
Kontakt: Prof Dr Clare Killikelly, E-Mail

Beschreibung: The Ukraine-Russian war brings unprecedented challenges to the European political and health systems. Besides members of the armed forces, millions of Ukraine citizens, both within Ukraine and in neighboring countries carry the burden of having faced military threat and uncertainty, either personally or to loved ones. Besides the thousands of fatalities and injuries, the wide-ranging air born attacks of the Russian army have exposed high numbers of civilians to frequent, unpredictable and long-term terror (Stieger et al., 2023) far behind the front. The present study aims to develop an online self-guided platform to foster recovery. Our training will address putative vulnerability/resilience factors in the domain of emotion regulation ? mainly reappraisal, self-compassion and acceptance. Complementing these mainly cognitive approaches, the training will feature health behaviors, particularly sleep, physical activity and healthy eating&drinking. There will be a particular focus on supporting Ukrainian men and combat survivors.
Anzahl Arbeiten für dieses Thema: 1
Zeitrahmen: HS24-HS25
Eingabedatum: 08.07.2024
Kontakt: Prof Dr Clare Killikelly, E-Mail