Dear students, you are welcome to apply for a Bachelor’s or Master’s thesis in the department at the corresponding deadlines.

The specific topics will be developed collaboratively with the responsible supervisor.

Possible subject areas are:

Personalized psychotherapy

• Prediction of psychotherapy processes, outcomes, and drop-out
• Are some patients more predictable than others?
• Ecological momentary assessment and personalized interventions in subclinical samples
• Identification of typical patient profiles, which may be used for prediction
• Do similar patients respond similarly to psychotherapy?

Therapist effects

• Why are some therapists more effective than others?
• Heart rate variability in therapists

Mechanisms and processes of change

• Which processes change during successful psychotherapy?
• Examples of mechanisms/processes: therapeutic relationship/alliance, emotion regulation strategies, dysfunctional cognitions, interpersonal patterns

Measurement of change and therapeutic processes

• How can psychotherapeutic change be measured?
• Individualized vs. standardized measurement
• Direct vs. indirect measurement of change

Meta-analysis on various topics

You are welcome to conduct a meta-analysis on a topic of your choosing at any time. Working in a team of 2 people to conduct a meta-analysis is prefereable and recommended.

How does the application process work?

* Students in the clinical psychology specialization (see e-mail bulletin):

Please note the respective deadlines!

Please send your electronic application with a short curriculum vitae (including details of your high school degree), a copy of your BSc-transcripts, a FlexNow printout of your previous achievements in the psychology MSc, and a brief indication of your ranked preferences with regards to the subject area to (klinpsych@psychol.uni-giessen.de)

Applications with 1^st priority for the Rubel department should include:

• Short letter of motivation (as part of the e-mail, no need for a separate file attachment)
• Short curriculum vitae (including information details about high school diploma and/or final grades)
• BSc-transcript
• 1^st semester MSc-transcript (FlexNow screenshot is sufficient)
• Brief indication of the topic(s) of interest

Note for students not focusing in clinical psychology:

3-4 Master’s theses will be available for students not focusing in clinical psychology.

Please send your application (curriculum vitae, short letter of motivation, FlexNow printout, psychology BSc-transcript, preferred topic(s) of interest) electronically directly to Prof. Rubel

(julian.rubel@psychol.uni-giessen.de).