Process-oriented individualized network based therapy (POINT!)

The medical illness model has driven psychotherapy research and practice into a dead end. POINT integrates complex network theory and the assumptions of process-based therapy into a new framework for mental disorders that facilitates individualized assessment and personalized psychotherapy.

Two successive studies are planned: The first study comprises POINT assessment collecting real-time data for an individual dynamic and functional network analysis with mobile devices. It aims to test whether interactive assessment is feasible as diagnostic tool for a functional analysis of behavior and to detect dysfunctional patterns. The second study is POINT applied, an exploratory psychotherapy study. Treatment modules are selected and implemented individually based on the results of the interactive assessment. The major goals are testing feasibility and effectiveness of individualized therapy.