Teaching

I conduct(ed) several seminars at the B.Sc. and M.Sc. level in Clinical Psychology and Health Psychology (please see below for a full list of my seminars). In my teaching I am covering the following topics:

  • Health behavior change & interventions
    • Social-cognitive (e.g., Reasoned Action Approach, Social-Cognitive Theory), motivational (e.g., Self-Determination Theory) & practice-oriented (e.g., COM-B Model, Behavior Change Wheel) health behavior theories/models
    • Health behavior change & maintenance
    • Micro- (interventions addressed to individuals), macro- (e.g., family and dyadic interventions) and meso-level (e.g., policy interventions) interventions
  • Obesity
    • Etiology, prevention & therapy
    • Bodyweight regulation
    • Physical and psychological consequences (including stigmatization)
  • Biological and psychological mechanisms of the health behavior — health relationship
  • Prevention of mental disorders (e.g., depression, suicide, alcohol dependence)

Seminar overview

2025

  • Medical foundations of psychotherapy: Health, prevention, and rehabiliation (Level: B.Sc.), University of Mannheim

2024

  • Medical foundations of psychotherapy: Health, prevention, and rehabiliation (Level: B.Sc.), University of Mannheim

2023

  • Medical foundations of psychotherapy: Health, prevention, and rehabiliation (Level: B.Sc.), University of Mannheim

2022

  • Project seminar (Level: M.Sc.), University of Mannheim
  • Health behavior interventions – Theory and practice (Level: M.Sc.), University of Mannheim

2021

  • Health behavior and mental disorders: Obesity (Level: M.Sc.), University of Mannheim
  • Health behavior interventions – Theory and practice (Level: M.Sc.), University of Mannheim

2020

  • Health behavior and mental disorders: Obesity (Level: M.Sc.), University of Mannheim
  • Health behavior interventions – Theory and practice (Level: M.Sc.), University of Mannheim

2019

  • Prevention of psychological disorders and health promotion (Level: B.Sc.), University of Mannheim
  • Project seminar (Level: M.Sc.), University of Mannheim
  • Health behavior interventions – Theory and practice (Level: M.Sc.), University of Mannheim

2018

  • Prevention of psychological disorders and health promotion (Level: B.Sc.), University of Mannheim
  • Biological mechanisms of health behaviors (Level: B.Sc.), University of Mannheim

2017

  • Prevention of psychological disorders and health promotion (Level: B.Sc.), University of Mannheim