University Hospital of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy

Zentralgebäude der UPD

As a leading institution in Switzerland, the University Hospital of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy provides outpatient, day-patient, and inpatient psychiatric care as well as emergency care for all children and adolescents in the area it serves. As a university hospital, it has an extended mandate in supra-regional specialized care as well as in education and research.

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Profile

  • Investigating mental health disorders with an onset during childhood and adolescence up to emerging adulthood

  • Focus on: e-mental health, innovative treatment development, neurobiological mechanisms, early precursors, sleep, psychotherapy research
  • Teaching students of Medicine and Psychology at all educational levels

External Partners

Institute of Psychology, University of Bern, Switzerland; Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychiatric Clinics of the University of Basel, Switzerland; Department of Economics, University of Zurich, Switzerland; Developmental Clinical Psychology Research Unit, University of Geneva, Switzerland; Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV), Switzerland; Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Centre for Psychotherapy Research, Heidelberg University, Germany; Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, University of Cologne, Germany; University Hospital of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Medical University of Vienna, Austria; Orygen, Melbourne, Australia; School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; Upstate Medical University, USA; Department of Psychology, University of Oregon, USA; School of Psychology, University of Sussex, UK; Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Grants

  • SNSF Project Grant (184943): Sleep Neurophysiology: A Window onto Adolescent Mental Health (ongoing; PI: Prof. Tarokh)
  • SNSF Project Grant (197714): Course and burden of risk symptoms and criteria of psychosis in the community: 5- to 10-year follow-up of the Bern Epidemiological At-Risk (BEAR) and the Bi-national Evaluation of At-Risk Symptoms in children and adolescents (BEARS-Kid) studies (ongoing; PI: PD Dr. Michel)
  • SNSF Ambizione/Flexibility Grant (193279/2): A smartphone-based ecological momentary assessment and intervention for adolescents with auditory verbal hallucinations (ongoing; PI: PD Dr. Cavelti)
  • SNSF Project Grant (192623): Aberrant local brain oscillations and cortical connectivity in the prodromal state and early psychosis – a TMS-EEG study (ongoing; PI: Prof. Kindler, PD Dr. med. Morishima)
  • Ebnet-Stiftung: A smartphone-based ecological momentary assessment and intervention for adolescents with auditory verbal hallucinations (ongoing; PI: PD Dr. Cavelti)
  • UPD Stiftung / Burgergemeinde Bern: Establishing a young people advisory group and a parent advisory group for the research department of the University Hospital for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and psychotherapy in Bern (ongoing; PI: PD Dr. Cavelti)
  • SNSF Starting Grant/Flexibility Grant (211709): The emergence of self-harm in the first decades of life: a biopsychosocial perspective on developmental dynamics, risk and protective factors (ongoing; PI: Prof. Steinhoff)
  • SNSF Project Grant (232067): Exploring the Dreamscape: The Impact of Antidepressants on Dream Neurophysiology and Content (granted; PI: Prof. Tarokh)
  • Projektpool Universität Bern: Netzwerkanalyse: ein statistisches Werkzeug zur Erfassung psychischer Störungen bei Kindern und Jugendlichen (01/2024; Prof. Mürner-Lavanchy)
  • SNSF IICT – PPI Preparatory Grant (33IC30_229857/1): AdoASSIP -Building Evidence in adolescent Suicide prevention and Treatment (BEST) (01.07.-31.10.2024; Prof. Kaess)
  • Talent4Bern: Faculty of Medicine of the University of Bern (ongoing, PI: Prof. Steinhoff)