Bertsch Lab - Uni Wuerzburg

🗣️An important step toward more accessible, evidence-based symptom assessment – and toward helping individuals with obsessive–compulsive symptoms find the right help more quickly.

✅Both demonstrate robust psychometric properties in clinical and non-clinical samples and can help support informed decision-making, for example, whether more in-depth diagnostic procedures might be appropriate.

💡The OCI-12 and the ultra-short OCI-4 are cost- and time-efficient, easy-to-administer, and reliable instrument assessing the severity of obsessive–compulsive symptoms.

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🔎 Structured, time-efficient & reliable assessment of OCD symptoms? 🧠
@celinalianemueller.bsky.social & colleagues recently published the
📗 12-item Obsessive–Compulsive Inventory (OCI-12; tinyurl.com/oci-12)
&
📘 the ultra-short 4-item version (OCI-4; tinyurl.com/oci-4-screener).

🗣️Ein wichtiger Schritt hin zu zugänglicher, evidenzbasierter Symptomerfassung – und dazu, dass Menschen mit Zwangssymptomen schneller den Weg zu passender Hilfe finden können.

✅ Beide zeigen robuste psychometrische Eigenschaften in klinischen und nicht-klinischen Stichproben und können dabei unterstützen, informierte Entscheidungen zu treffen – etwa ob vertiefende Gespräche oder weiterführende diagnostische Verfahren sinnvoll wären.

💡Das OCI-12 und OCI-4 bieten niedrigschwellige, schnell durchzuführende und verlässliche Möglichkeiten, einen ersten strukturierten Überblick über mögliche Zwangssymptome zu gewinnen.

🔎Zwangssymptome strukturiert, gut und schnell erfassen?🧠
Dafür haben @celinalianemueller.bsky.social & Kolleg:innen
📗 das 12-Item Zwangsinventar (OCI-12; tinyurl.com/oci-12)
&
📘 das ultra-kurze 4-Item Zwangsinventar (OCI-4; tinyurl.com/oci-4-screener)
auf deutsch übersetzt & frei verfügbar gemacht.

🎉🎉🎉

✨✨✨(📸Heiko Becker)

Unibund Festkonzert Am 13.11.2025 findet das traditionelle Festkonzert des Universitätsbundes in der Neubaukirche statt. Das Akademische Orchester sorgt für eine Weltpremiere und es werden Preise in Höhe von 268.000 Euro...

Celebrations are happening tonight! 🥂
www.uni-wuerzburg.de/unibund/aktu...

Congrats to Katja and Andrea!🎉 Their project on mental health and social integration, which aims to advance treatment options for adolescents and young adults with social deficits, has earned a research award from the Vogel Stiftung!🏆👏 @kabertsch.bsky.social @anrei.bsky.social

We're sooo proud and happy to share that our colleage Johanna Popp was awarded the NeuroImage Editor's Choice Award.
Learn more about Johanna and the paper, which is part of her PhD project: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/neur...
The paper is linked there, too.
Congrats, @johannapopp.bsky.social ! 🎊🎊

Another great opportunity to join our group!💼🙌 We're looking for an Akademische Rätin/Akademischer Rat (A13) auf Zeit!

11 days left to apply!💼⏰ Spread the word 📣

📅 November 26th: Study Day on Anger at the Faculty of Catholic Theology. More information 👉 www.theologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/fileadmin/01...

Our Würtual Reality Conference is underway!🙌👓🤩
@isabelneumann.bsky.social @sabrinagado.bsky.social

Productive team retreat yesterday!🙌🏼 We shared research progress, explored collaboration opportunities, and discussed future directions! We ended the day with a little journey through the history of psychology at the „Gelehrtenzimmer“ - and even got to see Hermann Ebbinghaus’s original desk! 🧠✨

✨ Borderline Personality Disorder Awareness Week ✨

We join the global community in raising awareness of #BPD 💙

🎓#ESSPD#ESSPDCongress2026

We're further expanding our team!💼 An Akademische Rätin/Akademischer Rat (A13) position is now open in our group - check out the details below and feel free to share!🙌 #ClinicalPsychology #JobOpening

Come join our team!💼A new PhD position is available in our group, focusing on emotional biases and socioemotional competencies in depression. Feel free to share!😃
#PhDPosition #ClinicalPsychology #JobOpening

Last PhD Seminar of the Semester ✨✨

Day ✌🏼📸
#PuG2025
@menghuanchen.bsky.social
@johannapopp.bsky.social
@Kirsten Hilger

🙌🏼🙌🏼

First round of posters!✨🖼️✨
#PuG2025
@celinalianemueller.bsky.social
@isabelneumann.bsky.social
@Lina Mitkov
@Linda Wilkin-Krug

#PuG2025 is now underway! We‘re looking forward to an interesting program with exciting contributions from our group!

We’re excited to share our progress, research updates and a look behind the scenes of our work – stay tuned!

This is our research group at the University of Wuerzburg:

www.psychologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/bioklin/

With a translational perspective, our research spans a range of topics - from social interaction processes and aggression to approach/avoidance behavior, and psychotherapy mechanisms.

We are dedicated to investigating processes that promote mental health and contribute to the success of psychotherapeutic interventions.