Research areas

• – Psychotherapy research - Efficacy; Mechanisms and indicators of change
• – Clinical psychology - Resource and problem activation; Attachment style; Personality; Social networks; Cultural dimensions
• – Prevention - Individual interventions in a group setting for psychosocial conflicts
• – Research designs - RCTs; Parallel control studies; Mixed-method approaches
• – Modality - Presence; Online ;Virtual reality (VR); Application-based solutions (app)
• – Implicit methods - Language markers (analysis LIWC); change indicators (CGIs)
• – Explicit methods - Social network diagnostics (SozNet); Experience in social systems (EXIS); Burden assessment scale (BAS); Heidelberg culture questionnaire (HKFB)
• – Rating procedures - Systemic adherence and competence scale (STACS); German version of the assessment of parent-child interaction (APCI)

Methodological and/or psychotherapeutic expertise

• – Psychotherapy research - Efficacy; Mechanisms and indicators of Change
• – Methods - Social networks (SocNet); Experience in social systems (EXIS); Burden of significant others (BAS); Language markers (LIWC); change indicators (SCIs; CGIs)

Short biography

Christina Hunger-Schoppe is Professor of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Witten/Herdecke University, Germany. She is trained in Psychological Psychotherapy (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; Systemic and Family/Couple Therapy). Degree in Psychology (Dipl.-Psych.), University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany (2000-2006); Degree in Psychological and Psychiatric Anthropology (M.Sc.), Brunel University West London, England (2006-2008). Binational doctorate in the German-Chilean Research Training Group, University of Heidelberg, Germany & Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Universidad de Chile (2007-2010). Academic assistant (post-doc), Heidelberg University Hospital (2010-2020). Habilitation in Medical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Heidelberg University Hospital (2018). Member of the Scientific Advisory Board for Psychotherapy (WBP), Board member of the Systemic Society (SG), co-editor of "Familiendynamik".

Relevant publications

• Hunger, C., Hilzinger, R., Klewinghaus, L., Deusser, L., Sander, A., Mander, J., Bents, H., Ditzen, B., & Schweitzer, J. (2020). Comparing cognitive behavioral therapy and integrative systemic psychotherapy for social anxiety disorders: Randomized Controlled Pilot Trial (SOPHO-CBT/ST). Family Process, 59(4), 1389-1406.
• Hunger-Schoppe, C., Evers, O., Baumeister, H., Braus, N., Fendel, J., Hermans, B. E., Meßner, E.-M., Ochs, M., Portenhauser, A., Terhorst, Y., & Schmidt, S. (2025). Entwicklung einer web-basierten Plattform zur formativen und feedback-gestützten Evaluation der ambulanten Routineversorgung Systemischer Psychotherapie (SYSDOK). Zeitschrift für Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie, 54(1), 1–10. doi:10.1026/1616-3443/a000768
• Braus, N., Flückiger, C., Wichmann, J., Frankmann, C., Lang, A., & Hunger-Schoppe, C. (2024). Is symptom outcome the whole Story? – A multilevel meta-analysis of Systemic Therapy for adults including family outcome. Psychotherapy Research. doi:10.31234/osf.io/qk8t3
• Van Bebber, T., Tappe, E.-H., Druyen, T., Kleve, H., Rüsen, T., & Hunger-Schoppe, C. (2025, in print). Efficacy and experience of system constellations in virtual reality (VR): a randomized controlled feasibility study with subsequent intervention. Pilot & Feasibility Studies.
• Hunger-Schoppe, C., Schweitzer, J., Hilzinger, R., Klewinghaus, L., Deußer, L., Sander, A., Bents, H., Mander, J., & Lieb, H. (2022). Integrative systemic and family therapy for social anxiety disorder: Manual and pilot randomized controlled trial. Frontiers in Psychology. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.867246
• Braus, N., Kewitz, S., & Hunger-Schoppe, C. (2022). The Complex Dynamics of Resources and Maintaining Factors in Social Networks for Alcohol-Use Disorders: A Cross-Sectional Study. Frontiers in Psychology, 13. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.804567
• Immel, N., Dagnino, P., Navarro, J., & Hunger-Schoppe, C. (2021). Associations between Patient Personality, Symptomatic Change and Therapy Dropout. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 29, 922-932. doi:10.1002/cpp.2670