Key topics

The department deals with a wide range of health psychology topics and issues. One key topic is stress and burnout prevention. In the context of stress reduction and health promotion, great importance is attached to the concept of self-care.

Application-oriented research: The aim of application-oriented research is to generate relevant knowledge for the implementation of prevention and health promotion in practice. The studies are based on practical health psychology issues relating to different target groups and settings.

Prevention and health promotion in practice: The central activities of this area of work include the implementation and scientific monitoring of prevention and health promotion approaches in practice. This is realized in the fields of action of intervention design and implementation as well as diagnostics and evaluation.

Projects

• Live better! Self-care for teachers – Evaluation of the short- and medium-term effects of a prevention and health promotion measure for teachers at general education schools

The prevention seminar “Live better! Self-care for teachers” was developed at zepf with the aim of strengthening self-care in everyday (school) life and thus preventing work-related stress consequences such as stress and burnout. The seminar has already proven to be effective in the long term for another target group (psychosocial professionals). In an accompanying scientific study, the effectiveness of the seminar was also examined among teachers.

• Live better! Self-care for psychosocial professionals – Design of a health promotion measure
• Study on mental strain and occupational stress factors among psychosocial professionals in Germany
• The role of self-efficacy and mindfulness in promoting the health of socially disadvantaged people
• Techniker Krankenkasse Health Week: Updating a health promotion measure for employees
• Evaluation of the project “Der Depression Beine machen” (Getting Depression Under Control)

Lectures and workshops:

• Workshop: “Teacher health as an aspect of quality development in schools” (CampusSchule network meeting, 2024)
• Lecture: “Live better! Self-care for teachers” (Digital Congress of the Center for School Quality and Teacher Training Baden-Württemberg, 2021)
• Lecture: “Live better! Self-care for psychosocial professionals – A seminar concept for strengthening mental health” (DVSG Federal Congress, Kassel, 2019)
• Workshop: “Self-care for psychosocial professionals – Discovering personal resources” (Child Welfare and Child Health Network, Speyer, 2019)
• Lecture: “Self-care – discovering personal resources” (Saarpfalz District Women's Office, Homburg, 2015)

• Workshop: “Self-care for hospice volunteers – using resources in everyday life” (Landau/Südliche Weinstraße Outpatient Hospice and Palliative Care Counseling Service, 2014)

   

Training courses:

• Live better! Self-care for teachers – Evaluation of the short- and medium-term effects of a prevention and health promotion measure for teachers at general education schools
• Live better! Self-care for psychosocial professionals – Design of a health promotion measure

References (selection)

• General Local Health Insurance Funds (AOK)
• Supervisory and Service Directorate (ADD) Rhineland-Palatinate
• Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
• Federal Ministry of Health and Social Security (BMGS)
• Federal Center for Health Education (BZgA)
• Health Department of the City of Münster
• State Center for Health Promotion Rhineland-Palatinate (LZG)
• State Pedagogical Institute (PL) Rhineland-Palatinate
• Techniker Krankenkasse (TK)
• Association of Catholic Youth Welfare (V-KJF)