Project DYNAMIC Kids
Dynamic networks of mental health in children and adolescents
In the DYNAMIC Kids sub-project of the DYNAMIC Center, we are investigating the mental health of children and adolescents using dynamic network analyses. This takes individual processes into account. We aim to provide a better understanding of individual risk and resilience factors, which will serve as a basis for personalized interventions.
The LOEWE Center DYNAMIC (www.dynamic-center.net) pursues an innovative approach in which mental disorders are viewed as dynamic networks of psychopathological, psychological and biological processes. A dynamic network describes the interplay between psychological symptoms and their interactions with socio-emotional and psycho-physiological influences over time.
A more comprehensive understanding of the development of these dynamic network structures should contribute to a better understanding of the foundations of mental health and the development of mental illnesses, identify risk conditions and develop individualized approaches for prevention and therapy and, in the long term, enable a more targeted, personalized adaptation of therapies.
The DYNAMIC Kids project focuses on the application of network-based approaches to improve mental health in children and adolescents. The longitudinal development of socio-emotional network dynamics during critical transitional phases, such as school entry, is being investigated.
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