“ANDALUSIAN PSYCHOSOCIAL RESEARCH GROUP "GAP" CTS945

Description

The “Andalusian Psychosocial Research Group” (GAP) is located at the Psychology Faculty of the University of Malaga. The GAP is composed of professors, researchers and clinical professionals all with great experience in psychology, clinical psychology, psychiatry, primary health care and epidemiology. The great variety of experience of this multidisciplinary team permits different perspectives in the approach to research in common areas, bringing together knowledge of epidemiology, services and health care for their application in the educational and clinical settings. The main objective of the GAP is to study those areas of mental health in which we consider deficiencies to exist, thereby attempting to improve the care afforded to persons with mental health disorders.

Research Topics

Serious mental disorders: Evaluation and psychological intervention.
Assessment of mental health services.
Epidemiology in mental health.
Stigma, needs and informal care in people with mental disorders.
Detection, evaluation and intervention in people with high capacities.
Genetic and epi-genetic basis of mental disorders.
Suicide: epidemiology and prevention.
Gender and mental health perspective.

Scientific-Technical Services

Analysis of persons with severe mental illness: genetic, physical and social perspective
Design of psychiatric case registries and analysis of large clinical databases
Study of mental health from the perspective of gender.
Assessment of the use of mental health and primary care services
Spatial and geographical analysis of mental health disorders.
New technologies applied to psychotherapy (computer-aided therapies for depression).