We currently host the following specific research programmes:
- Collating evidence of psychological interventions
- Global mental health
- Digital interventions
- Low-intensity interventions and insomnia
- Aetiology of mental disorders
- Living together with cancer
- Emotion regulation
- Green environments and psychological wellbeing
- Complexity of psychopathology
- Causal and predictive models for empirical methodological innovation (Clinical, Neuro- & Developmental Psychology department-wide topic)
The VU Clinical Psychology Section also has a formal partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO), in the form of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Dissemination of Psychological Interventions. This WHO CC focuses on researching and scaling up psychological interventions in conflict areas, and for culturally diverse populations in the Netherlands, such as refugees and migrants.