Staff
Isabelle Engel
PhD student
Department Public Mental Health
Phone: +49 621 1703-6819
J 4, Research and Administration Building, ground floor room 014
About me
My research focuses on approaches to improve timely access to mental healthcare for people experiencing psychological distress. I am particularly interested in groups who tend to seek help only at a late stage. Using both quantitative methods—such as analyses of nationally representative panel data—and qualitative approaches, I aim to better understand gaps in mental healthcare use. One of my main interests is the potential of programs like Mental Health First Aid to reduce access barriers and support earlier help-seeking.
Projects
Evaluation of Mental Health First Aid in Germany (EMERALD: ISRCTN17630569)
Assessing the effectiveness of a low-threshold training program to improve mental health literacy and promote earlier help-seeking in the general population.
Previous experience
- B.Sc. Psychology, M.Sc. Cognitive Affective Neuroscience
- Research positions in various research groups
Links
- ORCID: 0000-0001-5719-0923
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/isabelle-engel-6770b9291
- BlueSky: @isabellepsych.bsky.social
Furthermore, I serve as the members’ representative for all Dr. sc. hum. Students at the School of Translational Medicine Mannheim (STMM). If you have any questions, concerns, or ideas to help make STMM even better, I’d be happy to hear from you!
TOP 5 publications:
- , , , , , . How self-states help: Observing the embodiment of self-states through nonverbal behavior PLoS ONE. 2024 19(3):e0300682.
- , , . Consonance and dissonance of simultaneous trichords in Western music: a listening experiment to test models of harmonicity and roughness Psychological Topics. 2023 32(1):13-34.
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