Andreas Maercker, Ph.D., M.D.
Chair and Professor of Psychopathology and Clinical Intervention University of ZurichBiography
Andreas Maercker, Ph.D., M.D., is the Chair and Professor of Psychopathology and Clinical Intervention at the University of Zurich. He completed his M.D. at Humboldt University in Berlin and his Ph.D. in Psychology at the Free University in Berlin. He served as the chair of the International Classification of Diseases trauma and stress related disorders work group at the World Health Organization. He also chairs the Historical Commission of the German Psychological Society on Stasi psychology.
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Research Interests
Dr. Maercker has published more than 200 peer-reviewed articles focused on internet-assisted mental health treatment for trauma and the development and validation of measures to assess traumatic stress, including validating such measures in different languages and for multiple cultural contexts. Additionally, he has published extensively on non-pathological outcomes following trauma including posttraumatic growth and psychological resilience, as well as strategies to accurately assess such outcomes in different cultures. Finally, his work has focused on understanding the epidemiology, risk factors, and treatment strategies of multiple forms of psychopathology among older adults.