ESRII 2026 · Conference programme

Porto, Portugal · 9 to 11 October 2026 · Universidade Lusófona · Final programme, version 14 September 2026

3 days, 4 rooms (Plenary Hall hosts the welcome, both keynotes and the closing).
39 sessions with 133 oral talks (one 15-minute slot each, presentation plus questions), grouped by topic; ⌘ marks a symposium.
14 posters in the Saturday "Coffee & posters" break; they compete with no talks and hang all day.
The programme was locked on 11 August 2026. Any later change will be published here as a new dated version.
Organised by the European Society for Research on Internet Interventions.

The programme at a glance

One grid per day, time by room. Click any session block to see its talks right below the grid; click again (or press Escape) to close. On a phone the grids become tap-to-expand lists.
Abstract book (PDF): schedule and all abstracts Programme at a glance (PDF)

Friday 9 October14:00-17:45

Plenary Hall

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Welcome: Inês Jongenelen & Gerhard Andersson14:00-14:20

Coffee15:50-16:30

#01 AI simulated patients & raters for clinician training and skills assessment

14:20-15:05 · 3 talks

#05 Digital interventions and monitoring in cancer and somatic illness (1/2)

15:05-15:50 · 3 talks

#07 Machine-learning prediction & decision support in internet therapy and chat services

16:30-17:45 · 5 talks

#02 OCD, BDD & exposure-based phobia interventions

14:20-15:35 · 5 talks

#08 Social, performance and public-speaking anxiety interventions (2/3)

16:30-17:15 · 3 talks

#09 Implementation, scaling & service models for digital mental-health care (1/3)

16:30-17:30 · 4 talks

#03 Therapist roles, training & professional adoption of digital tools (1/2)

14:20-15:05 · 3 talks

#04 Perinatal & postpartum digital mental health: interventions and their implementation

14:20-14:50 · 2 talks

#10 Serious games & gaming for mental health

16:30-17:15 · 3 talks

#11 Social, performance and public-speaking anxiety interventions (3/3)

17:30-17:45 · 3 talks

#12 Implementation, scaling & service models for digital mental-health care (2/3)

17:30-17:45 · 2 talks

#06 Social, performance and public-speaking anxiety interventions (1/3)

15:35-15:50 · 2 talks

14:00-14:20 Welcome: Inês Jongenelen & Gerhard Andersson

14:20-15:05 #01 AI simulated patients & raters for clinician training and skills assessment Plenary Hall

14:20 Bogdan Tudor Tulbure · NextSession: Can an AI Patient Support CBT Training? A Feasibility Study
14:35 Anna Hudson · Using AI chatbots to test clinical skills: A longitudinal study into the effectiveness of a suicide prevention e-learning intervention
14:50 Ruben Decoster · Can AI reliably assess complex conversational skills? Comparing AI-generated rubric scores with expert ratings in AVATALK

14:20-15:35 #02 OCD, BDD & exposure-based phobia interventions Room A

14:20 Iratxe Alonso-Olea · Ecological Monitoring of Exposure Tasks Using a Mobile Application in Two Cases of Specific Phobia
14:35 Patricia Gual Montolio · Feasibility and User Perceptions of "Symptoms", a mHealth app for Exposure Therapy in Specific Phobia
14:50 Jón Ingi Hlynsson · Rethinking OCD Delivery: Scaling Exposure Therapy Through Augmented Reality
15:05 Imke Sonneveldt · A digital mental health intervention targeting obsessive doubt in obsessive-compulsive disorder: Preliminary results in a multiple baseline single case experimental design study
15:20 Marieke Meier · Inside the Textbox: Patient Concerns in Written Internet-Based Therapy for Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD-NET): A Reflexive Thematic Analysis

14:20-15:05 #03 Therapist roles, training & professional adoption of digital tools (1/2) Room B

14:20 Karin Panitz · Beyond the app: What occupational physicians want to know about digital therapeutics
14:35 Kjetil Willem Jacob Diepeveen Skaugen · Developing a National Training Manual for Therapists Delivering Guided Internet-Based Treatment in Norway
14:50 Tine Nordgreen · Sustainable service models for guided internet-delivered treatment

14:20-14:50 #04 Perinatal & postpartum digital mental health: interventions and their implementation Room C

14:20 Caroline Meyer · Effectiveness of a smartphone-based intervention for postpartum depression: Results of the Smart-e-Moms study
14:35 Erika Gibė · Effects of the BODYPOSI Online Intervention on Appearance and Weight Satisfaction and Self-Compassion Among Postpartum Women: Preliminary Randomized Controlled Trial Findings

15:05-15:50 #05 Digital interventions and monitoring in cancer and somatic illness (1/2) Plenary Hall

15:05 Camilla Thuen · Who benefits from internet-delivered interventions for irritable bowel syndrome? Results from an explorative secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial
15:20 Ana Filipa Dias Oliveira · Development and usability evaluation of a web-based cognitive rehabilitation program for cancer survivors (CanCOG® web) - A mixed-methods study
15:35 Maria Inês Clara · Co-designing an extended reality intervention to educate adolescent and young adult testicular cancer survivors regarding treatment late effects: TRANSCEND XR

15:35-15:50 #06 Social, performance and public-speaking anxiety interventions (1/3) Room A

Shared talk, one presentation by Mikkel Aaboe, Stine Ronholt:

15:35 One Entry Point for Many Anxiety Profiles: Designing a Shared Digital Introductory Module Across Anxiety Disorders

15:50-16:30 Coffee

16:30-17:45 #07 Machine-learning prediction & decision support in internet therapy and chat services Plenary Hall

16:30 Marek Wypych · Towards Personalized Treatment Recommendation - Optimizing Behavioral Strategy Selection for Online Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Procrastination using Machine Learning
16:45 Esben Kjems Jensen · Predicting non-adherence in routine care iCBT for anxiety and depression
17:00 George Caique Gouveia Barbosa · Can Generative AI Learn to Tag Chat Counselling Transcripts? Assessing LLMs Fine-Tuned on Chat Operator Responses
17:15 Pontus Bjurner · Therapist behaviors and perceptions using a Machine Learning based Clinical Decision Support System for Internet-delivered Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
17:30 Viktor Kaldo · Predictive Accuracy and Symptom Trajectories in At-Risk Patients when applying a Machine Learning–Based Decision Support Tool in Internet-Delivered CBT

16:30-17:15 #08 Social, performance and public-speaking anxiety interventions (2/3) Room A

16:30 Stefanie Julia Schmidt · Efficacy and Symptom-Level Mechanisms of Change in a Digital Mental Health Intervention for Adolescents with subthreshold and clinical levels of social anxiety
16:45 Jonas Eimontas · Cognitive behavioral therapy–based virtual reality exposure intervention for public speaking anxiety: One-year follow-up effects
17:00 Gerhard Andersson · PIM. A controlled pilot trial on ICBT for performance anxiety in young adults

16:30-17:30 #09 Implementation, scaling & service models for digital mental-health care (1/3) Room B

16:30 chelsea Sawyer · Feasibility of Remote Exercise Interventions for First-Episode Psychosis: A Mixed-Methods Study
16:45 Chloe French · Online Group Fitness Training for Young People with First-Episode Psychosis: Evidence, engagement, and implementation
17:00 Erling W. Rognli · Resource-efficient Quality Control of Therapist Fidelity with Hierarchical Bayesian Modelling
17:15 Daniel Duffy · Building the evidence base of a commercial digital behavioural health intervention: The Amwell Research Portfolio Approach

16:30-17:15 #10 Serious games & gaming for mental health Room C

16:30 Magdalena Lesnierowska · Beyond Entertainment: A Multi-Perspective Qualitative Study on the Meaning of Video Games in Youth Narratives
16:45 Rui Pedro Tinoco Carreiro · Loot Boxes in Video Games – A Bibliometric Study
17:00 Josefin Brehmer · What can we learn from qualitative interviews with users of a CBT-based smartphone serious game?

17:30-17:45 #11 Social, performance and public-speaking anxiety interventions (3/3) Room A

Shared talk, one presentation by Anita Santos, Cláudia Abreu de Oliveira, Liliana Meira:

17:30 Internet-Delivered Cognitive Behavioral Therapy With Real-Time Therapist Support via Videoconference for University Students With Social Anxiety Disorder: A Feasibility Study

17:30-17:45 #12 Implementation, scaling & service models for digital mental-health care (2/3) Room B

Shared talk, one presentation by Laura Emilie Ingerslev, Rie Eg Sell:

17:30 From Pilot to National Service: Scaling Digital Mental Health Care in Denmark

Saturday 10 October09:00-17:50

Plenary Hall

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Keynote: Ewelina Smoktunowicz09:00-09:30

Coffee10:45-11:15

Lunch12:45-14:00

Coffee & posters · poster session (14 posters)15:45-16:35

#13 Digital interventions and monitoring in cancer and somatic illness (2/2)

09:30-10:00 · 2 talks

⌘ #25 Internet-Based Interventions Across Development

14:00-15:45 · 7 talks

⌘ #18 Digital perinatal mental health (Mamma Mia, Norway)

11:15-12:30 · 5 talks

#29 Parenting & caregiver digital interventions

16:35-17:35 · 4 talks

#30 Evidence synthesis, screening & methods (1/2)

16:35-17:50 · 5 talks

#26 Predictors, mechanisms, personalization & treatment components

14:00-15:30 · 6 talks

#19 Therapeutic alliance & relationship in blended and online therapy (1/2)

11:15-12:15 · 4 talks

#14 AI chatbots, conversational agents & AI-generated mental-health content (1/3)

09:30-10:30 · 4 talks

#15 Youth digital services, single-session counseling & equity

09:30-10:00 · 2 talks

#31 AI chatbots, conversational agents & AI-generated mental-health content (2/3)

16:35-17:35 · 4 talks

#20 Sexual-health & LGBTQIA+ digital interventions

11:15-12:15 · 4 talks

#27 Prevention, resilience & well-being interventions (1/2)

14:00-14:45 · 3 talks

#21 Implementation, scaling & service models for digital mental-health care (3/3)

11:15-12:15 · 4 talks

#17 Occupational stress, recovery & workplace mental health (1/2)

10:00-10:45 · 3 talks

⌘ #16 Technology for Preventing Reproductive and Perinatal Emotional Disorders

09:30-10:30 · 4 talks

#28 Ecological momentary interventions, JITAI and wearable monitoring (1/2)

14:00-14:45 · 3 talks

#22 AI applied to social anxiety disorder: feedback & diagnosis

12:15-12:45 · 2 talks

#23 Digital interventions for ADHD, paediatric pain and childhood insomnia

12:15-12:45 · 2 talks

#24 Therapeutic alliance & relationship in blended and online therapy (2/2)

12:30-12:45 · 2 talks

09:00-09:30 Keynote: Ewelina Smoktunowicz

09:30-10:00 #13 Digital interventions and monitoring in cancer and somatic illness (2/2) Plenary Hall

09:30 Cristina Mendes-Santos · Breast Cancer Survivors' Acceptance and Perceived Impact of Passive Sensing for Mental Health
09:45 Beatriz da Silva Matos · Feasibility and Acceptability of Passive Sensing as a Standalone and Adjunct Component of an Internet-Delivered Psychological Intervention for Breast Cancer Survivors: Findings from the iNNOVSensing Pilot Study (NCT03275727)

09:30-10:30 #14 AI chatbots, conversational agents & AI-generated mental-health content (1/3) Room A

09:30 Francisco Valente Goncalves · Can Lay Users Distinguish AI From Psychologists in Online Mental Health Information? A Signal Detection Theory Approach
09:45 Ali Amiri · How Does Artificial Intelligence Perform in Cultural Adaptation of Psychological Techniques? An Experimental Study of Perceived Relevance and Acceptability of CBT Techniques Culturally Adapted into Persian Dari by Artificial Intelligence Versus a Human Expert
10:00 Esther Mertens · User Subjective Experience of AI-Driven Conversational Agents in Mental Health Interventions: Development and Evaluation of a New Instrument
10:15 Aneliana da Silva Prado · Development and Evaluation of an AI-Assisted Biofeedback Chatbot to Support Emotion Regulation in Everyday Life

09:30-10:00 #15 Youth digital services, single-session counseling & equity Room B

09:30 Evaldas Kazlauskas · Bridging the Gap in Low-Resource Settings: The Role of Digital Tools and Positive Affect in Enhancing Youth Mental Health in Zimbabwe
09:45 Patrik Senica · From delay to dialogue: Chat counseling as a modern intervention

09:30-10:30 ⌘ #16 Technology for Preventing Reproductive and Perinatal Emotional Disorders Room C

09:30 Maria Inês Clara · From evidence to practice: The implementation of Be a Mom in the Portuguese National Health Service
09:45 Mariana Cova Jorge Branquinho · Implementation of the Be a Mom program in the Portuguese National Health Service: Qualitative data on barriers and facilitators
10:00 VERONICA MARTINEZ-BORBA · A mobile application design to prevent the onset of emotional disorders in people receiving fertility treatments: RE-FER
10:15 Laura Andreu-Pejó · REGULEM-PERINATAL: A mobil app for the universal prevention of emotional disorders during pregnancy

10:00-10:45 #17 Occupational stress, recovery & workplace mental health (1/2) Plenary Hall

10:00 Hanna Amira Brueckner · Investigating the programme theory underlying the GET.ON Recovery: Secondary analyses of four randomised controlled trials (RCTs) investigating the impact of work-related mechanisms of change in insomnia
10:15 Cristina González-Monroy · Factors Associated with Anxiety Symptoms in Workers with Low Depressive Risk: Baseline Findings from the Preventive Digital Intervention Trial ‘e-predictD-Work’
10:30 Jan Maciejewski · 4 Sources Intervention versus Digital Placebo: Efficacy and User Engagement Patterns in an Internet Intervention for Young Employees’ Well-Being.

10:45-11:15 Coffee

11:15-12:30 ⌘ #18 Digital perinatal mental health (Mamma Mia, Norway) Plenary Hall

11:15 Silje Marie Haga · Reducing perinatal anxiety with a digital self-help intervention: Findings from the Mamma Mia randomized trial
11:30 Thea Sundrehagen · Reducing perinatal depression and anxiety with a digital intervention (Mamma Mia): a cluster-randomized controlled trial comparing self-help to the guided intervention
11:45 Thea Sundrehagen · Cost-effectiveness of a smartphone application for preventing perinatal depression (Mamma Mia): a cluster-randomized controlled trial comparing the guided model to self-help.
12:00 Ellen Solstad Olavesen · “One size does not fit all”: User perspectives on a digital perinatal intervention
12:15 Ellen Solstad Olavesen · Implementing digital interventions in Maternity and Child Health Services: Attitudes to Evidence-Based Practice and Readiness for Change

11:15-12:15 #19 Therapeutic alliance & relationship in blended and online therapy (1/2) Room A

11:15 Carmen Schaeuffele · The Alliance Goes Digital: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Therapeutic Relationship in Blended Care
11:30 Liliana Maria Rodrigues Pedro · Exploring Group Relationships and Therapeutic Alliance in Synchronous Online versus In-Person Unified Protocol Groups
11:45 Lara Bellu · What Makes Therapists Effective in Blended, Transdiagnostic Treatment Settings? An Investigation of Therapist Effects on Mental Health Outcomes, Treatment Length, Dropout, and Their Predictors
12:00 Jorge Osma · Therapeutic Alliance in blended Unified Protocol for the transdiagnostic treatment of emotional disorders: A comparison between face-to-face and App therapists

11:15-12:15 #20 Sexual-health & LGBTQIA+ digital interventions Room B

11:15 Cristina Mendes-Santos · Feasibility and Acceptability of Anathema, a Smartphone-Delivered Cognitive-Behavioural Sexual Health Promotion Program for Older Adults: Findings from a Blended-Care Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial in Austria (DERR1-10.2196/46734)
11:30 Cristina Santos · Feasibility and Acceptability of Anathema, a Guided Smartphone-Delivered Sexual Health Program for Colorectal Cancer Survivors: Findings from a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial in Portugal (DERR1-10.2196/46734)
11:45 Florian Jung · Clinical trial on the participatory development and evaluation of an e-mental health intervention for LGBTQIA+ individuals with somatoform, anxiety, and depressive disorders (Queer-EMH-2)
12:00 Andreia A. Manão · ANTHESIS LGB+: Development and Protocol of a Tailored Internet-Based Intervention for Distressing Sexual Function in LGB+ People

11:15-12:15 #21 Implementation, scaling & service models for digital mental-health care (3/3) Room C

11:15 Jeanette Halvorsen · A qualitative exploration of implementation of evidence-based, therapist-guided e-therapy within routine child and adolescent mental health in Norway
11:30 Marianne Aalberg · What Makes iCBT Take Off? Organizational Determinants of Successful Implementation of Therapist-Guided Internet CBT for Youth Anxiety
11:45 Martin Kraepelien · Digital psychological self-guided tools in primary healthcare
12:00 Jennifer Apolinário-Hagen · Recommender System Concept to Support Personalized Access to University Mental Health Services

12:15-12:45 #22 AI applied to social anxiety disorder: feedback & diagnosis Room A

12:15 Tom Van Daele · AI for social anxiety disorder diagnosis: Results and reflections from a scoping review
12:30 Per Carlbring · AI feedback in ICBT for social anxiety: A deception-controlled RCT separating source from expectancy

12:15-12:45 #23 Digital interventions for ADHD, paediatric pain and childhood insomnia Room B

12:15 Signe Marie Bandlien · Guiding Families Through Childhood Insomnia: Health Professionals’ Perspectives on the Sleep Well Digital Program
12:30 Lea Schuurmans · Efficacy of the Digital Health Application ORIKO® for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in Adults: Protocol of a Randomized Controlled Trial

12:30-12:45 #24 Therapeutic alliance & relationship in blended and online therapy (2/2) Plenary Hall

Shared talk, one presentation by Emilie Dyhr Ulrich, Rie Eg Sell:

12:30 Validating Patient Voices in iCBT: Integrating Quantitative Satisfaction Data and Thematic Analysis in a Feedback-Informed Loop

12:45-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:45 ⌘ #25 Internet-Based Interventions Across Development Plenary Hall

14:00 Charlotte Ulrikka Rask · My Symptoms Young: An Online Self-help Intervention for Young People with Persistent Physical Symptoms
14:15 Eva Skovslund Nielsen · Digital CBT for Pediatric Functional Abdominal Pain: Understanding the Role of Parents in Treatment Success
14:30 Eva De Jaegere · Feasibility, usability, and preliminary outcomes of Spark, a co-created mobile app for young people with suicidal ideation: A pilot study
14:45 Eva Serlachius · Durability of online behavioural activation for adolescents with mild to moderate depression: a randomised controlled trial
15:00 Fanny Schober (née Dietel) · Digital Health Interventions for Internalizing Disorders in Children and Adolescents: A Meta-Analysis
15:15 Jeannette Brodbeck · Emotion Regulation and Social Information Processing as Intervention Targets in a Guided Prevention App for Emerging Adults with Adverse Childhood Experiences: A Randomised Controlled Trial
15:30 Sara Harmenberg · Tiny Heroes: Co-Development and Pilot Study of an Internet-Based CBT Program for Anxiety in Young Children

14:00-15:30 #26 Predictors, mechanisms, personalization & treatment components Room A

14:00 Joachim Kowalski · How online group psychotherapy for procrastination changes brain connectivity
14:15 Pavle Zagorscak · How to report personalized Internet- and mobile- based intervention components: Introducing the ADAPT-I checklist
14:30 Jonathan Torbecke · How to Involve Significant Others in Online Interventions? Integrating Patients’, Significant Others’, and Psychotherapists’ Perspectives
14:45 Mara Campos Pacheco · Computational Cognitive Behavioural Case Formulation for Depression: A Digital Tool for Treatment Personalization
15:00 Mafalda Filipa Lobão de Sousa · A Self-Tailored Guided Internet-Delivered Intervention for Portuguese Higher Education Students with Depression and/or Anxiety Symptoms: A Randomized Controlled Trial
15:15 Diego Fernández-Regueras · Microprocesses Predicting Early Therapeutic Alliance in Videoconferencing and Face-to-Face Therapy

14:00-14:45 #27 Prevention, resilience & well-being interventions (1/2) Room B

14:00 Mariebelle Kaus · Who Is Ready for Digital Mental Health Prevention? A Latent Profile Analysis of Awareness of Services, Use Intention, Mental Health Prevention Importance, and eHealth Literacy in a Population-Based Sample
14:15 Anahita Geranmayeh · Culturally Adapted Internet-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Farsi/Dari-Speaking Young Migrants and Refugees with Common Mental Health Problems
14:30 Cristina García Huércano · Developing a Digital Psychological Intervention to Prevent Anxiety, Depression, and Substance Use in Young People: Protocol for the PREVIDAS Project

14:00-14:45 #28 Ecological momentary interventions, JITAI and wearable monitoring (1/2) Room C

14:00 Nele A.J. De Witte · Implementing wearables for longitudinal well-being monitoring: feasibility and lessons learned
14:15 Pedro Emanuel Martins Silva Gomes · Ecological Momentary and Just-In-Time Adaptive Interventions for Psychosis: An Ongoing Systematic Review of Design, Content, and Outcomes
14:30 Toon Colman · Monitoring daily stress using wearables and self-report: Investigating data quality and longitudinal patterns in the StressTRACS study

15:45-16:35 Coffee & posters · poster session (14 posters)

16:35-17:35 #29 Parenting & caregiver digital interventions Plenary Hall

16:35 Amal Saleh Al Ghailani · What should a caregiver app look like in Oman? Lived experience and digital receptivity among parents of children with Down syndrome
16:50 Maria José Lumini · Delivery modalities in digital interventions for family caregivers: mapping strategies and patterns of effectiveness
17:05 Charlotte Rosenbach · Development of a Digital Intervention for Psychologically Distressed Parents: Results of a Feasibility Study
17:20 Karen Hansen Kallesøe · Hand in Hand: Protocol for a Feasibility Study of a Compassion-Focused Self-Help App for Parents of Children Referred to CAMHS

16:35-17:50 #30 Evidence synthesis, screening & methods (1/2) Room A

16:35 Alberto Gonzalez-Robles · Do Mobile App-Based Psychological Interventions Work in Primary Care? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
16:50 Julia Radi · Interventions Targeting Future-Oriented Thinking to Improve Mental Health: A Meta-Analysis in Young Adults
17:05 Edna M. Martins · Recruiting for Internet-Based Psychological Trials: Challenges From Two Portuguese iCBT Studies on Social Anxiety and Sexual Health
17:20 Laura de la Coba Cañizares · Efficacy of technology-supported interventions for grief: A systematic review.
17:35 Jiexin Zhang · Co-production and evaluation of a web-based intervention to support healthcare seeking and improve antibiotic stewardship among Chinese and Indian students in the UK: a person-based approach

16:35-17:35 #31 AI chatbots, conversational agents & AI-generated mental-health content (2/3) Room B

16:35 Kristofer Vernmark · Adoption of Generative AI among Swedish Psychologists: Results from a National Survey of Intention to Use and Future Integration into Professional Practice
16:50 Jessica Vazzaz · Exploring the Use of a Generative Artificial Intelligence Wellbeing Coach for Sleep Disturbance in Working Adults
17:05 Noah J Marshall · The Rise of AI for Mental Health Support: Using Global Online Search Data to Inform Intervention Design and Implementation
17:20 Gergő Csaba Morvai · Deputy: Bridging the Between-Session Gap Through Clinician-Governed, Voice-Enabled AI

Sunday 11 October09:00-12:00

Plenary Hall

Room A

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Room C

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09:30

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Keynote: David Ebert09:00-09:30

Coffee10:15-10:45

Closing: Gerhard Andersson (awards & next ESRII host)11:45-12:00

#36 Evidence synthesis, screening & methods (2/2)

10:45-11:45 · 4 talks

#37 Therapist roles, training & professional adoption of digital tools (2/2)

10:45-11:45 · 4 talks

#38 Adherence & engagement in digital interventions

10:45-11:45 · 4 talks

#32 Substance-use interventions & behavioural-outcome methods

09:30-10:00 · 2 talks

#33 AI chatbots, conversational agents & AI-generated mental-health content (3/3)

09:30-10:00 · 2 talks

#34 Occupational stress, recovery & workplace mental health (2/2)

09:30-10:15 · 3 talks

#35 Ecological momentary interventions, JITAI and wearable monitoring (2/2)

09:30-10:00 · 2 talks

#39 Prevention, resilience & well-being interventions (2/2)

10:45-11:45 · 4 talks

09:00-09:30 Keynote: David Ebert

09:30-10:00 #32 Substance-use interventions & behavioural-outcome methods Plenary Hall

09:30 Philip Lindner · Long term effects of Digital vs. Face-to-face intervention for alcohol use disorder
09:45 Philip Lindner · A week has but seven days: Conceptual perspectives and an impact simulation study on whether days-based behavioral outcome measures in internet interventions should be considered right-censored

09:30-10:00 #33 AI chatbots, conversational agents & AI-generated mental-health content (3/3) Room A

09:30 Tim Vanhove · Limiting AI chatbots in mental health: focus on empathy or on escalation?
09:45 Sylvie Bernaerts · When chatbots become confidants: Exploring real-world use of AI chatbots for mental health support

09:30-10:15 #34 Occupational stress, recovery & workplace mental health (2/2) Room B

09:30 Austėja Dumarkaitė · An abbreviated internet-delivered stress recovery intervention for healthcare workers: Feasibility and implications for implementation
09:45 Adina Kreis · Effectiveness and Engagement of an Internet- and Mobile-Based Aftercare Intervention for Return to Work After Inpatient Rehabilitation
10:00 Aliza Janzen-Lympius · The Productivity Costs of Work-Related Stressors in Employees - Secondary Analysis of Individual Participant Data of 16 Randomized Controlled Trials on Internet Interventions

09:30-10:00 #35 Ecological momentary interventions, JITAI and wearable monitoring (2/2) Room C

09:30 Natalie Sara Hess · A dyadic-based, AI-driven, just-in-time adaptive intervention mechanism for preventing anxiety and depressive disorders via app: a feasibility study
09:45 Laura de la Coba Cañizares · Expert psychologists’ perceptions and opinions on the design and development of a mobile application including Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) and Ecological Momentary Intervention (EMI): A Qualitative Analysis.

10:15-10:45 Coffee

10:45-11:45 #36 Evidence synthesis, screening & methods (2/2) Plenary Hall

10:45 Rebekka Büscher · Effects of digital interventions for depression on suicidal ideation – a meta-analysis of individual participant data
11:00 Sophie Dallison · Have digital self-help mental health intervention research studies reached and been adopted by Global Majority young people?
11:15 Livija Ziemiene · Effects of Different Chatbot Types on Youth Mental Health: A Systematic Review
11:30 Tomer Savir · Online Mental Health Screening and Feedback - Why People Use It and How It Impacts Their Pathway to Care: Cross-Sectional Study

10:45-11:45 #37 Therapist roles, training & professional adoption of digital tools (2/2) Room A

10:45 Fatma Sahan · Digital Transformation in Musculoskeletal Care: Acceptance Determinants Among Physicians based on the UTAUT Model
11:00 Alena Adiyaman · "Tool, Not Threat": Psychotherapists-in-Training's Perceptions of Digital Health Applications in Psychotherapy
11:15 Eva Van Assche · Helping professionals navigate digital mental health apps: An impact evaluation of the Flemish-Belgian platform Onlinehulp-apps.be
11:30 Fien Buelens · Digital Mental Health Use, Training Needs, and Attitudes Toward a Digital Navigator: A Cross-sectional Survey of European Psychologists

10:45-11:45 #38 Adherence & engagement in digital interventions Room B

10:45 Anna Baumeister · Beyond the usual suspects: Uncovering predictors of adherence
11:00 Anna Pyttlik · The Best of Both Worlds? A Qualitative Pilot Study on Barriers and Facilitators to Adherence and Acceptance of the Blended Care Intervention StudiCare Procrastination for University Students
11:15 Markus Høstaker · Developing an Adjunctive Intervention to Increase Adherence to Internet-Delivered CBT: An Intervention Mapping Approach.
11:30 Siobhan Shaw · Designing for Disengagement: Rethinking Engagement in Digital Interventions for Anhedonia and Amotivation

10:45-11:45 #39 Prevention, resilience & well-being interventions (2/2) Room C

10:45 Victoria Aminoff · Could internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy be helpful for psychological symptoms related to financials? Findings from a pilot study in Sweden
11:00 Smiti Kahlon · Big Five for mental health: a randomized controlled trial in a Norwegian context
11:15 Sandy Hannibal · XR2ESILIENCE: Conceptual framework and insights into the design of a XR-supported resilience training for nurses
11:30 Orly Sapir-Budnero · Parental Mental Health Change in a Digital Parent Training for Child Behavior Problems: A Network Analysis

11:45-12:00 Closing: Gerhard Andersson (awards & next ESRII host)

Adherence & engagementAI, chatbots & LLMsAlliance & blended careAnxiety & related disordersChildren & adolescentsDepression & moodEMA, JITAI & sensingImplementation & scalingMethods & psychometricsPerinatal & maternalPredictors, mechanisms, precisionPrevention & well-beingQualitative & user experienceSubstance use & addiction

Day by day, in detail

The complete listing: every session with all its talks, plus the keynotes, breaks and the poster session, in order.

Friday 9 October14:00-17:45

14:00-14:20 Welcome: Inês Jongenelen & Gerhard Andersson · Plenary Hall

14:20-15:35 4 parallel sessions

Plenary Hall

#01 AI simulated patients & raters for clinician training and skills assessment

14:20 Bogdan Tudor Tulbure · NextSession: Can an AI Patient Support CBT Training? A Feasibility Study
14:35 Anna Hudson · Using AI chatbots to test clinical skills: A longitudinal study into the effectiveness of a suicide prevention e-learning intervention
14:50 Ruben Decoster · Can AI reliably assess complex conversational skills? Comparing AI-generated rubric scores with expert ratings in AVATALK

Room A

#02 OCD, BDD & exposure-based phobia interventions

14:20 Iratxe Alonso-Olea · Ecological Monitoring of Exposure Tasks Using a Mobile Application in Two Cases of Specific Phobia
14:35 Patricia Gual Montolio · Feasibility and User Perceptions of "Symptoms", a mHealth app for Exposure Therapy in Specific Phobia
14:50 Jón Ingi Hlynsson · Rethinking OCD Delivery: Scaling Exposure Therapy Through Augmented Reality
15:05 Imke Sonneveldt · A digital mental health intervention targeting obsessive doubt in obsessive-compulsive disorder: Preliminary results in a multiple baseline single case experimental design study
15:20 Marieke Meier · Inside the Textbox: Patient Concerns in Written Internet-Based Therapy for Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD-NET): A Reflexive Thematic Analysis

Room B

#03 Therapist roles, training & professional adoption of digital tools (1/2)

14:20 Karin Panitz · Beyond the app: What occupational physicians want to know about digital therapeutics
14:35 Kjetil Willem Jacob Diepeveen Skaugen · Developing a National Training Manual for Therapists Delivering Guided Internet-Based Treatment in Norway
14:50 Tine Nordgreen · Sustainable service models for guided internet-delivered treatment

Room C

#04 Perinatal & postpartum digital mental health: interventions and their implementation

14:20 Caroline Meyer · Effectiveness of a smartphone-based intervention for postpartum depression: Results of the Smart-e-Moms study
14:35 Erika Gibė · Effects of the BODYPOSI Online Intervention on Appearance and Weight Satisfaction and Self-Compassion Among Postpartum Women: Preliminary Randomized Controlled Trial Findings

15:05-15:50 1 parallel session

Plenary Hall

#05 Digital interventions and monitoring in cancer and somatic illness (1/2)

15:05 Camilla Thuen · Who benefits from internet-delivered interventions for irritable bowel syndrome? Results from an explorative secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial
15:20 Ana Filipa Dias Oliveira · Development and usability evaluation of a web-based cognitive rehabilitation program for cancer survivors (CanCOG® web) - A mixed-methods study
15:35 Maria Inês Clara · Co-designing an extended reality intervention to educate adolescent and young adult testicular cancer survivors regarding treatment late effects: TRANSCEND XR

15:35-15:50 1 parallel session

Room A

#06 Social, performance and public-speaking anxiety interventions (1/3)

Shared talk, one presentation by Mikkel Aaboe, Stine Ronholt:

15:35 One Entry Point for Many Anxiety Profiles: Designing a Shared Digital Introductory Module Across Anxiety Disorders

15:50-16:30 Coffee

16:30-17:45 4 parallel sessions

Plenary Hall

#07 Machine-learning prediction & decision support in internet therapy and chat services

16:30 Marek Wypych · Towards Personalized Treatment Recommendation - Optimizing Behavioral Strategy Selection for Online Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Procrastination using Machine Learning
16:45 Esben Kjems Jensen · Predicting non-adherence in routine care iCBT for anxiety and depression
17:00 George Caique Gouveia Barbosa · Can Generative AI Learn to Tag Chat Counselling Transcripts? Assessing LLMs Fine-Tuned on Chat Operator Responses
17:15 Pontus Bjurner · Therapist behaviors and perceptions using a Machine Learning based Clinical Decision Support System for Internet-delivered Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
17:30 Viktor Kaldo · Predictive Accuracy and Symptom Trajectories in At-Risk Patients when applying a Machine Learning–Based Decision Support Tool in Internet-Delivered CBT

Room A

#08 Social, performance and public-speaking anxiety interventions (2/3)

16:30 Stefanie Julia Schmidt · Efficacy and Symptom-Level Mechanisms of Change in a Digital Mental Health Intervention for Adolescents with subthreshold and clinical levels of social anxiety
16:45 Jonas Eimontas · Cognitive behavioral therapy–based virtual reality exposure intervention for public speaking anxiety: One-year follow-up effects
17:00 Gerhard Andersson · PIM. A controlled pilot trial on ICBT for performance anxiety in young adults

Room B

#09 Implementation, scaling & service models for digital mental-health care (1/3)

16:30 chelsea Sawyer · Feasibility of Remote Exercise Interventions for First-Episode Psychosis: A Mixed-Methods Study
16:45 Chloe French · Online Group Fitness Training for Young People with First-Episode Psychosis: Evidence, engagement, and implementation
17:00 Erling W. Rognli · Resource-efficient Quality Control of Therapist Fidelity with Hierarchical Bayesian Modelling
17:15 Daniel Duffy · Building the evidence base of a commercial digital behavioural health intervention: The Amwell Research Portfolio Approach

Room C

#10 Serious games & gaming for mental health

16:30 Magdalena Lesnierowska · Beyond Entertainment: A Multi-Perspective Qualitative Study on the Meaning of Video Games in Youth Narratives
16:45 Rui Pedro Tinoco Carreiro · Loot Boxes in Video Games – A Bibliometric Study
17:00 Josefin Brehmer · What can we learn from qualitative interviews with users of a CBT-based smartphone serious game?

17:30-17:45 2 parallel sessions

Room A

#11 Social, performance and public-speaking anxiety interventions (3/3)

Shared talk, one presentation by Anita Santos, Cláudia Abreu de Oliveira, Liliana Meira:

17:30 Internet-Delivered Cognitive Behavioral Therapy With Real-Time Therapist Support via Videoconference for University Students With Social Anxiety Disorder: A Feasibility Study

Room B

#12 Implementation, scaling & service models for digital mental-health care (2/3)

Shared talk, one presentation by Laura Emilie Ingerslev, Rie Eg Sell:

17:30 From Pilot to National Service: Scaling Digital Mental Health Care in Denmark

Saturday 10 October09:00-17:50

09:00-09:30 Keynote: Ewelina Smoktunowicz · Plenary Hall

09:30-10:30 4 parallel sessions

Plenary Hall

#13 Digital interventions and monitoring in cancer and somatic illness (2/2)

09:30 Cristina Mendes-Santos · Breast Cancer Survivors' Acceptance and Perceived Impact of Passive Sensing for Mental Health
09:45 Beatriz da Silva Matos · Feasibility and Acceptability of Passive Sensing as a Standalone and Adjunct Component of an Internet-Delivered Psychological Intervention for Breast Cancer Survivors: Findings from the iNNOVSensing Pilot Study (NCT03275727)

Room A

#14 AI chatbots, conversational agents & AI-generated mental-health content (1/3)

09:30 Francisco Valente Goncalves · Can Lay Users Distinguish AI From Psychologists in Online Mental Health Information? A Signal Detection Theory Approach
09:45 Ali Amiri · How Does Artificial Intelligence Perform in Cultural Adaptation of Psychological Techniques? An Experimental Study of Perceived Relevance and Acceptability of CBT Techniques Culturally Adapted into Persian Dari by Artificial Intelligence Versus a Human Expert
10:00 Esther Mertens · User Subjective Experience of AI-Driven Conversational Agents in Mental Health Interventions: Development and Evaluation of a New Instrument
10:15 Aneliana da Silva Prado · Development and Evaluation of an AI-Assisted Biofeedback Chatbot to Support Emotion Regulation in Everyday Life

Room B

#15 Youth digital services, single-session counseling & equity

09:30 Evaldas Kazlauskas · Bridging the Gap in Low-Resource Settings: The Role of Digital Tools and Positive Affect in Enhancing Youth Mental Health in Zimbabwe
09:45 Patrik Senica · From delay to dialogue: Chat counseling as a modern intervention

Room C

#16 ⌘ Technology for Preventing Reproductive and Perinatal Emotional Disorders

09:30 Maria Inês Clara · From evidence to practice: The implementation of Be a Mom in the Portuguese National Health Service
09:45 Mariana Cova Jorge Branquinho · Implementation of the Be a Mom program in the Portuguese National Health Service: Qualitative data on barriers and facilitators
10:00 VERONICA MARTINEZ-BORBA · A mobile application design to prevent the onset of emotional disorders in people receiving fertility treatments: RE-FER
10:15 Laura Andreu-Pejó · REGULEM-PERINATAL: A mobil app for the universal prevention of emotional disorders during pregnancy

10:00-10:45 1 parallel session

Plenary Hall

#17 Occupational stress, recovery & workplace mental health (1/2)

10:00 Hanna Amira Brueckner · Investigating the programme theory underlying the GET.ON Recovery: Secondary analyses of four randomised controlled trials (RCTs) investigating the impact of work-related mechanisms of change in insomnia
10:15 Cristina González-Monroy · Factors Associated with Anxiety Symptoms in Workers with Low Depressive Risk: Baseline Findings from the Preventive Digital Intervention Trial ‘e-predictD-Work’
10:30 Jan Maciejewski · 4 Sources Intervention versus Digital Placebo: Efficacy and User Engagement Patterns in an Internet Intervention for Young Employees’ Well-Being.

10:45-11:15 Coffee

11:15-12:30 4 parallel sessions

Plenary Hall

#18 ⌘ Digital perinatal mental health (Mamma Mia, Norway)

11:15 Silje Marie Haga · Reducing perinatal anxiety with a digital self-help intervention: Findings from the Mamma Mia randomized trial
11:30 Thea Sundrehagen · Reducing perinatal depression and anxiety with a digital intervention (Mamma Mia): a cluster-randomized controlled trial comparing self-help to the guided intervention
11:45 Thea Sundrehagen · Cost-effectiveness of a smartphone application for preventing perinatal depression (Mamma Mia): a cluster-randomized controlled trial comparing the guided model to self-help.
12:00 Ellen Solstad Olavesen · “One size does not fit all”: User perspectives on a digital perinatal intervention
12:15 Ellen Solstad Olavesen · Implementing digital interventions in Maternity and Child Health Services: Attitudes to Evidence-Based Practice and Readiness for Change

Room A

#19 Therapeutic alliance & relationship in blended and online therapy (1/2)

11:15 Carmen Schaeuffele · The Alliance Goes Digital: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Therapeutic Relationship in Blended Care
11:30 Liliana Maria Rodrigues Pedro · Exploring Group Relationships and Therapeutic Alliance in Synchronous Online versus In-Person Unified Protocol Groups
11:45 Lara Bellu · What Makes Therapists Effective in Blended, Transdiagnostic Treatment Settings? An Investigation of Therapist Effects on Mental Health Outcomes, Treatment Length, Dropout, and Their Predictors
12:00 Jorge Osma · Therapeutic Alliance in blended Unified Protocol for the transdiagnostic treatment of emotional disorders: A comparison between face-to-face and App therapists

Room B

#20 Sexual-health & LGBTQIA+ digital interventions

11:15 Cristina Mendes-Santos · Feasibility and Acceptability of Anathema, a Smartphone-Delivered Cognitive-Behavioural Sexual Health Promotion Program for Older Adults: Findings from a Blended-Care Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial in Austria (DERR1-10.2196/46734)
11:30 Cristina Santos · Feasibility and Acceptability of Anathema, a Guided Smartphone-Delivered Sexual Health Program for Colorectal Cancer Survivors: Findings from a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial in Portugal (DERR1-10.2196/46734)
11:45 Florian Jung · Clinical trial on the participatory development and evaluation of an e-mental health intervention for LGBTQIA+ individuals with somatoform, anxiety, and depressive disorders (Queer-EMH-2)
12:00 Andreia A. Manão · ANTHESIS LGB+: Development and Protocol of a Tailored Internet-Based Intervention for Distressing Sexual Function in LGB+ People

Room C

#21 Implementation, scaling & service models for digital mental-health care (3/3)

11:15 Jeanette Halvorsen · A qualitative exploration of implementation of evidence-based, therapist-guided e-therapy within routine child and adolescent mental health in Norway
11:30 Marianne Aalberg · What Makes iCBT Take Off? Organizational Determinants of Successful Implementation of Therapist-Guided Internet CBT for Youth Anxiety
11:45 Martin Kraepelien · Digital psychological self-guided tools in primary healthcare
12:00 Jennifer Apolinário-Hagen · Recommender System Concept to Support Personalized Access to University Mental Health Services

12:15-12:45 2 parallel sessions

Room A

#22 AI applied to social anxiety disorder: feedback & diagnosis

12:15 Tom Van Daele · AI for social anxiety disorder diagnosis: Results and reflections from a scoping review
12:30 Per Carlbring · AI feedback in ICBT for social anxiety: A deception-controlled RCT separating source from expectancy

Room B

#23 Digital interventions for ADHD, paediatric pain and childhood insomnia

12:15 Signe Marie Bandlien · Guiding Families Through Childhood Insomnia: Health Professionals’ Perspectives on the Sleep Well Digital Program
12:30 Lea Schuurmans · Efficacy of the Digital Health Application ORIKO® for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in Adults: Protocol of a Randomized Controlled Trial

12:30-12:45 1 parallel session

Plenary Hall

#24 Therapeutic alliance & relationship in blended and online therapy (2/2)

Shared talk, one presentation by Emilie Dyhr Ulrich, Rie Eg Sell:

12:30 Validating Patient Voices in iCBT: Integrating Quantitative Satisfaction Data and Thematic Analysis in a Feedback-Informed Loop

12:45-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:45 4 parallel sessions

Plenary Hall

#25 ⌘ Internet-Based Interventions Across Development

14:00 Charlotte Ulrikka Rask · My Symptoms Young: An Online Self-help Intervention for Young People with Persistent Physical Symptoms
14:15 Eva Skovslund Nielsen · Digital CBT for Pediatric Functional Abdominal Pain: Understanding the Role of Parents in Treatment Success
14:30 Eva De Jaegere · Feasibility, usability, and preliminary outcomes of Spark, a co-created mobile app for young people with suicidal ideation: A pilot study
14:45 Eva Serlachius · Durability of online behavioural activation for adolescents with mild to moderate depression: a randomised controlled trial
15:00 Fanny Schober (née Dietel) · Digital Health Interventions for Internalizing Disorders in Children and Adolescents: A Meta-Analysis
15:15 Jeannette Brodbeck · Emotion Regulation and Social Information Processing as Intervention Targets in a Guided Prevention App for Emerging Adults with Adverse Childhood Experiences: A Randomised Controlled Trial
15:30 Sara Harmenberg · Tiny Heroes: Co-Development and Pilot Study of an Internet-Based CBT Program for Anxiety in Young Children

Room A

#26 Predictors, mechanisms, personalization & treatment components

14:00 Joachim Kowalski · How online group psychotherapy for procrastination changes brain connectivity
14:15 Pavle Zagorscak · How to report personalized Internet- and mobile- based intervention components: Introducing the ADAPT-I checklist
14:30 Jonathan Torbecke · How to Involve Significant Others in Online Interventions? Integrating Patients’, Significant Others’, and Psychotherapists’ Perspectives
14:45 Mara Campos Pacheco · Computational Cognitive Behavioural Case Formulation for Depression: A Digital Tool for Treatment Personalization
15:00 Mafalda Filipa Lobão de Sousa · A Self-Tailored Guided Internet-Delivered Intervention for Portuguese Higher Education Students with Depression and/or Anxiety Symptoms: A Randomized Controlled Trial
15:15 Diego Fernández-Regueras · Microprocesses Predicting Early Therapeutic Alliance in Videoconferencing and Face-to-Face Therapy

Room B

#27 Prevention, resilience & well-being interventions (1/2)

14:00 Mariebelle Kaus · Who Is Ready for Digital Mental Health Prevention? A Latent Profile Analysis of Awareness of Services, Use Intention, Mental Health Prevention Importance, and eHealth Literacy in a Population-Based Sample
14:15 Anahita Geranmayeh · Culturally Adapted Internet-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Farsi/Dari-Speaking Young Migrants and Refugees with Common Mental Health Problems
14:30 Cristina García Huércano · Developing a Digital Psychological Intervention to Prevent Anxiety, Depression, and Substance Use in Young People: Protocol for the PREVIDAS Project

Room C

#28 Ecological momentary interventions, JITAI and wearable monitoring (1/2)

14:00 Nele A.J. De Witte · Implementing wearables for longitudinal well-being monitoring: feasibility and lessons learned
14:15 Pedro Emanuel Martins Silva Gomes · Ecological Momentary and Just-In-Time Adaptive Interventions for Psychosis: An Ongoing Systematic Review of Design, Content, and Outcomes
14:30 Toon Colman · Monitoring daily stress using wearables and self-report: Investigating data quality and longitudinal patterns in the StressTRACS study

15:45-16:35 Coffee & posters · poster session (14 posters)

Presenters stand by their posters during this break. Posters hang all day.

P01 Mariana Salafranca da Trindade Alves · Designing a Videoconference-Delivered CBT Protocol for Students with Social Anxiety Disorder and Technology-Facilitated Sexual Violence Victimisation: Protocol for a Feasibility Study
P02 Óscar Peris Baquero · Unified Protocol-Based Podcasts for the Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders: A Digital Support Tool for Psychological Interventions in Prison Settings
P03 Jill Bjarke · Predictors of symptom reduction in guided ICBT moderated by referral pathways
P04 Laura De la Coba-Cañizares · FobiApp: Development of a Mobile Application for Self-Administered Exposure Therapy
P05 Amanda Díaz-García · Within-Person Emotional Effects of a Brief Gratitude Intervention: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study
P06 Diana Alexandra Pinto Ferreira · AFECTUS: From Needs Assessment to Development of a Digital Intervention for Sexual Health in Breast Cancer Survivorship
P07 Catarina da Silva Francisco · UP-Prevent: Preliminary outcomes of an online brief preventive adaptation of the Unified Protocol among individuals with subclinical symptoms of anxiety and/or depression
P08 Anton Käll · Tailored ICBT for men suffering from psychological distress linked to prostate cancer
P09 Jennifer K. Kulke · Therapeutic Alliance in Tele-Coaching for Patients Awaiting Psychotherapy: An Observational Study
P10 Fabiana Monteiro · Implementing Be a Mom in the Portuguese National Health Service: Quantitative outcomes from routine perinatal care
P11 Marco Pereira · Psychometric Evaluation of a Child-Friendly “System Usability Scale” in Child-Robot Interaction
P12 Nadja Ruckser · Understanding and Improving Adherence in Internet- and Mobile-Based Interventions: Study Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial Investigating the Potential of Digital Shared Decision Making
P13 Maren Helene Rinke Storetvedt · A feasibility study of a therapist-guided digital mental health intervention for youths with ADHD
P14 Sara Walter · Lost in Translation, saved by Preparation? The Role of Pre-Training and Language Proficiency in Reducing Mental (Work)Load and Fostering Psychological Resilience in the Narrative Serious eMental Health Game Shadow's Edge

16:35-17:50 3 parallel sessions

Plenary Hall

#29 Parenting & caregiver digital interventions

16:35 Amal Saleh Al Ghailani · What should a caregiver app look like in Oman? Lived experience and digital receptivity among parents of children with Down syndrome
16:50 Maria José Lumini · Delivery modalities in digital interventions for family caregivers: mapping strategies and patterns of effectiveness
17:05 Charlotte Rosenbach · Development of a Digital Intervention for Psychologically Distressed Parents: Results of a Feasibility Study
17:20 Karen Hansen Kallesøe · Hand in Hand: Protocol for a Feasibility Study of a Compassion-Focused Self-Help App for Parents of Children Referred to CAMHS

Room A

#30 Evidence synthesis, screening & methods (1/2)

16:35 Alberto Gonzalez-Robles · Do Mobile App-Based Psychological Interventions Work in Primary Care? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
16:50 Julia Radi · Interventions Targeting Future-Oriented Thinking to Improve Mental Health: A Meta-Analysis in Young Adults
17:05 Edna M. Martins · Recruiting for Internet-Based Psychological Trials: Challenges From Two Portuguese iCBT Studies on Social Anxiety and Sexual Health
17:20 Laura de la Coba Cañizares · Efficacy of technology-supported interventions for grief: A systematic review.
17:35 Jiexin Zhang · Co-production and evaluation of a web-based intervention to support healthcare seeking and improve antibiotic stewardship among Chinese and Indian students in the UK: a person-based approach

Room B

#31 AI chatbots, conversational agents & AI-generated mental-health content (2/3)

16:35 Kristofer Vernmark · Adoption of Generative AI among Swedish Psychologists: Results from a National Survey of Intention to Use and Future Integration into Professional Practice
16:50 Jessica Vazzaz · Exploring the Use of a Generative Artificial Intelligence Wellbeing Coach for Sleep Disturbance in Working Adults
17:05 Noah J Marshall · The Rise of AI for Mental Health Support: Using Global Online Search Data to Inform Intervention Design and Implementation
17:20 Gergő Csaba Morvai · Deputy: Bridging the Between-Session Gap Through Clinician-Governed, Voice-Enabled AI

Sunday 11 October09:00-12:00

09:00-09:30 Keynote: David Ebert · Plenary Hall

09:30-10:15 4 parallel sessions

Plenary Hall

#32 Substance-use interventions & behavioural-outcome methods

09:30 Philip Lindner · Long term effects of Digital vs. Face-to-face intervention for alcohol use disorder
09:45 Philip Lindner · A week has but seven days: Conceptual perspectives and an impact simulation study on whether days-based behavioral outcome measures in internet interventions should be considered right-censored

Room A

#33 AI chatbots, conversational agents & AI-generated mental-health content (3/3)

09:30 Tim Vanhove · Limiting AI chatbots in mental health: focus on empathy or on escalation?
09:45 Sylvie Bernaerts · When chatbots become confidants: Exploring real-world use of AI chatbots for mental health support

Room B

#34 Occupational stress, recovery & workplace mental health (2/2)

09:30 Austėja Dumarkaitė · An abbreviated internet-delivered stress recovery intervention for healthcare workers: Feasibility and implications for implementation
09:45 Adina Kreis · Effectiveness and Engagement of an Internet- and Mobile-Based Aftercare Intervention for Return to Work After Inpatient Rehabilitation
10:00 Aliza Janzen-Lympius · The Productivity Costs of Work-Related Stressors in Employees - Secondary Analysis of Individual Participant Data of 16 Randomized Controlled Trials on Internet Interventions

Room C

#35 Ecological momentary interventions, JITAI and wearable monitoring (2/2)

09:30 Natalie Sara Hess · A dyadic-based, AI-driven, just-in-time adaptive intervention mechanism for preventing anxiety and depressive disorders via app: a feasibility study
09:45 Laura de la Coba Cañizares · Expert psychologists’ perceptions and opinions on the design and development of a mobile application including Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) and Ecological Momentary Intervention (EMI): A Qualitative Analysis.

10:15-10:45 Coffee

10:45-11:45 4 parallel sessions

Plenary Hall

#36 Evidence synthesis, screening & methods (2/2)

10:45 Rebekka Büscher · Effects of digital interventions for depression on suicidal ideation – a meta-analysis of individual participant data
11:00 Sophie Dallison · Have digital self-help mental health intervention research studies reached and been adopted by Global Majority young people?
11:15 Livija Ziemiene · Effects of Different Chatbot Types on Youth Mental Health: A Systematic Review
11:30 Tomer Savir · Online Mental Health Screening and Feedback - Why People Use It and How It Impacts Their Pathway to Care: Cross-Sectional Study

Room A

#37 Therapist roles, training & professional adoption of digital tools (2/2)

10:45 Fatma Sahan · Digital Transformation in Musculoskeletal Care: Acceptance Determinants Among Physicians based on the UTAUT Model
11:00 Alena Adiyaman · "Tool, Not Threat": Psychotherapists-in-Training's Perceptions of Digital Health Applications in Psychotherapy
11:15 Eva Van Assche · Helping professionals navigate digital mental health apps: An impact evaluation of the Flemish-Belgian platform Onlinehulp-apps.be
11:30 Fien Buelens · Digital Mental Health Use, Training Needs, and Attitudes Toward a Digital Navigator: A Cross-sectional Survey of European Psychologists

Room B

#38 Adherence & engagement in digital interventions

10:45 Anna Baumeister · Beyond the usual suspects: Uncovering predictors of adherence
11:00 Anna Pyttlik · The Best of Both Worlds? A Qualitative Pilot Study on Barriers and Facilitators to Adherence and Acceptance of the Blended Care Intervention StudiCare Procrastination for University Students
11:15 Markus Høstaker · Developing an Adjunctive Intervention to Increase Adherence to Internet-Delivered CBT: An Intervention Mapping Approach.
11:30 Siobhan Shaw · Designing for Disengagement: Rethinking Engagement in Digital Interventions for Anhedonia and Amotivation

Room C

#39 Prevention, resilience & well-being interventions (2/2)

10:45 Victoria Aminoff · Could internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy be helpful for psychological symptoms related to financials? Findings from a pilot study in Sweden
11:00 Smiti Kahlon · Big Five for mental health: a randomized controlled trial in a Norwegian context
11:15 Sandy Hannibal · XR2ESILIENCE: Conceptual framework and insights into the design of a XR-supported resilience training for nurses
11:30 Orly Sapir-Budnero · Parental Mental Health Change in a Digital Parent Training for Child Behavior Problems: A Network Analysis

11:45-12:00 Closing: Gerhard Andersson (awards & next ESRII host) · Plenary Hall

Generated 2026-09-14 15:28 from the conference planning data. Final programme, version 14 September 2026.