Deborah Engesser

Bonifatius Towers, A
18th floor, room 18.13
Phone 06131 17-3232

deborah.engesser[at]uni-mainz.de

Research Areas

  • Health Services Research
  • Outpatient psychotherapy care

Ongoing Projects

  • Evaluation of digital health applications for mental disorders  (DIGAPS) (currently)

  • S3-Guideline Diagnostics, therapy and rehabilitation of patients with severe impairment of personality functioning (LL-SBPF) (completed)

  • Evaluation of the structural reform of the psychotherapy directive (PT-REFORM) (completed)

  • An international phase IV field study for the reliability and validity of the EORTC Thyroid Cancer Module THY34 (EORTC-THY) (completed)

Publications (First authorships)

  • Deborah Engesser, Esther Stalujanis, Pascal Kemmerer, Lena Dotzauer, Sandra Salm, Sandy Scheibe, Karola Mergenthal, Karen Voigt, Susanne Singer
    Psychological psychotherapists' ans physicians' perspective on perceived need for and prescription of digital health applications for mental disorders
    Gesundheitswesen (2026)
    DOI: 10.1055/a-2754-1539
     
  • Deborah Engesser, Susanne Singer, Pascal Kemmerer, Lena Dotzauer, Sandra Salm, Sandy Scheibe, Karola Mergenthal, Karen Voigt, Beate Braun, Elisabeth Imhorst, Jörg Kobes, Karin Lausmann, Caroline Marx, Andrea Petermann-Meyer, Gunnar Reefschläger, Bernhild Wirp, Esther Stalujanis
    Digital Mental Health Applications: For Whom and When (Not)? A Mixed-Methods Study Among Psychotherapists
    Zeitschrift für Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie 54(4):199-210 (2025)
    DOI: 10.1026/1616-3443/a00835
     
  • Deborah Engesser, Susanne Singer, Pascal Kemmerer, Lena Dotzauer
    Role of physicians in psychotherapeutic care
    Public Health Forum 33 (4), 349-353 (2025)
    DOI: 10.1515/pubhef-2025-0073
     
  • Deborah Engesser, Susanne Singer, Pascal Kemmerer, Rainer Paul, Andrea Petermann-Meyer, Katrin Reuter, Lena Dotzauer
    Loads and limits for outpatient psychotherapists after the reform
    Zeitschrift für Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie 70, 283-295 (2024)
    DOI: 10.13109/zptm.2024.70.3.283
     
  • Deborah Engesser, Lena Maier, Markus Schepers, Susanne Singer
    Psychotherapeutic appointments given by Associations of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians in 2019
    An analysis differentiated by appointment type and region
    Bundesgesundheitsblatt 66, 1163-1171 (2023)
    DOI: 10.1007/s00103-023-03756-7
     
  • Deborah Engesser, Lena Maier, Martina Mittag, Klaus Lang, Almut Nagel-Brotzler, Bernhild Wirp, Jörg Kobes, Susanne Singer
    Outpatient Psychotherapy Before and After the Reform of the Psychotherapy Directive of 2017: Data from Practices with and without Psycho-Oncologic Specialty
    Gesundheitswesen 85: 911-917 (2023)
    DOI: 10.1055/a-1955-9811
     
  • Deborah Engesser, Oliver Krauß, Susanne Briest, Jens-Uwe Stolzenburg, Susanne Singer
    Beyond Content Alone: What Cancer Patients Consider as Important in Professional Psychosocial Support
    Psychother Psychosom Med Psychol 71:374-377 (2021)
    DOI: 10.1055/a-1685-0888
     
  • Deborah Engesser, Oliver Krauß, Susanne Briest, Jens-Uwe Stolzenburg, Susanne Singer
    “It’s a foreign word that I have never heard of before”—What cancer patients understand when they hear the term psychosocial support
    A mixed methods study
    Onkologe 25:802-810 (2019)
    DOI: 10.1007/s00761-019-0587-0