Research Focus & Expertise

  • Repetitive negative thinking as a transdiagnostic process
  • Interventions to reduce repetitive negative thinking
  • Prevention of mental disorders using app-based approaches
  • Ecological momentary assessment
  • Experimental psychopathology
  • Twin studies

Publications

Funk, J., Kopf-Beck, J., Takano, K., Watkins, E.R., & Ehring, T. (2025). Can an app designed to reduce repetitive negative thinking decrease depression and anxiety in young people? Results from a randomized controlled trial. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 87: 102014. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2024.102014

Funk, J., Takano, K., Babl, M., Goldstein, R., Oberwestersberger, R., Kopf-Beck, J., Rohleder, N., & Ehring, T. (2024). Can an intervention designed to reduce repetitive negative thinking alter the response to a psychosocial stressor? A randomized controlled study. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 178, 104547. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2024.104547

Egan, S. J., Greene, D., Callaghan, T., Raghav, S., Funk, J., Badenbach, T., … Kopf-Beck, J. (2024). Worry and rumination as a transdiagnostic target in young people: a co-produced systematic review and meta-analysis. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/16506073.2024.2369936

Hitchcock, C., Funk, J., Cummins, R., Patel, S. D., Catarino, A., Takano, K., Dalgleish, T., & Ewbank, M. (2024). A deep learning quantification of patient specificity as a predictor of session attendance and treatment response to internet-enabled cognitive behavioural therapy for common mental health disorders. Journal of Affective Disorders, 350, 485-491. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2024.01.134

Funk, J., Kopf-Beck., J., Watkins, E., & Ehring. T. (2023). Does an app designed to reduce repetitive negative thinking decrease depression and anxiety in young people? (RETHINK): A randomized controlled prevention trial. Trials, 24(1), 295. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-023-07295-z

Funk, J. & Ehring, T. (2023). Gefangen im Gedankenkarussell? Wie Grübeln und psychische Gesundheit zusammenhängen. Report Psychologie, 48(4), 10 – 13

Nord, C. L., Longley, B., Dercon, Q., Phillips, V., Funk, J., Gormley, S., Knight, R., Smith, A. J., & Dalgleish, T. (2023). A transdiagnostic meta-analysis of acute augmentations to psychological therapy. Nature Mental Health, 1(6), 389-401. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44220-023-00048-6

Dunning, D., Tudor, K., Radley, L., Dalrymple, N., Funk, J., Vainre, M., Ford, T., Montero-Marin, J., Kuyken, W., & Dalgleish, T. (2022). Do mindfulness-based programmes improve the cognitive skills, behaviour and mental health of children and adolescents? An updated meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials. BMJ Evidence-Based Mental Health, 25(1), https://doi.org/135-142. 10.1136/ebmental-2022-300464

Funk, J., Takano, K., Schumm, H., & Ehring, T. (2022). The Bi-factor model of repetitive negative thinking: Common vs. unique factors as predictors of depression and anxiety. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 77(1), 101781. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2022.101781

Guzey, M., Funk, J., Kustermann, J., & Ehring, T. (2021). The effect of concreteness training on peri-traumatic processing and intrusive memories following an analogue trauma. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 147(1), 103970. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2021.103970

Academic Background

10/2024 – today
Clinical Training, specializing in behavioral therapy (CBT), at the Munich University Institute for Psychological Psychotherapy Training (MUNIP)
07/2024
Psychologist at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich, Ward 4: Young adults + focus on psychotherapy
10/2021 - today
Doctoral candidate at the Chair of Clinical Psychology and Psychological Treatment, LMU Munich
09/2023 – 12/2023
Research stay at the Emotional Development, Interventions and Treatment Lab, Social Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, King's College London, GB
04/2022 – 07/2022
Research stay at the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, UK
04/2021 - today
Research Associate at the Chair of Clinical Psychology and Psychological Treatment, LMU Munich
10/2020 – 02/2021
Research internship at the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, UK
10/2018 – 02/2021
Clinical Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience (M.Sc.) at the LMU Munich
10/2015 – 08/2018
Study of Psychology (B.Sc.) at the Paris-Lodron University of Salzburg, Austria

Scholarships & Awards

  • 05/2023: 1st Poster Prize of the German Psychotherapy Congress
  • 12/2022 - 12/2023: LMU Mentoring Program of the Faculty of Psychology and Education
  • 10/2021 - 10/2024: Doctoral scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation