Glossary

Abbreviation/ term	Meaning/ Explanation
ACT	Assertive Community Treatment
BfArM	Federal Institute for Pharmaceuticals and Medical Products
BMBF	Federal Ministry of Education and Research
BMFSFJ	Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth
BMG	Federal Ministry of Health
CHCR	Centre for Health Care Research
CHIMPS	Centre for Children of Mentally-Ill Parents
CMD	Common Mental Disorders
CRC	Collaborative Research Center
CRT	Crisis Resolution Team
CRU	Clinical Research Unit
CV	Curriculum Vitae
DFG	German Research Foundation
DGKJP	German Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
DGPPN	German Society for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics and Neurology
DG-Sucht	German Society for Addiction Research and Addiction Therapy
DRV Bund	German Federal Pension Fund
DSM-5	Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
DVG	Digital Healthcare Act
DZIG	German Center for Infection Research
DZNE	National Neuroimaging Network
DZSKJ	German Centre for Addiction Research in Childhood and Adolescence
EEG	Electroencephalography
EIS	Early Intervention Service
EMG	Electromyography
EmPeeRie NoW	Empower Peers to Research
ERC	European Research Council
EX-IN	Experienced Involvement: Individuals who have experienced mental health problems effectively support others going through similar crises (on the basis of appropriate training/curriculum)
G-BA	Federal Joint Committee of Health Insurances/ Agencies, authorized to make binding regulations based on health reform bills passed by lawmakers, along with routine decisions regarding healthcare in Germany
GCMH	(Proposed) German Centre for Mental Health
HAM-NET	Hamburg Network for Health Services Research
HBSC	Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children
HCC.HITT	Hamburg Center for Child Healthcare Innovation, Translation and Treatment
HCHE	Hamburg Centre for Health Economics
HCHS	Hamburg City Health Study
HBS	Hamburg Brain School
HiTOP	Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology
HCNS	Hamburg Centre of Neuroscience
HRQoL	Health-Related Quality of Life
IC-TACT	Integrated Care incl. Therapeutic Assertive Community Treatment
IfP	Institute for Psychotherapy
LPE	Regional association of service users
LApK	Regional association of carers
MEG	Magnetoencephalography
MH-TRN	Mental Health Translational Research Network Hamburg
MCT	Metacognitive Training
MPIB	Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
MRI/ MRT	Magnetic Resonance Imaging/ Magnetic Resonance Tomography
NCATS	National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
NIH	National Institutes of Health
OCD	Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
PCC	Patient-centred care
Peer(s)	Individuals with own experience of mental illness or experienced as relatives/ carers; actively involved in one or more of the following activities: peer support, conducting research, being part of a research, or other institutional participatory advisory boards
PEPP	Reimbursement system for psychiatric and psychosomatic hospitals in Germany
PI	Principle investigator
PREM	Patient-reported experience measures
PRINCE	Prenatal Identification of Children’s Health
PROM	Patient-reported outcome measures
PTA	Training Institute for Clinical Psychologists
PTM	Power Threat Meaning Framework
PTSD	Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
RCT	Randomised controlled trial
RDoC	Research Domain Criteria
RKI	Robert Koch Institute
SDM	Shared decision-making
SE	Supported Employment
SMI	Serious Mental Illness
SP	Supportive psychotherapy
SPMI	Severe and persistent mental illness
SSDs	Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders
TMS	Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
TRR	Transregio (DFG funding type)
UCL	University College London
UHH	University of Hamburg
UKE	University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf
VR	Virtual Reality
WG	Working Group
WHO	World Health Organisation
yCHCR	Young Centre for Health Care Research
ZIS	Centre for Interdisciplinary Addiction Research