Christina Athanasiades graduated from the Department of Philosophy, Pedagogy and Psychology of the Faculty of Philosophy, A.U.Th., with a major in Psychology. Subsequently, she completed a master’s degree in Educational Psychology and Counseling at the University of Houston (M.Ed., University of Houston, Texas, U.S.A.) and a Ph.D. thesis at the School of Psychology, A.U.Th. Her research interests and publications are related to the field of counseling applications in the school community and to issues of gender identities, gender relations and gender discrimination. She has participated in several funded research projects on school bullying, social exclusion and youth unemployment, domestic violence, sexual harassment, and gender equality in education, as well as in training seminars for teachers and parents. Apart from the Aristotle University, she has taught at the University of Macedonia, the University of Thessaly and the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She was for many years Coordinator of the Counselling Psychology Division of the Hellenic Psychological Society (2011-2019), and since 2019 she has been an active member of the Gender Equality Committee and the Scientific Committee of the Children’s Centre of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
My research interests fall into the area of Counseling Psychology and focus on school counseling and the support of vulnerable groups such as women and children. More particularly, my research concerns the study of phenomena that may put students at risk (i.e., bullying, cyberbullying, sexting), the vocational guidance of students, teachers’ training in counseling skills as well as issues related to gender equality in education, the labor market and intimate relations. Lately, I have been involved in a number of research projects regarding teachers’ training in mental health issues, health professionals’ training in domestic violence and abuse and sexual violence and harassment within the university.
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