The Department of Developmental and School Psychology covers the fields of lifelong human development and its deviations, evolutionary psychopathology, school and educational psychology, counselling psychology and its applications as well as the sociological foundations of education.
Teaching Subject
The Department covers two branches of psychology. The branch of Evolutionary Psychology has as its teaching object evolutionary psychology and psychopathology, child development up to adolescence and its deviations, socio-cognitive development, new forms of parenthood and the psychology of death and bereavement. The discipline of School Psychology deals with school and educational psychology, psychological assessment, counselling psychology, psychosocial support for children and families and feminist approaches to psychology.
Research Subject
The main research directions of the Department of Developmental and School Psychology are the same as the research interests of the faculty members of the Department. Indicatively, the research activities of the Department focus on self-concept and its developmental variations, bullying and cyberbullying in the school context, gender identities and discrimination and inequalities in education and society, assisted reproduction and new forms of parenthood, psychological assessment methods and the design of intervention programmes in the school context, the importance of early experiences in later development, adoption issues, the goals of
