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Elias Kourkoutas, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology and Head of the Interfaculty Post-Graduate Program in Clinical /Educational Psychology in the Department of Primary Education, University of Crete and Co-Chair of the Division of Clinical Psychology of the Greek Psychological Society (ELPSE).
He has obtained his PhD in Clinical Psychology 1995 in the University of Liege, Belgium. His clinical and research interests focus on issues regarding psychotherapeutic and counseling interventions for traumatized children, children with emotional, behavioral, and developmental disorders and work with parents and school professionals. He has taught in many European Universities as Visiting Professor or invited Professor (University of London, Paris-V- Sorbonne, Catholic University of Paris, ULB of Brussels, University of Brighton, University of Rome- La Sapienza, University of Bologna, etc.). He authored and edited many books in English and Greek, and has widely published in peer-reviewed journals in English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish.

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Issues in Childhood and Adolescence Psychopathology: findings from innovative approaches and practices in Diagnosis and Intervention

In this symposium will be presented and discussed papers focusing on critical topics in childhood and adolescence psychopathology, such as emotional/behavioral disorders, eating disorders, ADHD and developmental dysfunctions. Emotional and behavioral or eating disorders in children and adolescents signify a failure to develop the proper internal mechanisms to “regulate” and process negative feelings and emotions, or develop proper coping mechanisms and behavioral patterns, as well as positive self- and other schemata. Specifically, there will be presented and discussed findings from various clinical and research projects associated with a series of innovative interventions (art-based, integrative, child-family treatment, etc.), as well as findings regarding diagnostic issues in a more insightful and psychodynamic way. A European Community funded program (Erasmus+ 2018-1-SE01-KA201-039032) on promoting the psychosocial skills of children with behavioral/hyperactive and developmental disorders referring to a school professionals' training program in art-based techniques will be also presented and discussed.