Korina Hatzinikolaou

Korina Hatzinikolaou is Assistant Professor of Developmental Psychopathology, at School of Early Childhood Education, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She has also worked as Scientific Adviser at the Office of the National Rapporteur on Trafficking in Human Beings, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hellenic Republic. She is scientific coordinator of the NGO "one child, a world", a community-based structure providing psychosocial support to vulnerable families. She specializes in child typical and atypical development, child protection and prevention and combat of trafficking in human beings.
She read Psychology at the University of Crete, Greece, and she received her PhD in Psychology from Winnicott Research Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Reading. She has lectured Developmental Psychology and Developmental Psychopathology in higher education institutions in Brazil and in Greece and she has conducted research on mother-infant interaction, infant empathy, postnatal depression, child abuse and neglect, among others. As President of the NGO Institute for Psychological Social and Cultural Development "Ψ-polis" has gained experience on Project Management and Third Sector companies. In 2013, she became an independent practitioner of Video Interaction Guidance (VIG) and she is currently a trainee VIG supervisor.
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