Organizing Committee Member
Stavroula Rakitzi
Clinical Psychologist
Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist
Greece
Biography
Stavroula Rakitzi studied psychology at the Georg-August-University of Göttingen in Germany, where she specialized in clinical psychology. She holds the European Diploma of Psychology. She was trained in cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy in Athens according to EABCT Criteria. Since 2001 she is working as clinical psychologist and since 2003 she is working as a clinical psychologist and cognitive behavioural psychotherapist in private practice. She has promoted the Integrated Psychological Therapy for patients with schizophrenia from 2006-2017 in Greece. She is a trainer in Cognitive behavioral Therapy and in the Integrated Psychological Therapy (IPT) in her private practice in Athens Greece. She developed the IPT postgraduate program for psychologists and psychiatrists in Greece, who has been trained in CBT. She participated als trainer in CBT and in IPT in the Hellenic Society for the training in CBT, in the Institute of Behavioral Therapy and Research in Athens and in the trainings program for Psychiatrists in training in the psychiatric department for adults of the General hospital G. Gennimatas in Athens Greece program from 2009-2017. Her research interests focus on group and individual interventions of cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy generally and especially by schizophrenia and bipolar patients. She participated in many national and international conferences about mental health disorders as speaker and she is an author of papers in greek and international journals and books. She is a member of the Hellenic Society for Behavioral Research and Therapy (www.eees.gr) and the association of german psychologist (BDP) (www.bdp.org)
Research Area
Clinical Psychology, Psychotherapy, Schizophrenia