Eleana Hadjimina
Miss Eleana Hadjimina (BSc, MSc, MA) is a Licensed School Psychologist (#478), and one of the co-founders of ‘Resilient Lives’, a centre for the social and emotional health of children, adolescents and their families based in Nicosia, Cyprus. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from University College London (UCL), in London, United Kingdom and a Master’s Degree in Child Development from the UCL Institute of Education, University of London. She has also completed a three-year applied postgraduate program in School Psychology at the University of Cyprus, accredited by the International School Psychology Association (ISPA). During her studies she focused on a broad range of topics. Her undergraduate dissertation focused on the mental health literacy of anxiety disorders, and it has been recently published in the Journal of Psychiatry Research. During her postgraduate studies at the IOE she exhibited special clinical and research interest in the study of students motivation at school and investigated the effects of constructing motivation through choice on primary school children’s reading comprehension. Miss Hadjimina has special clinical and research interest in the topic of school bullying and has focused her postgraduate research during her MA in School Psychology on school bullying and victimization among students with physical and cognitive disabilities.
- 99 865772
- eleanahadjimina@gmail.com
Experience
In the past she worked as a psychologist assistant at The Tavistock and Portmant, NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK, where she was involved in a project within the Gender Identity Development Service. She completed her training in School Psychology at the Educational Psychology Services, Ministry of Education and Culture, in Limassol, Cyprus. During that time she gained invaluable experience in psychometric evaluations (using a broad range of psychometric tools), assessments, evaluations and preventions/interventions in emotional, behavioural and learning difficulties. Miss Hadjimina has a lot of experience in designing and implementing hands-on prevention and intervention groups. In August 2017 she co-designed the psychoeducational program “PICNIC of Emotions” along with her coworker Miss Naziry. Since then they have been working together in designing and implementing a number of different hands-on projects mainly focusing in the psychoeducation of children/adolescents, parents/caregivers and teachers both at schools and at the Centre’s premises.