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Christos D. Androutsos is a graduate of the Medical School of the University of Athens. He specialized in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Department of Adolescent Psychiatry of the "G. Gennimatas” General Hospital of Athens and the Department of Child Psychiatric of the University of Athens at the "Agia Sofia” Children's Hospital. At the end of his specialization (2000), he went to the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience - King's College London, in the UK-http://www.kcl.ac.uk/ioppn/index.aspx, where he completed a Master of Science in Neuroscience (2001) and worked as a full-time research fellow at the Section of Neurobiology of Psychosis (Head: Prof. Sophia Frangou / Division of Psychological Medicine - Chairman: Prof. Robin M. Murray). In this context he has worked in two main research projects:

1) Maudsley Study on Early Onset Schizophrenia.

This was a broad-based, longitudinal clinical study that included neuroimaging, neuropsychological, neurochemical, neurogenic and neuropsychopharmacological approaches.

2) Maudsley Bipolar Disorder Project. At the same time, he also participated as a regular member in the activities of the Psychosis Interest Group as well as in a wide range of educational activities.

Following the completion of his postgraduate studies, Dr. Androutsos returned to Athens and since August 2005 he has joined the National Health System, in which he makes use of the experience and knowledge he has acquired, while he also continued his collaboration with the Institute of Psychiatry as a Visiting Senior Research Fellow.

Since January 2009, he has joined the newly founded Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry of the Sismanoglio General Hospital and has contributed to the establishment of the Adolescent Inpatient Psychiatric Unit, where he is currently working as Head of the unit. This unit provides specialized services for teenagers aged 14-18 with serious psychopathology issues from all over Greece.

The current clinical and research activity of Dr. Androutsos focuses on the psychoses and major affective disorders in adolescence, on Tourette's syndrome and related disorders, and on pediatric psychopharmacology, and it is reflected in a series of publications and presentations in Greek and international scientific journals and conferences. In particular, up to this day, he has published 13 papers (with 235 PubMed Citations) in international journals, 6 publications in Greek journals and books, and 50 scientific presentations, 15 of which in international conferences and 35 in Greek conferences (distinguished participant in 29 of them). In addition, he acts as peer reviewer in a number of accredited scientific journals, including: British Journal of Psychiatry, European Psychiatry, European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He is also a nominated expert of the European Medicines Agency for pediatric psychopharmacology on behalf of the Greek National Medicines Organization.

In addition to the aforementioned trainings, he has attended special courses and seminars which concern, among others, the following fields: Clinical Psychopathology, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Eating Disorders, Autistic Spectrum Disorders, Psychosexual Disorders, Social Psychiatry, Philosophy and Methodology of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy.

As a trainer he participates in the theoretical and clinical education of intern child psychiatrists (since 2005), as a teacher in the MSc Program in Social Psychiatry of the Democritus University of Thrace (since 2009) and in the Course in Clinical Psychopathology "Panagiotis Oulis" of the First Department of Psychiatry of the University of Athens (since 2007), and as a guest speaker in a wide range of educational programs and seminars.

Born in Kos in 1982. In 2005 she graduated from the Department of Psychology of the University of Crete and in 2010 from the MSc Program in Clinical Psychology of the Psychology Department of the University of Athens. Since January 2012, she has been a PhD candidate of the Medical School of the University of Athens and has received a scholarship from the Foundation A.G. Leventis. She speaks English, German and Spanish.

Parallel to her clinical practice, since 2009, she has been a scientific partner of the First Department of Psychiatry of the University of Athens (Eginition Hospital), taking part in educational and research activities, and from September 2011 until December 2014 she was a consultant for external evaluation of the program "Promoting Mental Health in Children and Adolescents”, which was funded by the S. Niarchos Foundation. Since 2009, she has been a trainer at the Course in Clinical Psychopathology of the Eginition Hospital and participates in clinical and neuropsychological studies on bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and anorexia nervosa at the Byron-Kessariani Community Mental Health Center and in the Eating Disorders Unit. She is particularly concerned with the study of cognitive functions in bipolar disorder, which is currently the subject of her PhD dissertation.

In 2010, she received special training at the Institute of Psychiatry (IoP) in London (Maudsley Hospital - King's College London) in Cognitive Rehabilitation Therapy (CRT) in patients with schizophrenia and is now a key member of the pilot group for the implementation of this therapy at the Byron-Kessariani Community Mental Heatlh Center of the First Department of Psychiatry of the University of Athens. She has also been trained in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Cognitive-Analytical Psychotherapy.

Since January 2015, she has been a trainer in clinical courses of the Hellenic Psychiatric Association aimed at general practitioners and psychiatrists, on issues concerning the treatment and management of depression in primary healthcare and the identification and assessment of cognitive dysfunction in mental disorders.

She has presented studies at 15 international and Greek conferences and has made 7 publications in international scientific journals. Three of her papers have been awarded in international and Greek psychiatric conferences: at the 18th Congress of the European Psychiatric Association (EPA), in Munich in 2010, at the 3rd Monothematic Conference of the Greek Psychiatric Association and the World Federation for Mental Health (WFMH), in Athens in 2013, and at the 22nd Panhellenic Congress of Psychiatry, of the Hellenic Psychiatric Association, in Ioannina in 2014.

Born in Athens in 1969. He studied Biology at the University of Athens and then Medicine at the Medical School of the University of Ioannina. He completed his PhD dissertation at the Department of Medicine of the University of Thessaly, in collaboration with the Laboratory of Developmental Neurobiology and Neurochemistry, of the Neurosciences Center at the Institute of Biomedical Research of the Academy of Athens. He was trained for the specialty of Psychiatry at the First Department of Psychiatry of the University of Athens, at the Eginition Hospital. He has also been trained in Mental Health Promotion, Anxiety Disorder Therapies, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (continued) and Neurobiology at the Pasteur Institute.

In the past, he has worked as a specialized psychiatrist in his private practice and as a partner of the Society for Peripheral Development and Mental Health (EPAPSY) in 2010-2011. From 2008 until now he has been working as a research collaborator at the Experimental Neurophysiology Laboratory of the Eginition Hospital. Since 2011 he has been working as a consultant psychiatrist at the General Hospital of Elefsina "Thriasio".

On a voluntary basis, he has also provided medical services to people with a substance abuse disorder as part of the "Doctors of the World" program "Athens Roads", during the periods 2003-2004 and 2006-2007, and as an interconnected partner of the Department of Occupational Medicine of the General Hospital of Elefsina "Thriasio" - voluntary work which included giving speeches to the community, diagnosing and treating uninsured citizens with mental disorders.

He participated in the educational team of the Course in Clinical Psychopathology of the First Department of Psychiatry of the University of Athens, which was supervised by the Associate Professor of Psychiatry Panagiotis Oulis during the academic year 2008-2009. From 2014 until now he has been participating in the teaching team of the Course in Clinical Psychopathology "Panagiotis Oulis", with scientific supervisor the psychiatrist George Konstantakopoulos (First Department of Psychiatry of the University of Athens and Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London). Since 2016, he has also been participating in the teaching team of the Course in Clinical Skills in Psychopathology "Panagiotis Oulis", with George Konstantakopoulos as the scientific supervisor.

He has attended 23 scientific conferences and has made 18 presentations (posters and speeches) in conferences.

He has published 8 papers in international journals and was the author of a chapter of the book Neuroblastoma - Present and Future, Prof. Hiroyuki Shimada (Ed).

He has received the following distinctions and scholarships:

• Scholarship from the Institute of Biomedical Research of the Academy of Athens for his PhD dissertation.
• Funding of his doctoral dissertation by the PENED 2003 program.
• Award-winning presentation: Andreas Florakis, Shalini Johnson and Dimitra Mangoura. ROLE OF PROTEIN KINASE C-EPSILON IN THE NEURONAL DIFFERENTIATION OF EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS. 19th Congress of the Hellenic Society for Neurosciences.
• Honorable mention for his contribution to the operation of the Department of Psychiatry of the General Hospital of Elefsina "Thriasio", in 2012.

George Konstantakopoulos studied medicine at the Medical School of the University of Athens and specialized in psychiatry at the First Department of Psychiatry of the University of Athens, Eginition Hospital. He has also been trained in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and specializes in the Psychotherapy of Eating Disorders. He is a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Athens Medical School.

Ηe has worked as a scientific supervisor of psychosocial programs and as a trainer in training courses for mental health professionals that have been implemented in Greece, Denmark, and Finland as part of the psychiatric reform program "Psychargos". Since 2008, he has been working as a scientific associate of the First Department of Psychiatry of the University of Athens at the Byron-Kessariani Community Mental Health Center and the Eating Disorders Unit. At the same time, he has been a research associate of the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), Kings College London, and of University College
London. His main research interests are: insight (awareness of illness), cognitive functioning, and, in particular, social cognition in mental disorders, meta-cognition, and its relationship to psychopathology.

To date, he has published 95 papers in international peer-reviewed journals and chapters in 6 scientific books. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Psychiatriki, the scientific journal of the Hellenic Psychiatric Association, member of the editorial board of Social Neuroscience and Brain Sciences, Review Editor of the Frontiers in Psychiatry, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the online journal Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience & Mental Health, member of the editorial board of the Greek journal Synapsis, and reviewer in many international scientific journals. Since 2014, he has been the scientific supervisor of the annual post-graduate Course in Clinical Psychopathology of the First Department of Psychiatry of the University of Athens and the University Research Institute for Mental Health (EPIPSY). Since 2016, he has also been the supervisor of another annual postgraduate Course in Clinical Skills in Psychopathology organized by the First Department of Psychiatry of the University of Athens and the Hellenic Psychiatric Association. Moreover, he has been teaching in post-graduate training programs for intern psychiatrists and other mental health professionals and in MSc programs in Greece and in UK.

Everyone in the close circle of his students called him Teacher. Because we all knew that out of his entire body of work, which was very rich, he considered his teaching work and his role as an academic teacher the most important, a role which far exceeded the formal academic tasks and constituted a way of life for Panagiotis Oulis.

He was born in Nafplio in 1956 and he completed his primary and secondary education there. In 1982 he graduated from the Medicine School of the University of Athens. He continued his studies in France, where in 1984 he completed his dissertation in Medicine at Paris VII, while in 1987 he completed his specialization at Paris XII. Then he returned to Athens and he very soon started working at Eginition Hospital as a clinical associate at the Department of Psychiatry. In 1991 he completed his first PhD thesis in the Medical School of the University of Athens, while in 2000 he completed a second PhD thesis in Philosophy of Science in the Department of Methodology, History and Theory of Science (MITHE) of the University of Athens. For the rest of his life, he worked at the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Athens at the Eginition Hospital at various academic and clinical positions. In 2011 he was promoted to Associate Professor of Psychiatry. In 2013 he took the initiative to found the Philosophy of Psychiatry Branch of the Hellenic Psychiatric Association, where he was chairman. The next year the assessment procedure for his promotion to the position of Professor of Psychiatry was commenced, but unfortunately he passed away before it was completed.

His work, apart from monographs and books, includes over 100 publications in international scientific journals and more than 50 in Greek journals. He received 8 awards for his work at international and Greek conferences. He also contributed to the completion of 12 PhD theses either as the supervisor or as a member of the three-member supervising committee, or simply by helping doctoral candidates. All of his students knew that Panagiotis Oulis was the person they could rely on both for his knowledge and experience and for his support at difficult times. He was personally invested in and anxious about the scientific work of others, even more than the people submitting the work.

The focus of his overall research and teaching work was Clinical Psychopathology. From his early years at Εginition Hospital he established an informal annual course in clinical psychopathology for intern psychiatrists and psychologists, which became an official course of the Department in 2004. At the same time, during the first years of the course, in 1996, he published his first Psychopathology book "Elements of Psychiatric Semiology", which is the first book on this subject ever to be published in Greece. This book has served as a manual for many generations of intern psychiatrists and other mental health professionals. In 2004 he wrote a new, larger Manual of Clinical Psychopathology, which in 2009 was republished in a revised and enriched version. This manual has since been the main reading material of the course with the same title.

His second major area of interest was philosophy of science. His relevant thesis was also the subject of his first book, "The Nature of Mental Illness" followed by two other monographs, "Philosophy of Scientific Psychopathology" and "Philosophy and Methodology of Psychiatry, Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy". Besides his monographs, he produced rich work with contributions to chapters of many psychiatric handbooks, as well as philosophical collections, such as "Freud's apple and Newton's unconscious" and "Perspectives and Foundational Problems in Philosophy of Science". He was also the editor of the Greek translation of the book "The Noonday Demon", one of the world's most widely read books on depression.

Since 2004, Panagiotis Oulis’ Clinical Psychopathology course has been an official course of the First Department of Psychiatry of the University of Athens, has gained great reputation and has been completed by thousands of students, psychiatrists, psychologists and other mental health professionals. His students know that: "the Teacher knew us personally and tested us carefully. He allowed us to develop our own way of thinking, to steer clear of trivialities and to think based on facts and in terms of clinical thinking. He helped us to learn how to keep our minds open and exercise critical thinking, even if it meant we went against his own beliefs". He was fond of debate and constructive confrontation. Starting with a small body of students in 2004, in the following years his course was widely acclaimed and, as a result, there was a rapid increase in the number of participants. Since 2004, he also set up and taught at one more annual course, for a smaller number of participants, the "Course in Philosophy and Methodology of Psychopathology".

Since 2014, the “Course in Clinical Psychopathology” is being continued without him according to his wish. However, it is being continued with his name as part of the title as he is always in our thoughts and in our heart. The Course in Clinical Psychopathology “Panagiotis Oulis” is organized every year in his spirit, according to his method and using his manual by the group of his closest students and associates during the last years of his life. Since 2016, a new annual course with his name is being organized by the First Department of Psychiatry of the University of Athens and the Hellenic Psychiatric Association, the Course in Clinical Skills in Psychopathology “Panagiotis Oulis”.

With his work and his way of life, he created a school of thought for the teaching and practicing of Clinical Psychopathology. Physical death cannot put an end to this kind of work. For it is transferred and continued...

All of the work presented and promoted by Psychopathology.gr is inspired by our teacher, Panagiotis Oulis, and dedicated to him.

This site is the online tool for the promotion of many activities aiming to promote knowledge in Psychopathology, the science that studies mental disorders, their clinical manifestations, their etiology, their diagnostic access and their treatment.

Knowledge of Psychopathology is at the core of education for psychiatrists and clinical psychologists and is essential for all mental health professionals. As necessary as this knowledge is, it is also difficult to acquire and transfer. There are many reasons for this. Training in Psychopathology requires a lot of effort and clinical experience. It can only be achieved through the combination of painstaking study and continued communication with the patient. Of course, it requires the presence of the patient, their complexity and uniqueness, the particular interaction with them, which forms the basis for their diagnostic examination and treatment.

On the other hand, psychopathological knowledge today is enriched and renewed at great speed, continuously incorporating new data emerging from clinical research, from treatment trials, as well as from the basic research - neurosciences. The mental health clinician needs to constantly monitor the scientific developments taking place in various scientific disciplines at the same time and constantly altering the body of knowledge that constitutes Psychopathology and each of its individual domains.

All the members of this portal who are engaged in the educational activities presented at Psychopathology.gr try to cover many of these needs. Our activities aim to offer reliable, effective and comprehensive training and retraining of specialists in applied Psychopathology, namely in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders. For this purpose, we try to promptly integrate every scientific development into our teaching and every new instrument in the process of training mental health professionals.

Psychopathology.gr is an important milestone in our efforts because it greatly enriches the teaching tools we use with various e-learning methods offered by the Internet. The students of our seminars will also attend the on-line training course through the e-class. In the future, those who wish to will be able to follow clinical training courses and seminars online on our Webinars platform.

We aspire that Psychopathology.gr will be an online portal dedicated to lifelong training in Psychopathology, useful for any mental health practitioner and especially for young people who are now acquiring clinical experience. Here, they can find information about our activities, download useful material, subscribe to seminars, clinical training courses and webinars and attend e-learning training programs.

Ο Χρήστος Δ. Ανδρούτσος είναι πτυχιούχος της Ιατρικής Σχολής του Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών. Ειδικεύτηκε στην Παιδική και Εφηβική Ψυχιατρική στο Τμήμα Ψυχιατρικής Εφήβων του ΓΝΑ «Γ. Γεννηματάς» και την Παιδοψυχιατρική Κλινική του Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών στο Νοσοκομείο Παίδων «Αγία Σοφία». Με την ολοκλήρωση της ειδίκευσής του (2000) μετέβη στο Ινστιτούτο Ψυχιατρικής του Πανεπιστημίου του Λονδίνου (Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience - King’s College - University of London – UK-https://www.kcl.ac.uk/ioppn/index.aspx), όπου πραγματοποίησε Μεταπτυχιακές Σπουδές στις Νευροεπιστήμες, έλαβε τον τίτλο Master of Science in Neuroscience (2001) και εργάστηκε ως επιστημονικός συνεργάτης-ερευνητής πλήρους απασχόλησης (full-time Research Fellow) στο Τμήμα Νευροβιολογίας των Ψυχώσεων (Section of Neurobiology of Psychosis - Head: Prof. Sophia Frangou / Division of Psychological Medicine - Chairman: Prof. Robin M. Murray). Στο πλαίσιο αυτό εργάστηκε σε δύο κυρίως Ερευνητικά Προγράμματα:
1) Μελέτη της Σχιζοφρένειας με Πρώιμη Έναρξη του Ψυχιατρικού Νοσοκομείου Maudsley (Maudsley Study on Early Onset Schizophrenia).
Επρόκειτο για μια ευρεία διαχρονική κλινική μελέτη που περιελάμβανε νευροαπεικονιστικές, νευροψυχολογικές, νευροχημικές, νευρογενετικές και νευροψυχοφαρμακολογικές προσεγγίσεις.
2) Μελέτη της Διπολικής Συναισθηματικής Διαταραχής του Ψυχιατρικού Νοσοκομείου Maudsley (Maudsley Bipolar Disorder Project).Παράλληλα συμμετείχε ως τακτικό μέλος στις δραστηριότητες της Διεπιστημονικής Ομάδας Μελέτης των Ψυχώσεων του Ινστιτούτου Ψυχιατρικής (Psychosis Interest Group) καθώς και σε ένα ευρύ φάσμα εκπαιδευτικών δραστηριοτήτων.

Με την ολοκλήρωση του μετεκπαιδευτικού αυτού κύκλου ο κ. Ανδρούτσος επέστρεψε στην Αθήνα και από τον Αύγουστο του 2005 εντάχθηκε στο Εθνικό Σύστημα Υγείας, στα πλαίσια του οποίου αξιοποιεί μέχρι σήμερα τις προσκτηθείσες εμπειρίες και γνώσεις, ενώ συνέχισε την συνεργασία του με το Ινστιτούτο Ψυχιατρικής ως Visiting Senior Research Fellow.

Από τον Ιανουάριο 2009 εντάχθηκε στο νεοσύστατο Τμήμα Ψυχιατρικής Παιδιών και Εφήβων του Σισμανογλείου ΓΝΑ, και συνέβαλε στην δημιουργία της Μονάδας Ψυχιατρικής Νοσηλείας Εφήβων, στην οποία εργάζεται μέχρι σήμερα ως Διευθυντής ΕΣΥ, Υπεύθυνος της Μονάδας. Η Μονάδα αυτή παρέχει εξειδικευμένες υπηρεσίες για εφήβους 14-18 ετών με ιδιαίτερο σοβαρή ψυχοπαθολογία, από όλη την Ελλάδα.

Η τρέχουσα κλινική και ερευνητική δραστηριότητα του κ. Ανδρούτσου εστιάζει στις ψυχώσεις και τις μείζονες συναισθηματικές διαταραχές της εφηβείας, το σύνδρομο Tourette και τις συναφείς προς αυτό διαταραχές, και την παιδιατρική ψυχοφαρμακολογία, αντανακλάται δε σε σειρά δημοσιεύσεων και ανακοινώσεων σε ελληνικά και διεθνή επιστημονικά περιοδικά και συνέδρια. Συγκεκριμένα, μέχρι σήμερα έχει 13 δημοσιευμένες εργασίες (με 235 PubMed Citations) σε διεθνή αξιολογημένα περιοδικά, 6 δημοσιεύσεις σε ελληνικά περιοδικά και συγγράμματα, και 50 επιστημονικές ανακοινώσεις, εκ των οποίων 15 σε διεθνή συνέδρια και 35 σε ελληνικά (πρώτο όνομα στις 29). Επιπροσθέτως, εκτελεί χρέη αξιολογητή (peer reviewer) σε σειρά επιστημονικών περιοδικών πρώτης γραμμής μεταξύ των οποίων περιλαμβάνονται: British Journal of Psychiatry, European Psychiatry, European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Ψυχιατρική, Ψυχιατρική Παιδιού και Εφήβου. Είναι επίσης διαπιστευμένος σύμβουλος (nominated expert) του European Medicines Agency για θέματα παιδιατρικής ψυχοφαρμακολογίας, εκ μέρους του Εθνικού Οργανισμού Φαρμάκου.

Πέραν των ανωτέρω αναφερομένων μετεκπαιδεύσεων, έχει παρακολουθήσει ειδικά μετεκπαιδευτικά προγράμματα και σεμινάρια τα οποία μεταξύ άλλων αφορούν τα πεδία: Κλινική Ψυχοπαθολογία, Γνωσιακή Συμπεριφορική Θεραπεία, Ψυχαναλυτική Ψυχοθεραπεία, Διαταραχές Πρόσληψης Τροφής, Διαταραχές Αυτιστικού Φάσματος, Ψυχοσεξουαλικές Διαταραχές, Κοινωνική Ψυχιατρική, Φιλοσοφίας και Μεθοδολογίας της Ψυχιατρικής και της Ψυχοθεραπείας.
Ως εκπαιδευτής, συμμετέχει στην Θεωρητική και Κλινική Εκπαίδευση των Ειδικευομένων Παιδοψυχιάτρων (από το 2005), ως διδάσκων στο Μεταπτυχιακό Πρόγραμμα Σπουδών στην Κοινωνική Ψυχιατρική του Δημοκρίτειου Πανεπιστημίου Θράκης (από το 2009) και το Μετεκπαιδευτικό Σεμινάριο Κλινικής Ψυχοπαθολογίας «Παναγιώτης ουλής» της Α ́ Ψυχιατρικής Κλινικής του Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών (από το 2007), και ως προσκεκλημένος ομιλητής σε μεγάλη σειρά από εκπαιδευτικά προγράμματα και σεμινάρια.

Ο ιστότοπος αυτός είναι το διαδικτυακό μέσο προώθησης πολλών δραστηριοτήτων για την προαγωγή της γνώσης στην Ψυχοπαθολογία, την επιστήμη που μελετά τις ψυχικές διαταραχές, τις κλινικές εκδηλώσεις τους, την αιτιολογία τους, τη διαγνωστική τους προσπέλαση και τη θεραπευτική τους αντιμετώπιση.

Η γνώση της Ψυχοπαθολογίας αποτελεί τον πυρήνα της εκπαίδευσης των ψυχιάτρων και των κλινικών ψυχολόγων και είναι απαραίτητη σε όλους τους επαγγελματίες ψυχικής υγείας. Όσο απαραίτητη είναι η γνώση αυτή, τόσο δύσκολο είναι να αποκτηθεί και να μεταδοθεί. Πολλοί λόγοι συμβάλλουν σε αυτό το πρόβλημα. Η εκπαίδευση στην ψυχοπαθολογία απαιτεί μεγάλη προσπάθεια και κλινική εμπειρία. Δεν γίνεται παρά με συνδυασμό επίπονης μελέτης και επίμονης ενασχόλησης με τον ασθενή. Απαιτεί φυσικά τον ίδιο τον ασθενή παρόντα, την πολυπλοκότητα και τη μοναδικότητά του, την ιδιαίτερη αλληλεπίδραση με αυτόν, που αποτελεί τη βάση για τη διαγνωστική του εξέταση και τη θεραπεία του.

Από την άλλη πλευρά, οι ψυχοπαθολογικές γνώσεις στις μέρες μας εμπλουτίζονται και ανανεώνονται με μεγάλη ταχύτητα, ενσωματώνοντας συνεχώς νέα δεδομένα που προκύπτουν από την κλινική έρευνα, από τις δοκιμές θεραπειών αλλά και από τη βασική έρευνα – τις νευροεπιστήμες. Ο κλινικός της ψυχικής υγείας πρέπει να παρακολουθεί συνεχώς τις επιστημονικές εξελίξεις που προέρχονται από πολλούς επιστημονικούς κλάδους παράλληλα και μεταβάλουν διαρκώς το σώμα γνώσεων που συνιστά την Ψυχοπαθολογία και τον κάθε επιμέρους τομέα της.

Σε πολλές από αυτές τις ανάγκες επιχειρούμε να ανταποκριθούμε όλοι εμείς που ασχολούμαστε με τις εκπαιδευτικές δραστηριότητες που παρουσιάζονται στο Psychopathology.gr. Οι δραστηριότητές μας αφορούν την έγκυρη, αποτελεσματική και σφαιρική κατάρτιση και επανακατάρτιση ειδικών στην εφαρμοσμένη ψυχοπαθολογία, δηλαδή στη διάγνωση και τη θεραπεία των ψυχικών διαταραχών. Προσπαθούμε γι’ αυτό τον σκοπό να ενσωματώνουμε έγκαιρα κάθε επιστημονική εξέλιξη στη διδασκαλία μας και κάθε νέο μέσο στη διαδικασία κατάρτισης επαγγελματιών ψυχικής υγείας.

Το Psychopathology.gr αποτελεί ένα σημαντικό σταθμό στις προσπάθειές μας γιατί διευρύνει κατά πολύ τα μέσα διδασκαλίας που χρησιμοποιούμε, με διάφορες μεθόδους e-learning που προσφέρει το διαδίκτυο. Οι σπουδαστές των σεμιναρίων μας θα παρακολουθούν παράλληλα το πρόγραμμα εκπαίδευσης διαδικτυακά μέσα από το e-class. Πολλοί ενδιαφερόμενοι θα μπορούν στο μέλλον να παρακολουθούν κλινικά φροντιστήρια και σεμινάρια εξ αποστάσεως μέσω διαδικτύου στην πλατφόρμα μας Webinars.

Φιλοδοξούμε το Psychopathology.gr να αποτελεί πλέον ένα διαδικτυακό κόμβο αφιερωμένο στη συνεχιζόμενη κατάρτιση στην Ψυχοπαθολογία, χρήσιμο σε κάθε επαγγελματία ψυχικής υγείας και ιδιαίτερα σε νέους που τώρα αποκτούν κλινική εμπειρία. Εδώ μπορούν να ενημερώνονται για τις δραστηριότητές μας, να λαμβάνουν χρήσιμο υλικό, να εγγράφονται για συμμετοχή σε σεμινάρια, κλινικά φροντιστήρια και webminars και να εκπαιδεύονται μέσω e-learning.

Το φανταστήκαμε τα τελευταία δύο χρόνια, ενώ οργανώναμε και υλοποιούσαμε σεμινάρια και κλινικά φροντιστήρια.
Το ζητούσαν επανειλημμένα οι σπουδαστές μας για καλύτερη ενημέρωσή τους και πρόσβαση σε εκπαιδευτικό υλικό.
Το σχεδιάζαμε πολύ καιρό τώρα ώστε να επιτελέσει ένα βήμα μπροστά στην εκπαίδευση ψυχιάτρων, ψυχολόγων και άλλων επαγγελματιών ψυχικής υγείας.