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Greece  

Author(s)

  • Francisco Machado, University Institute of Maia – ISMAI

Abstract

Under the coordination of the Center for Research and Practice of School Psychology (CRSPS), in the Department of Psychology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece has had a considerable boost in the promotion of implementing socio emotional learning (SEL) programmes when following the example of other countries around the world, implementing SEL programmes in Greek schools since the beginning of the 21st century. This research unit became the main developer and coordinator of SEL intervention programmes in the country. The strategy for a systematic implementation of SEL in the Greek educational system was to implement the programme in the university’s curriculum for the professional training of psychologists and teacher’s, thus providing these professionals with the necessary skills to implement SEL based intervention. From that point, SEL interventions flourished across different educational institutions (Hatzichristou et al., 2010; Hatzichristou & Polychroni, 2014; Hatzichristou & Lianos, 2016).

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