Georgia Kiziridou
School bullying has largely grown in the last 10 years on a global scale. However, the appropriate importance has not been given to how life development of those that have been involved in incidents of school bullying in their adult life. What happens when the school bully starts to work? Does he continue to conduct himself in the same manner to his associates and colleagues? Or, because of maturity, he uses his school experience to become a successful and dynamic employee? Finally, does bullying have an expiration date or is it a consolidated pattern of behaviour that changes with difficulty in time? Does bullying exist in the work environment?
Georgia Kiziridou is a Developmental – School Psychologist, MSc, from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Since 2007 she is the owner of a multi-disciplinary centre of Speech, Learning and Behavioral Disorders. Also, she is lecturer at the Mediterranean College of Thessaloniki and her main academic interests are Learning Difficulties, Assessment and Prevention – Health Promotion at schools. Since 2009, she is the co-founder of the company “Play-learning”. The aim of the company is the creation and the e-commerce of special educational tools for students with speech and learning difficulties. She is the creator of the psycho-educational game “Let’ s play with Emotions”. Also, she is a qualified adult instructor from the Ministry of Education.
She took part as a trainer in many adult educational projects (blended, e-learning, live projects) in a variety of fields, such as Family-Systemic Therapy, Gender and Equality, Personal Development, Conflict Management. Moreover, she had been working as school psychologist in public schools since 2012 through innovative actions supervised by the University of Thessaly (e.g. Psychological Support of Immigrant Students) and Ministry of Education (e.g. Member of the Interdisciplinary group as school psychologist for diagnosis, assessment and support for students with difficulties). Last but not least, her voluntary work has to do with Business Mentoring through the corporation of Alexandrion Technological Institute of Thessaloniki and the leadership of multicultural voluntary projects through the collaboration with the NGO ELIX. She is special secretary of the Panhellenic Association of School Psychologists, member of the Femine Greek Business Women, member of the Scientific Association for ADHD and Panhellenic Association of Special Educators.