Kalliroi Papadopoulou

• Ph.D. in Developmental psychology, University of Sussex, U.K.
• B.A. Psycholgy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Η.Π.Α.
• B.A. Psychology, University of Crete

Research interests

• Socioemotional development
• Play
• Parent-child joint activity and interactions
• Daily activities and the development of children
• Applied developmental psychology

Courses and Seminars

• Child development I & II, Thematic workshop “Children and play”, Practicum “Children and play in the preschool context”, Social and emotional development in early childhood.

Graduate

• The social dimension of child development

Selected Publications

• Semin G. R. & Papadopoulou, K. (1990): The acquisition of reflexive social emotions: the transmission and reproduction of social control through joint action. In G. Duveen and B. Loyd (Eds.), Social Representations and the Development of Knowledge. Cambridge: CUP, 107-125.
• Papadopoulou K. (1995): The development of children’s understanding of negative reflexive social emotions. Στο J. Russell, Fernandes-Dols, J.M., Manstead, T. & Wellencamp, J. (eds), Everyday Conceptions of Emotion: An Introduction to the Psychology, Anthropology and Linguistics of Emotion. Dordrecht : Klewer, 333-351.
• Papadopoulou, K. (1999): Promotion of children’s psychosocial development through primary health care services. In J. Tsiantis & Th. Dragonas (Eds) Mothers and infants: psychosocial development in the first two years. Athens: Kastaniotis (in Greek).
• Papadopoulou, K., Tsiantis, J., Dragonas, Th. & Cox, A. (2002). Maternal postnatal well-being and perceived parenting hassles: does community intervention make a difference? International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, 4(3), 13-24.
• Puura, K., Davis, H., Papadopoulou, K., Tsiantis, J., Ispanovic, V., Rudic, N., Tamminen, T., Turunen, M., Dragonas, Th., Paradisiotou, A., Visakou, S., Day, C., Roberts, R. & Cox, A. (2002). The European Early Promotion Project: A new primary health care service to promote children’s mental health. Journal of Infant Mental Health, 23(6), 606-624.
• Davis, H., Dusoir, T., Papadopoulou, K., Dimitrakaki, C., Cox, A., Ispanovic-Radojcovic, V., Puura, K., Vizacou, S., Paradisiotou, A., Rudic, N., Chisholm, B., Leontiou, F., Mantymaa, M., Radosavliev, J., Riga, H., Day, C. & Tamminen, T.  (2005) Child and family outcomes of the European Early Promotion Project. International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, Special Issue: The European Early Promotion Project, 7(1), 63-80.                                                                                           
• Papadopoulou, K., Dimitrakaki, C., Davis, H., Tsiantis, J., Dusoir, T., Paradisiotou, A., Vizacou, S., Roberts, R., Chisholm, B., Puura, K., Mantymaa, M., Tamminen, T., Rudic, N., Radosavljev, J. & Miladinovic, T. (2005).  The effects of the European Early Promotion Project  training on primary health care professionals. International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, Special Issue: The European Early Promotion Project, 7(1), 54-62.
• Tsiantis, J., Papadopoulou, K., Davis, H. & Turunen, M. (2005) EEPP: conclusions, implications and future directions. International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, Special Issue: The European Early Promotion Project, 7(1), 103-110.
• Tsiantis, J. & Papadopoulou, K. (2007) Promotion of children’s early psychosocial development : the implementation of a programme through Primary Health Care Services in the general population. In M. Barry & R. Jenkins (eds) Implementing Mental Health Promotion. Oxford: Elsevier, 286-291, 299-301.
• Papadopoulou, K. & Panopoulou-Maratou, O. (2008). The theory of J. Piaget: thoghts about its social dimension. In J. Tsiantis (Ed) Early childhood psychiatry. Athens: Kastaniotis (in Greek).
• Papadopoulou, K. (2009) The zone of Proximal Developmentin the Theory of  L. S. Vygotsky. Athens: Guttenberg (in Greek).
• Papadopoulou, K. (2010) The emotional dimension of the zone of proximal development. Psychologica Themata, 15-16, 7-18 (in Greek).
• Papadopoulou, K. (2012) Play and learning: the role of self-regulation. Play in learning and teaching mathematics. Proceedings of the 10^th workshop on teaching mathematics (in Greek).
• Papadopoulou, K. (2012) The role of adults in children’s pretend play. Toy Libraries:space for entertainment and communication. Proceedings of international conference (in Greek).
• George Giannakopoulos, Christine Dimitrakaki, Kalliroi Papadopoulou, Chara Tzavara, Gerasimos Kolaitis, Ulricke Ravens-Sieberer & Yannis Tountas (2013) Reliability and validity of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire in Greek adolescents and their parents, Health, 5(11), 1774-1783.
• Petrogiannis, K., Papadopoulou, K. & Papaoudi, D. (2013) Measuring parental beliefs about the developmental significance of preschool children’s daily activities: the Chilren’s Daily Activities Parental Beliefs Scale. Journal of Developmental and Educational Psychology, 3(2), 40-55.
• Giannakopoulos, G. … Papadopoulou, K. (2013) Early childhood educators’ perceptions of preschoolers’ mental health problems: a qualitative analysis. Annals of Child Psychiatry
• Papadopoulou, K., … Giannakopoulos, G. (2014) A qualitative study of early childhood educators’ beliefs and practices regarding children’s socioemotional development. Early Child Development and Care. DOI: 10.1080/03004430.2014.889693
• Ninou, F. & Papadopoulou, K. (2018) The contribution of play to the development and social inclusion of handicapped individuals: the case of toy-libraries. In A. Sideri, E. Deropoulou & K. Papadopoulou (Eds) Research in special education, inclusive education and handicap. Athens: Pedio (in Greek).
• Taoufik, E. & Papadopoulou, K. (2018)  Participation of a child with autism in group play at the Greek kindergarten . In A. Sideri, E. Deropoulou & K. Papadopoulou (Eds) Research in special education, inclusive education and handicap. Athens: Pedio (in Greek).
• Prompona, S., Papoudi, D. & Papadopoulou, K. (2019) Play during recess: primary school children’s perspectives and agency. Education 3-13, https://doi.org/10.1080/03004279.2019.1648534.
• Papadopoulou, K. (2019)  “School work is not play and play is not school work”: children talk about play and lessons at kindergarten. Epitheorisi Ekpaideytikon Thematon, 18, 20-27 (in Greek).