Published: October 2024

Keywords:
Dimitris Theodoridis, School, Society, Culture, Linearity, Reflection, Change.

Dimitris Theodoridis

Dimitris Theodoridis is a psychologist with a systemic approach, a graduate of the Department of Psychology of the University of Crete and holds a master's degree entitled "Criminal Law & Addictions" from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has been a member of the Panhellenic Psychological Association (P.P.A.) since 1999 and of the Systemic Association of Northern Greece (S.E.V.E.) since 2007, in the context of which, after his third term on the Board of Administration, he is now President—also a member of EMDR-HELLAS since 2013. In addition to his further training in Systemic Therapy, he has also trained in Addiction Counseling (David Deitch – University of California, San Diego), in Group Dynamics (Climis Naurides – University of Athens), in Administration and Social Planning (Dimitris Iatridis – Boston College), in Trauma therapy with the E.M.D.R. method (Domna Venturatou – trauma therapy Institute).

His professional career was until recently dedicated to the work of the addiction treatment program "I.T.H.A.K.I." (K.E.T.H.E.A.) for more than 18 years. Initially, he was part of the team that created and developed the unit for teenagers of K.E.T.H.E.A. in Thessaloniki. A bit later, he offered therapeutic work to prisoner addicts in various prisons of Northern Greece (Diavaton, Military prisons of Thessaloniki, Kassandra, Trikala, Komotini).

For 12 years, he served consecutively as the head of the adolescent unit KETHEA EMERGENCE, of the Therapeutic Residence Community of "I.T.H.A.K.I." in Sindos and, finally, the Family Support Center, where he worked until recently. All these years, he has been invited to give many speeches in various regions of Central Macedonia with the aim of promoting the work and philosophy of the Therapeutics Communities, while he has represented K.E.T.H.E.A. with his suggestions-researches in European conferences (E.V.O.D.O.R. – Rome, EFTA – Naples). In 2016, he planned and implemented training in the therapeutic community model for the Varna (Bulgaria) rehabilitation centre program workers. Since this year, he has been working privately.

He lives in Thessaloniki with his wife and their two children.

Abstract

The video presents Mr. D. Theodoridis's, president of the administration board of The Systemic Association of Northern Greece, opening speech at the 2024 Metalogos's Conference, "Embracing School Communities."