Dr Lucia Berdondini
Associate Professor
Department of Professional Psychology , School of Psychology
Lucia joined UEL in November 2015, as Lecturer. She is currently the Programme Leader of the DL MSc Humanitarian Intervention and Leader of several modules.
Lucia is passionate about: implementing intercultural counselling training and practice, particularly within international humanitarian psychosocial interventions in countries in war and post conflict. She is also passionate about Existential and Gestalt therapies and their creative applications within intercultural contexts.
Qualifications
- PhD
Areas Of Interest
Counselling, Humanitarian Intervention
OVERVIEW
Lucia joined UEL in November 2015, as Lecturer. She is currently Associate Professor and Course Leader of the DL MSc Humanitarian Intervention. She is also teaching on the BSc (Hons) Counselling.
Lucia is a BACP Accredited Gestalt Psychotherapist since 2003 and she has been working with a variety of clients, individuals and groups, adolescents and adults. Her area of interest are psychosocial intervention in countries in war and conflict; existential therapies; intercultural counselling.
CURRENT RESEARCH
- Phenomenological and Existential Therapies;
- Peace Reconstruction Processes in countries in war and post conflict;
- Co-construction and implementation of intercultural counselling training;
- Social Justice and Psychotherapy;
- Groupwork and social inclusion;
- Bullying and cyberbullying.
PUBLICATIONS
Afghanistan
- Counselling training in Afghanistan: the long term development of the INSPIRE project. Berdondini, L., Kaveh, A. and Grieve, S.. 2019. International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling. 230-239.
- The INSPIRE project: using the 'unknown' to co-construct a training course on humanistic counselling in Afghanistan. Berdondini, L., Grieve, S., Kaveh, A.. 2014. International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling. Springer.
- Counselling training in Afghanistan: the impact of the INSPIRE project. Berdondini, L. Kaveh, A. Greve, S. Submitted . Intervention Journal of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Conflict Affected Areas.
Existential Psychotherapy
- Existential psychotherapies: Similarities and differences among the main branches. Correia, E. A., Cooper, M., Berdondini, L., & Correia, K. 2016. Journal of Humanistic Psychology.
- Characteristic practices of existential psychotherapy: A worldwide survey of practitioners' perspectives, Correia, E. A., Cooper, M., Berdondini, L., & Correia, K.. 2017. The Humanistic Psychologist. 45(3), 217-237.
Brexit
- Brexit and the Counsellor: identity shifts, social responsibility and the therapeutic relationship. Christodoulidi, F., Berdondini, L., Baskerville, V. . 2018. The Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy. 18 (2), 92-99.
TEACHING
BSc (Hons) Counselling
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MSc Humanitarian Intervention by Distance Learning
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