Curriculum Vitae

Christina Papachristou

Assistant Professor, School of Psychology

Personal Information

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cpapachr@psy.auth.gr
Scopus ID7005498635
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7762-2401

Education

Προπτυχιακές Σπουδές

1997	Πτυχίο Ψυχολογίας Τμήμα Ψυχολογίας ΑΠΘ

Μεταπτυχιακές Σπουδές

2000	Master of Public Health Technische Universität Berlin
2011	MSc Health Economics, Policy and Management London School of Economics and Political Science

Διδακτορικό Δίπλωμα

2006	Dr rer. medic. Charite´ - Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Μετεκπαίδευση

2000 - 2003 Εκπαίδευση στη Συστημική Θεραπεία και Συμβουλευτική, Institut für Systemische Therapie, Berlin

2013 - 2020 Εκπαίδευση στην Ψυχοδυναμική Ψυχοθεραπεία, Berliner Akademie für Psychotherapie

Course Work

Courses of Winter semester of 2025–26 academic year

	SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY
ΨΥ-360	CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY: PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC APPROACHES
ΨΥ-886	THE BODY IN PSYCHOLOGY AND SELECTED ISSUES IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY

Courses of Spring semester of 2025–26 academic year

	SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY
ΨΥ-673	HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY
ΨΥ-886	THE BODY IN PSYCHOLOGY AND SELECTED ISSUES IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY

	Klinikī PSychología
ΚΛΨ-101
ΚΛΨ-105

Theses Supervised

Student Theses within AUTh

In progress

Undergraduate

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Doctoral

Mental Health as a Public Good: The Implementation of Publicly Reimbursed Psychotherapy in Greece – Experiences and Perceptions of Involved Experts, Challenges, and Proposals for Improvement
The Long-term Psychosocial Adaptation and Quality of Life of Living Kidney Donors in Greece: A Multicenter Study

Postgraduate

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2025–2026

Undergraduate

Identity construction of the systemic psychotherapist
Careers of psychodynamic psychotherapists - Professional identity formation, challenges and needs

2023–2024

Undergraduate

«The relational character of transplantation»: The experience of female kidney recipients – a qualitative study
«The relational character of transplantation»: The experience of female kidney recipients – a qualitative study
In search of interoception behind words: A qualitative study on the relation between the speech of Feldenkrais practitioners and the interoceptive awareness ability of students
In search of interoception behind words: A qualitative study on the relation between the speech of Feldenkrais practitioners and the interoceptive awareness ability of students
Somatic and movement approaches for people with eating disorders – the experience of therapists/ educators
University students’ experiences with and knowledge about psychotherapy procedures
“Farewell to time”: Family caregivers of Alzheimer’s patients and the journey of loss
Perceptions of nursing professionals towards donation after circulatory death
Seeing 'inside' Music: a case study. Evaluation of Music Therapy sessions of a child with A.S.D. through the Music Engagement Scale and correlation with the duration and frequency of his eye contact

Postgraduate

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2022–2023

Undergraduate

Ironing the body, reconstructing the psyche: Grounded theory for the experience and the effects of the Feldenkrais method
Physical and Psychosocial Dimensions of the Experience in Feldenkrais Group Online Courses: a Qualitative Approach
The Greek adaptation of the ELPAT Living Organ Donor Psychosocial Assessment Tool (EPAT) and the landscape of the psychological assessment and care of living donors and transplant recipients in Greece
“A common enemy to confront”: The experience and needs of partners of kidney transplant patients
Ambiguity and complexity in the nature and management of chronic pain: The experience of pain physicians in treating patients with chronic pain- A qualitative study
“It defined who I am as a person”; Unfolding the experience of hematological cancer in adolescence

2021–2022

Undergraduate

CULTURAL ADAPTATION OF THE UNIFIED PROTOCOL AND ONLINE APPLICATION OF IT: HOW DO GREEK PEOPLE UNDERSTAND, EXTERNALIZE AND COPE WITH DISTRESS AND WHAT IS THEIR OPINION TOWARDS ONLINE MENTAL HEALTH INTERVENTIONS?
CULTURAL ADAPTATION OF THE UNIFIED PROTOCOL AND ONLINE APPLICATION OF IT: HOW DO GREEK PEOPLE UNDERSTAND, EXTERNALIZE AND COPE WITH DISTRESS AND WHAT IS THEIR OPINION TOWARDS ONLINE MENTAL HEALTH INTERVENTIONS?
The transformation of the partner relationship in couples with a patient with multiple sclerosis.
The experience of working women aiming motherhood through assisted reproduction technologies.
The experience of women in Cyprus regarding the assisted reproduction procedure in the context of employment.
The experience of women in Cyprus regarding the assisted reproduction procedure in the context of employment.
The transformation of the partner relationship in couples with a patient with multiple sclerosis.
The experience of working women aiming motherhood through assisted reproduction technologies.
The effect of dance on mental health and on the self-image of women who recently become mothers
The experience of juvenile idiopathic arthritis in family life: a phenomenologigal study of parents' experience
The effect of dance on mental health and on the self-image of women who recently become mothers
The attitudes of members of the general population towards organ donation after cardiac death (DCD)
The attitudes of members of the general population towards organ donation after cardiac death (DCD)
The somatic and psychosocial experience of individuals participating in Feldenkrais group lessons online during Covid-19 pandemic
The experience of juvenile idiopathic arthritis in family life: a phenomenologigal study of parents' experience
The experience of professional athletes who have suffered a serius injury in relation to body image and self-perception

2020–2021

Undergraduate

Online psychotherapy from the psychotherapists/ perspective – A qualitative study
How do illness representations affect the choice of new technology interventions in young adults with Diabetes Type 1?
The experience of online psychotherapy in clients who underwent in-person psychotherapy in the past: a phenomenological approach
The experience of online psychotherapy in clients who underwent in-person psychotherapy in the past: a phenomenological approach
The „limits“ of Multiple Sclerosis through a body perspective. A phenomenologial approach of changes in the embodied self of patiens with Multiple Sclerosis.
Online psychotherapy from the psychotherapists/ perspective – A qualitative study
Cultural adaptation of the Unified Protocol psychological intervention and its online application in Greece
Surrogacy and the social representation in the eyes of the experts in Greece-Balancing through the progressiveness of the institution, stereotypes, dangers of exploitation and moral satisfaction
Surrogacy and the social representation in the eyes of the experts in Greece-Balancing through the progressiveness of the institution, stereotypes, dasngers of exploitation and moral satisfaction
Cultural adaptation of the Unified Protocol psychological intervention and its online application in Greece

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Undergraduate

Towards a professional identity formation of counselling psychologists in Greece - the journey and the challenges
Careers of cognitive behavioural psychotherapists. Professional identity formation, challenges and needs
The experience of liver transplant recipients in Greece: the journey towards transplantation and postoperative development through a psychosocial lens
Ethical and therapeutic aspects of the use of Artificial Intelligence into the psychotherapeutic practice – A qualitative study on the perceptions of Greek psychotherapists
The experience of brain fog in patients suffering from Long-COVID
"The Daily Struggle with Chronic Pain" The Experience of Pain Physicians in Managing Patients with Chronic Pain - A Qualitative Study

Postgraduate

A qualitative analysis on the experience of psychotherapists treating persons with eating disorders
The group behind the "glass" : An interpretive phenomenological analysis of online group psychotherapy in the time of Covid-19

Research Projects

Coordinator
2021–2026	Attitudes and perceptions of population and of experts involved in the transplantation of organs and tissues towards organ donation after cardiac death

Participant
2019–2027	Psychological Services

Non ELKE AUTh

Coordination

Publications

(2018)

Journal Article

Fendel U., Sandler H., Papachristou Christina, Rose M., Klapp BF. . (2018) . Bodily experiences of inpatients with severe anorexia nervosa during treatment with the Body Monochord: a qualitative interventional study. . The Arts in Psychotherapy . vol.59 p.7-16
Kröncke Sylvia, Greif-Higer Gertrud, Albert Wolfgang, de Zwaan Martina, Erim Yesim, Eser-Valeri Daniela, Papachristou Christina, Petersen Irene, Schulz Karl-Heinz, Tigges-Limmer Katharina, Vitinius Frank, Ziegler Kristin, Künsebeck Hans-Werner . (2018) . Psychosoziale Evaluation von Transplantationspatienten – Empfehlungen für die Richtlinien zur Organtransplantation . PPmP - Psychotherapie · Psychosomatik · Medizinische Psychologie . vol.68 no.05 p.179-184
Massey E., Timmermann L., Ismail S., Lopes A., Duerinckx N., Mapple H., Mega I., Papachristou Christina, Doebbels F. . (2018) . The ELPAT living organ donor Psychosocial Assessment Tool (EPAT): from ‘what’ to ‘how’ of psychosocial screening-a pilot study . Transplant International . vol.31 no.1 p.56-70

(2017)

Journal Article

Hermann H., Grimm A., Klapp BF, Neuhaus R., Papachristou Christina . (2017) . Body experience after liver transplantation: A Body Grid Examination. . Journal of Constructivist Psychology . vol.30 p.295-314

(2014)

Journal Article

Duerinckx N., Timmerman L., Van Gogh J., Buschbach Ismail S., Massey E., Dobbels F., Papachristou Christina, on behalf of the ELPAT Psychological Care for Living Donors and Recipients working group . (2014) . Predonation psychosocial evaluation of living kidney and liver donor candidates: A systematic literature review . Transplant International . vol.27 no.1 p.2-18
Tong A., Hanson C., Chapmann J., Halleck F., Budde K., Papachristou Christina, Craig J. . (2014) . The preferences and perspectives of Nephrologists on Patients’ Access to Kidney Transplantation: A systematic Review. . Transplantation . vol.98 no.7

Book Review

Papachristou Christina . (2014) . Jacob, Marie-Andrée. Matching organs with donors: legality and kinship in transplants. 221 pp., bibliogr. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. £42.50 (cloth) . Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute . v.20 no.4 p.802-803

(2012)

Journal Article

Manyalich M., Menjívar A., Yucetin L., Peri J.M., Torres X., Dias L., Hiesse C., Papachristou Christina, Fehrman-Ekholm I., Kvarnström N., Ballesté C., Paredes D., Revuelta I., Diekmann F., Rimola A., Fondevila C., Martínez M., Legendre C., Pereira R.C., Carvalho I.A., Lopes A. . (2012) . Living Donor Psychosocial Assesment/Follow-up Practices in the Partners' Countries of the ELIPSY Project . Transplantation Proceedings . vol.44 no.7 p.2246-2249

(2010)

Journal Article

Hermann H., Klapp BF., Danzer G., Papachristou Christina . (2010) . Gender-specific differences associated with living donor liver transplantation: a review study. . Liver Transplantation . vol.16 no.3 p.375-86
Papachristou Christina, Klapp BF. . (2010) . The psychological evaluation of the living liver donor. . Acta Gastroenterologica belgica . vol.73 no.3 p.382-388
Papachristou Christina, Walter M, Frommer J, Klapp BF. . (2010) . Decision-making and risk assessment in living liver donation - How informed is the informed consent of donors?: A qualitative study . Psychosomatics . vol.51 no.4 p.312-319

(2009)

Journal Article

Papachristou Christina, Walter M., Frommer J., Klapp BF. . (2009) . A model of risk and protective factors influencing the postoperative course of live liver donors. . Transplantation Proceedings . vol.41 no.5 p.1682-6
Papachristou Christina, Frommer J., Walter M., Klapp BF. . (2009) . Living donor liver transplantation and its impact on the donor-recipient relationship: Results of a qualitative interview study with donors. . Clinical Transplantation . vol.23 no.3 p.382-391

(2006)

Journal Article

Papachristou Christina, Walter M., Frommer Jörg . (2006) . „I would consider it thrice…“; “Ich würde es mir dreimal überlegen…“ - Problemkonstellationen biographischer Arbeit vor und nach Leberlebendspenden. . Psychotherapie und Sozialwissenschaft . vol.8 p.71-93
Walter Marc, Papachristou Christina, Pascher Andreas, Danzer Gerhard, Neuhaus Peter, Klapp Burghard F., Frommer Jorg . (2006) . Impaired psychosocial outcome of donors after living donor liver transplantation: a qualitative case study . Clinical Transplantation . vol.20 no.4 p.410-415

(2005)

Journal Article

Walter M., Pascher A., Papachristou Christina, Danzer G., Langrehr M., Frommer J., Neuhaus P., Klapp B. F. . (2005) . Psychische und somatische Aspekte der Leberlebendspende: Präoperative Evaluation und postoperativer Verlauf . Transplantationsmedizin / Psychosomatik . vol.78 no.10 p.1749-1755

(2004)

Journal Article

Papachristou Christina, Walter M., Dietrich Danzer G., Klupp J., Klapp BF. . (2004) . Motivation for living donor liver transplantation from the donors’ perspective: an in depth qualitative research study. . Transplantation . vol.30 no.6 p.544-50
Walter M., Papachristou Christina, Danzer G. . (2004) . Die Entscheidung potentieller Spender zur Leberlebendspende: Eine inhaltsanalytische Untersuchung zur Ambivalenz und Motivation in präoperativen Interviews. . Z Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie Studium . vol.52 no.2 p.150-167
Walter M., Papachristou Christina, Danzer G., Klapp B F., Frommer J. . (2004) . Willingness to donate: an interview study before liver transplantation . Journal of Medical Ethics . vol.30 no.6 p.544-50

(2003)

Journal Article

Walter M., Dammann G., Papachristou Christina, Pascher A., Neuhaus P., Danzer G., Klapp B.F. . (2003) . Quality of life of living donors before and after living donor liver transplantation. . Transplantation Proceedings . vol.35 no.8 p.2961-3

Book Chapter

Walter M., Papachristou Christina, Pascher A. . (2003) . Leberlebendspende: Entwicklung psychosozialer Parameter bei Spendern nach Resektion und Transplantation eines Leberlappens. . Beiträge der Psychosomatik zur Transplantationsmedizin. . Erim Y, Schulz KH

(2002)

Journal Article

Walter M., Papachristou Christina, Fliege H., Hildebrandt M., Pascher A., Steinmüller T., Neuhaus P., Frommer J., Klapp B. F., Danzer G. . (2002) . Psychosocial stress of living donors after living donor liver transplantation. . Transplantation Proceedings . vol.34 no.8 p.3291-3292

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Christina Papachristou

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Διδακτορικό Δίπλωμα

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Courses of Winter semester of 2025–26 academic year

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Curriculum Vitae

Christina Papachristou

Προπτυχιακές Σπουδές

Μεταπτυχιακές Σπουδές

Διδακτορικό Δίπλωμα

Μετεκπαίδευση

Courses of Winter semester of 2025–26 academic year

Courses of Spring semester of 2025–26 academic year

Student Theses within AUTh

Undergraduate

Doctoral

Postgraduate

Undergraduate

Undergraduate

Postgraduate

Undergraduate

Undergraduate

Undergraduate

Undergraduate

Postgraduate

Non ELKE AUTh

Coordination

Journal Article

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Book Review

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Book Chapter

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Aristotle University of Thessaloniki