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RESEARCH
RESEARCH

ARTICLES

Gkantona, G. (2024). The Construction of the Narrative Self: Applying the Internal Multi-Actor Performance Method for Children (IMAP-C) to Help Children Cope with Emotional Distress. Journal of Constructivist Psychology, 1-17.
Gkantona, G. (2023). My inner world: Analyzing the client’s self-dialogicality with the method of internal multi-actor performance. Journal of Constructivist Psychology36(3), 401-419.
Gkantona, G. (2019). Creating space for happiness to emerge: Τhe processes of emotional change in the dialogical stage model. British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 47:2, 190-199. DOI: 10.1080/03069885.2018.1478059.
Gkantona, G., Ydreou, A., Lefkaditi, E., & Paritsis, N. (2014). Improving Adaptive Functioning in Profoundly Mentally Retarded and Behavior-Disordered ex Hospitalized Adults. A Control Study. Human Systems: The Journal of Therapy, Consultation and Training, Vol. 25:1, pp. 77-86.

 

BOOK CHAPTERS

Gkantona, G. & Ntagkas, F. (under publication). From landscapes of mind to landscapes of polyphony: Composition Work as a method of externalization and reorganization of the Dialogical Self. In M. Pourkos (Ed.).
Gkantona, G. & Ntagkas, F. (2025). Technology Facilitated Sexual Violence in Adolescence: Different Forms of the Phenomenon, Contributors to Perpetration and Victimization and Effects.  In T. Touloupis, A. L. Sofos, & A. Vasiou (Eds.), Students’ Online Risk Behaviors: Psychoeducational Predictors, Outcomes, and Prevention. IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/979-8-3693-4191-9
Gkantona, G. (2018). The dialogical approach to family therapy. In V. Papadioti – Athanasiou & L. Softa – Nall, (Eds.), Systemic family therapy. (p. 229 – 248). Athens, Τopos.

 

RESEARCH REPORT

Gkantona, G. et al., (2024). Online violence against women. Final report of research project. https://www.kethi.gr/ereunes-meletes/diadiktyaki-bia-kata-ton-gynaikon-synoptiki-ekthesi

 

EDITING AND TRANSLATION OF BOOKS

Douglas, B., Woolfe, R., Strawbridge, S., Kasket, E., & Galbraith, V, (2025). Introduction to Counselling. Editing to Greek:  E. karakasidou, Ά. Giovazolias, G. Gkantona, Ε. Nauridi, & G. Τsitsas, Athens: Topos. (The original book was published in 2016 from Sage Publishing, London).
Hermans, H. & Hermans-Konopka, A. (2017). Dialogical Self Theory: Positioning and Counter-Positioning in a Globalizing Society.  Editing and translation to Greek from G. Gkantona, Athens: Parisianou. (The original book was published in 2010 from Cambridge University Press, New York).
McMahon, M. & Patton, W. (2016). Career counselling: A constructivist approach. Editing and translation to Greek from G. Gkantona, Athens: Parisianou. (The original book was published in 2006 from Routledge, London and New York).

 

ARTICLES IN SCIENTIFIC PROCEEDINGS

Gkantona, G. (2015). Are negative emotions signals for changing the self or/and symptoms to be treated? A case example illustrating a dialogical stage model for emotional change. 2nd Joint WPAINA – HSRPS International Psychiatric Congress: Pluralism in Psychiatry II. Multidimensional Considerations. October 30 – November 2, 2014, Athens, Greece. Proceedings edited by C. Soldatos, D. Dikeos, M. Riba, P. Ruiz, D. Bhugra, M. Riba. Medimond Publishing Company, (pp. 75-78), Bologna, Italy.
Gkantona, G., Lefkaditi, E. & Paritsis, N. (2015). Continuous development in social skills in profoundly retarded adults: Is there a case of neuroplasticity? 2nd Joint WPA-INA-HSRPS International Psychiatric Congress: Pluralism in Psychiatry II. Multidimensional Considerations, October 30 – November 2, 2014, Athens, Greece. Proceedings edited by C. Soldatos, D. Dikeos, M. Riba, P. Ruiz, D. Bhugra, M. Riba. Medimond Publishing Company, (pp. 75-78), Bologna, Italy.
Gkantona, G., Idreou, K., & Paritsis, N. (2014). Human Systems Therapy (HST) for individuals with intellectual disability. 1st Joint WPA-INA-HSRPS International Psychiatric Congress: Pluralism in Psychiatry, Diverse approaches and converging goals. November 29 – December 2, 2012, Athens, Greece. Proceedings edited by C. Soldatos, P. Ruiz, D. Dikeos, M. Riba. Medimond International Proceedings, (pp. 155-160), Bologna, Italy.
Gadona, G., Stogiannidou, A. & Kalantzi-Azizi, A. (2006). Reliability and Validity of the College Adaptation Questionnaire in a sample of Greek University students. FEDORA PSYCHE Conference, 8-11 June 2005, Groningen, The Netherlands. Proceedings edited by T. Boekhorst and E. Uildruiks. Internationalization within Higher Education in an expanding Europe. New developments in Psychological Counselling, (pp. 129-134), FEDORA – Louvain-la-Neuve.

 

CONFERENCE PARTICIPATIONS

WORKSHOPS AND SYMPOSIA

Gkantona, G. (2024). Be a Bee: A counselling method of externalization, dialogical construction of the identity and emergence of self-resources. Invited workshop in the 12th International Conference on the Dialogical Self, June 4-7, Tallinn, Estonia.
Gkantona, G. & Viou, M. (2024). Dialogical Self in psychotherapy: Applications and challenges in different therapeutic contexts. Chair of Symposium in the 12th International Conference on the Dialogical Self, June 4-7, Tallinn, Estonia.
Gkantona, G. (2022). Between localization and globalization: The therapist’s positioning and connectedness in a rapidly changing world. Chair of Symposium in the 11th Conference of the European Family Therapy Association: Systemic Resonances and Interferences. 7-10 September, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Gkantona, G. (2021). Implementing the internal multi-actor performance method (IMAP) towards a new identity formation. International Society for Dialogical Science (ISDS). Invited workshop in the digitally conducted 11th International Conference on the Dialogical Self, 7-10 June, Barcelona, Spain.
Gkantona, G. (2019). Physical and Psychological Spaces that Favour Self-Reflection: Identifying my Internal Voices. International Certificate for Collaborative – Dialogic Practices (ICCP). Workshop in the 4th International Congress of Collaborative – Dialogic Practice, 27 – 29 June, Brno, Czech Republic.
Gkantona, G. (2016). The implementation of the Dialogical Stage Model for emotional change in anxiety disorders treatment. International Society for Dialogical Science (ISDS). Invited workshop in the Ninth International Conference on the Dialogical Self, 7 – 10 September, Lublin, Poland.
Paritsis, N. & Gkantona, G. (2010). A new systemic method of intervention in people with severe pervasive developmental disorders for improving their functioning. Workshop in 7th Congress of European Family Therapy Association: «60 years of family therapy, 20 years of EFTA… and after? New ways for systemic practice», 29 – 31 October, Paris.

 

PRESENTATIONS

Gkantona, G. (2024). The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek: Identifying the positive aspects of problematic I-positions in therapeutic processes based on Dialogical Self Theory. 12th International Conference on the Dialogical Self, June 4-7, Tallinn, Estonia.
Ntagkas, F. & Gkantona, G. (2024). Enhancing emotional regulation in children: A dialogical stage model approach in parental education. 12th International Conference on the Dialogical Self, June 4-7, Tallinn, Estonia.
Gkantona, G. (2022). The multiple layers of the client’s request: How does the client position the therapist in a world of insecurity? 11th Conference of the European Family Therapy Association: Systemic Resonances and Interferences. 7-10 September, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Gkantona, G. (2021). Processes of therapeutic change in the implementation of the Polyphonic Drama Method: A dialogical Analysis. 1st Conference of the Association of European Qualitative Researchers in Psychology (EQuiP): Creating Bridges (Online). 16-19 June, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Gkantona, G. (2016). Therapist’s reflecting in metaphoric language: Forming relational analogies between the therapist and the client regarding their inner experience. Ninth Conference of the European Family Therapy Association: From Origins to Originality in Family Therapy and Systemic Practice, 28 September – 1 October, Athens, Greece.
Paritsis, Ν., Gkantona, G. & Lefkaditi, E. (2014). Continuous, “over 6 years, improvement of adaptive functioning in adults with profound mental retardation, through systemic intervention. European Family Therapy Association. 1st European Conference on Systemic Research in Therapy, Education and Organisational Development: Linking Systemic Practice and Systemic Research, 6-8 March, Heidelberg, Germany.
Paritsis, N. & Gkantona, G. (2014). Testing a Law of Optimal Variety and Order for Development, through Action Research on Profound Mentally Retarded Adults. International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS). Learning across Boundaries: Exploring the variety of systemic theory and practice, 28 July – 1 August, Washington, DC, USA.
Gkantona, G. & Paritsis, N. (2010). The application of systemic practice in the enhancement of adaptive behaviour for people with pervasive developmental disorders: A repeated measures study. 7th Congress of European Family Therapy Association: «60 years of family therapy, 20 years of EFTA… and after? New ways for systemic practice», 29 – 31 October, Paris.
Gkantona, G., Stogiannidou, A. & Kalantzi-Azizi, A. (2007). Relationship between Adjustment to University and Characteristics of the Students’ Family of Origin. FEDORA PSYCHE Conference. Crossing Internal and External Borders. Practices for an Effective Psychological Counselling in the European Higher Education, 5-8 September, Rethymnon, Greece.
Gkantona, G., Stogiannidou, A. & Triliva, S. (2004). Relationship Between Perception of Personal Authority and Adjustment of University Students. Psychological Society of Northern Greece. 1st International Conference of the Psychological Society of Northern Greece: “Quality of Life and Psychology”, 3 – 5 December, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Kaftantzi, V., Karakitsou, M., Zotou, T. Chatzi, S., Sarafianou, V. & Gkantona, G. (2004). Women’s stories. A systemic Investigation on Problems of Women Asking for Psychological Help. European Family Therapy Association. 5th European Congress of Family Therapy and Systemic Practice: “Creating Futures- Systemic Dialogues across Europe”, 29 September – 2 October, Berlin, Germany.