Pavlina Psychouli

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Dr. Pavlina Psychouli is the Coordinator of the BSc Occupational Therapy Programme of the European University Cyprus (EUC) and Assistant Professor of Occupational Therapy and Neurorehabilitation. .. She completed her bachelor’s degree in the School of Occupational Therapy at the Technological Educational Institute (TEI) of Athens in 2001. She was later awarded a Master's Degree in "Neurological Rehabilitation" from Brunel University in London and completed her PhD at the University of Southampton in UK on “Modified Constraint Induced Movement Therapy (CIMT) in children with congenital cerebral palsy". She has been clinically trained on the application of CIMT by the founder of the treatment, Prof. E. Taub and his team at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in the United States. Dr. P. Psychouli has served as an External Scientific Collaborator of the School of Occupational Therapy at TEI of Athens, between 2008-2015. In 2015, she was employed by EUC in order to design, manage and coordinate the first BSc Programme of Occupational Therapy for Cyprus. Her clinical experience, since 2001, includes a variety of neurological cases and many valuable collaborations with clinics and institutions like ELEPAP of Athens, the Pediatric Department of “Mitera” Private Hospital in Athens etc. Her main research interest focuses on the development and effectiveness of rehabilitation methods that are based in evidence-based motor learning principles. More specifically, upper limb rehabilitation and intensive therapeutic protocols are within her main research scope.

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