Room 6 - Dr. Frosso Motti-Stefanidi

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Abstract

Frosso Motti-Stefanidi is Professor of Psychology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. She is an internationally recognized scholar of immigrant and refugee youth adaptation. Taking a strengths-based approach, she examines immigrant youth adaptation from a resilience perspective. In her work she addresses the question “Who among immigrant and refugee youth adapt well and why? She has developed the Athena Studies of Resilient Adaptation (AStRA) project, which includes two large longitudinal studies of over 2500 middle school students, focusing on the adaptation and well-being of immigrant youth, and of their Greek classmates, in the school context. She received her Ph.D. in 1986 from the Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota. She has received the Distinguished International Alumni Award from the University of Minnesota, has been elected as a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (APS), and serves as a Chen Yidan Visiting Global Fellow at the Graduate School of Education, Harvard University. She is currently serving as President of the International Consortium of Developmental Science Societies (ICDSS), as a member of the Governing Council of SRCD and as a Member of the Council of ISSBD. She has served as President of the European Association of Developmental Psychology (EADP), as President of the European Association of Personality Psychology (EAPP) and as co-chair of SRCD’s International Affairs Committee.

Author

• Frosso Motti, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
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