Lab Teaching Staff
acharokopaki@uniwa.gr
Ancient Olive Grove Campus, Building E
Brief CV
Argiro Charokopaki is Laboratory Teaching Staff at the Department of Social Work, University of West Attica and a member of the Research Centre for Social and Humanitarian Crises. Her area of expertise is “Psycho- social Approaches to Career Guidance”.
She has two decades of expertise in implementation of Career Counseling & Guidance. She has served for two years (2021-2023) as a scientific consultant at the Institute of Educational Policy for the implementation of Vocational Guidance and Counseling in Ministry of Education and Religion of Greece. She is an external scientific associate at the European University Cyprus and teaches courses in the postgraduate distance learning programme Vocational Guidance and Counselling (MA), She also supervises dissertations of postgraduate students. She is a member of International Association of Educational & Vocational Guidance and also of Hellenic Society of Counselling & Guidance. Dr Charokopaki has also taught for several years in the postgraduate program in Career Guidance, Counseling and Lifelong Learning (MA) at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and in the postgraduate specialization programme of Counseling and Guidance Program of the Higher School of Pedagogical and Technological Education.
She has published numerous articles in various scientific journals, has published chapters in books/collective volumes and has edited collective volumes. Her research interests focus on career development, career planning and educational career decision-making for secondary school students, higher education students, adults, unemployed, professional integration of people from special and vulnerable social groups, career counselling and design of intervention programmes, enchantment of resilience and entrepreneurship in the same groups. She has served as member of scientific team (researcher) for editing scientific support material for career guidance counselors (for National Organization for the Certification of Qualification and Vocational Guidance (E.O.P.P.EP.), for the Hellenic Chamber of Hotels, for General Secretariat of Education, Training and Lifelong Learning). From the academic year 2023-2024 she is a member of the scientific and editing team for the school textbook of Social and Civic Education for the 5th and 6th grade of primary school in Greece. She is a member of International Association of Educational & Vocational Guidance and also of Hellenic Society of Counselling & Guidance.