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Tsoutsi Vagioula

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Adjunct Academic Staff

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Email

vtsoutsi@uniwa.gr

Academic area

Social Work

 

Teaching modules

  • Practice Placement with Supervision I & II

 

Brief CV 

Vagioula Tsoutsi is a Social Worker, she holds a Master’s degree (MSc) in Mental Health Promotion – Prevention of Psychiatric Disorders by the Medical School of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, where she is also a PhD Candidate doing research on mental health and road safety. She is currently working as a Researcher at the Sleep Research Unit, First Department of Psychiatry, Eginition Hospital, where she is responsible for the organization and management of a research project in the frame of HORIZON-HLTH-2021-CARE-05 [Ensuring access to innovative, sustainable and high-quality health care (2021)]. She is also an external scientific collaborator of the Laboratory Health and Road Safety at the Department of Social Work of the Hellenic Mediterranean University. For the last three years she works for the National Psychosocial Telephone Helpline («10306») providing support and direction, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.   

In the past she has worked for many years as a Social Worker in the field of mental health providing psychosocial support to vulnerable groups. She has worked for five years in a Municipal Social Services Department providing psychosocial support and counselling to vulnerable social groups (i.e., mentally ill, refugees, migrants, minors, homeless etc.). There she conducted Social Surveys in order to include beneficiaries in Social Programs and in Social Structures of the Municipality (Social Grocery, “Housing and Reintegration” Program, Social Pharmacy, Reduction of Municipal Taxes, etc.). In addition, she was responsible for the inclusion of beneficiaries in welfare and social solidarity benefits. In cooperation with the Legal Authorities, she was responsible for child protection, for the detection and management of domestic violence, neglect and abuse and for referrals for psychiatric assessment. In this context, she conducted Social Surveys of living conditions of minors and adults, with the aim of ensuring a safe living environment.

She has participated in Greek and International Conferences with oral and poster presentations and has been awarded with the prize for the best poster presentation at the Panhellenic Conference on Health Promotion and Health Education for her presentation: “Risk factors for the reception of harassment and bullying behaviours in the workplace”. 

Since October 2022 she is participating as an Academic Fellow in the program of the Department of Social Work, University of West Attica, teaching undergraduates.  

She is a member of the Hellenic Association of Social Workers since 2012.

 

 

– PhD Candidate, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (2023).

– Postgraduate Degree (MSc) in “Mental Health Promotion-Prevention of Psychiatric Disorders”, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (2019). 

– Bachelor of Social Work, School of Health and Welfare Professions, Department of Social Work, Hellenic Mediterranean University (former Technological Educational Institute), Heraklion, Crete (2010).

 

 

– Mental health / mental disorders

– Road safety 

– Child protection

– Family functioning / domestic violence detection

 

 

  1. Tsoutsi, V.; Papadakaki, M.; Dikeos, D. Depression and driving, Psychiatriki. 2023. doi: https://doi.org/10.22365/jpsych.2023.014
  2. Tsoutsi, V.; Papadakaki, M.; Yannis, G.; Pavlou, D.; Basta, M.; Chliaoutakis, J.; Dikeos, D. Driving behaviour in depression based on subjective evaluation and data from a driving simulator. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023; 20: 5609. doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20085609
  3. Tsoutsi, V.; Dikeos, D.; Papadakaki, M. The impact of Covid-19 pandemic on family cohesion. Results from an international study. European Journal of Public Health 2021; 31(3). doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckab165.128
  4. Tsoutsi, V.; Dikeos, D.; Pasta, M.; Papadakaki, M. Driving behaviour in depression: Findings from a driving simulator study. Safety 2019 5(4), 70. doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/safety5040070 
  5. M. Papadakak, P. Maragaki,V. Tsoutsi, J. Chliaoutakis. The Department of Social Work at Technological Educational Institute of Crete: Challenges and perspectives for the education of social workers in a period of economic crisis. Social Work. 2015; 119:40-83

 

 

 

Participation at the project «BE-SAFE», in the frame of HORIZON-HLTH-2021-CARE-05 [Ensuring access to innovative, sustainable and high-quality health care (2021)] project funded by the European Commission. In the project Vagioula Tsoutsi functions as a field researcher, and she is a member of the General Assembly (Deputy), Executive Board (Deputy), Trial Committee (Representative). She is also a member of the panel «BMJ Rapid Recommendation on Benzodiazepine and sedative hypnotic deprescription guideline».