Dr Christiana Iordanou

About

Christiana completed an MSc in Sport and Exercise Psychology at Loughborough University, and an MSc in Developmental Psychology and a PhD at Lancaster University. She also has postgraduate qualifications in Drama Therapy and Group Analytic Psychotherapy, as well as extensive clinical experience in numerous mental health settings in the Greek national health service and private sector.

Research interests

Christiana's research interests encompass forensic developmental psychology. She is particularly interested in how different non-verbal interview methods (i.e. drawing, dramatisation) can facilitate young children's eyewitness accounts and how children's own internal characteristics interact with these methods to either facilitate or hinder their reports. Some research questions she has attempted to answer are:

• Does drawing and dramatisation facilitate young children's eyewitness testimony after different time delays?
• Do children's internal characteristics (i.e. temperament, mood, symbolic ability, language ability) interact with different interview methods to facilitate their reports?
• Does the content of children's drawings involve forensically relevant information and how does that change over time?
• Do children's drawings of a past event act as memory aids of that event after a delay?
• Does drawing facilitate adults' memory of an event?

Teaching

• SP305 Introduction to Psychology II
• SP306 Introduction to Forensic Psychology
• SP528 Child Development
• SP581 Advanced Topics in Cognitive Development
• SP852 Developmental Psychology in Professional Practice
• SP637 Forensic Psychology: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives
• SP805 Psychology of Criminal Conduct
• SP806 Psychology of Law and Justice

Professional

Editorial board member of Dramatherapy