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Olga Yeritsidou (In Greek: Όλγα Γεριτσίδου) (born 1955) is a Greek educational psychologist, psychosocial researcher, analyst and author. ==Biography== Yeritsidou was born in Kavala in 1955, the only child of George Geritsidis and his wife Vassiliki, both civil servants. She grew up in Athens where she resides since the age of three. Her father is the main factor in her upbringing and socialization, teaching and instilling in her the concept of social duty and the obligation of man in the amelioration of the social whole, aiming at the daily well-being of absolutely every individual within a state of freedom and Justice. The assassination of her father on November 17, 1973 as well as his citation as one of the official victims of the Polytechnic uprising along with the various incongruencies in the consequences of his death constituted the point of assuming responsibility to further her father’s work and achieve Justice. The trial of the Polytechnic gives her vivid experiences not only during the pre-trial under prosecutor Tsevas but also during the trial itself, where newspapers of the time show her holding the bullet that allegedly killed her father. The sum of these experiences and the subsequent realization of the actual mistrial symbolized by that exact photo are the precursors of her activistic action and research. She studied psychology during the time where that science was yet in its infancy in Greece (there wasn’t even a capacity to obtain a psychology diploma from the Hellenic university) in the American College Deree (1973-1977) with graduate studies at McGill University, Canada (1978-1982) in the Educational Psychology and Counseling department, where she specialized in the maximization of intelligence and academic competence, in job orientation, involving educational curricula and psychosocial research, with special focus in the management of the dynamics of the family. Since her return to Greece she has been working on the amelioration of the quality of education for children of lower and middle socioeconomic classes so that they may have access to the same level of education as that of the higher and highest socioeconomic classes. This effort of hers to improve the socioeconomic status (SES) of the Greeks with an aim of equating them with the higher social strata at least where education, cultivation and occupational potential are concerned was severely fought against with every means possible by the social, state and political mechanism of post-dictatorship (tagged "Metapolitefsi" in Greek historical terms). With the fall of the post-dictatorship (Metapolitefsi) era and the onset of the Memorandum years she has launched a social and legal activism defending the Human Rights of the average Greek Citizen as well as the Constitutional sense of a State of Justice, while at the same time making detailed and in depth analyses of a sociopolitical nature regarding the economic and social forces that brought about this state in Greece, through the prism of social psychology and person-centered approach. She has a daughter, Tanya Maria Geritsidou with whom she cooperates closely on every endeavour. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Olga Yeritsidou」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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