University of Malta

Faculty Member, Centre for Family Studies

Director

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Professor Angela Abela is the Director of the Centre for Family Studies at the University of Malta where she is course director of the Masters in Family Studies. She is also Course Director of the Professional Masters Programme in Clinical, Counselling and Educational psychology within the Department of Psychology. Angela is a clinical psychologist and a UKCP registered family therapist and supervisor. As Past President of the Maltese Psychological Association, she has played a pioneering role in the setting up of the psychology profession in Malta. She is a former chairperson of the National Family Commission and a consultant in the area of children and families for government and the Social Affairs Committee in Parliament.  She supervises professionals working in public social agencies in the area of children and families. On an international level, she has worked extensively as an expert of the Council of Europe in the area of parenting children at risk of social exclusion, and in supporting children and families living in poverty. She has also acted as a consultant for the Children’s Rights on Social Services project of the Council of Europe and also formed part of a team on a project for traumatised children in Georgia. She holds a PhD from the Tavistock Clinic and the University of London and a Masters degree in Clinical psychology from the Université de La Sorbonne Paris V. She has published in the area of children and families and supervision practice and is an associate editor on Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry published by Sage.  She is also an International Advisory Editor of Contemporary Family Therapy: An International Journal, a peer-reviewed journal published by Springer Science.

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