The experience of (tele) infant observation during the Covid-19 pandemic (March 2020–December 2020)

Marie Ange Widdershoven is a Psychologist from the University of Amsterdam and a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist trained at the Hellenic Institute of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy for Children and Adolescents (HACAPP) in Athens. She is a member and supervisor of HACAPP and was delegate for Greece in the European Federation of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (EFPP), in the Child and Adolescent section. In HACAPP she is seminar leader in the Infant Observation Seminar and member of the Educational Board. She worked as an External Supervisor in the Children’s Hospital “Agia Sofia”, Child Psychiatric Department, where she was a therapist and a supervisor, in the early intervention program. She worked for 30 years in the “Doxiadis Diagnostic and Therapeutic Unit for Children and Adolescents” as head of the Child Psychotherapy Department. At this moment, she is the Head of Mental Health and Social Services Department of the “Theotokos Foundation” in Athens. Here she works with children with developmental delays and other disabilities and she leads a prevention and early intervention program. She also worked more than 30 years in Private Practice in Athens.
CONTACT Marie Ange Widdershoven Hellenic Association for Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (HACAPP), Theotokos Foundation, Athens, Greece