Dr Izela Tahsini
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Tenured Associate Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tirana, Albania
Email: izela.tahsini@unitir.edu.al
Profile
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Izela Tahsini is a full-time lecturer at the University of Tirana since 2002 and an ECP holder psychotherapist since 2007. Child and family issues are one of her main professional interests. She has been engaged for more than 20 years now in child protection work: directly, through counselling and therapy with adolescents and parents, supervising child protection workers, shelter workers and school psycho-social service staff in their work with children and indirectly, through designing training manuals and conducting trainings, leading research studies, teaching relevant subjects at university, and in coordinating the Master of Science in Child and Family Issues, at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tirana. Dr. Tahsini has also been engaged in various types of consultancy work in collaboration with local and international organizations. She is the author of several research studies on the topic of child abuse and domestic violence, children on the move, child protection system, etc.; manuals on child development and child protection locally and regionally, targeted at various professionals of the child protection system; and of articles and conference papers on child issues.
Research
Publications
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Tahsini, I., Wilkins, D. (2024). The patchy landscape of supervision for child protection professionals in Albania. The Clinical Supervisor. Taylor & Francis.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/citedby/10.1080/07325223.2023.2282018. -
Tahsini, I., Manion, K., & Wright, L. H. V. (2024). Uncovering social and gender norms that perpetuate school-related gender-based violence in Albania. Children & Society, 00, 1–19. https://lnkd.in/dn6PPZJY.