Prof. Manana Gabashvili
Georgia
Prof. Manana Gabashvili has a diverse academic profile in research across the borders of the three interrelated fields - linguistics, psychology and medicine which involves, inter alia, clinical linguistics & psychotraumatology with the focus on resilience studies. Manana concentrates on the "speechless" (aphasia and neurorehabilitation) and the "unspeakable" (traumatic stress/PTSD and coping). To the same extent, her interests include collective/societal trauma; societal and national resilience. Language of resilience is her recent academic curiosity in the context of the VUCAH world.
Professional experience
Manana has more than 35 years’ experience of research, lecturing and practical work in speech/language assessment and aphasia therapy; around 15 years’ experience of working for international organisations (OSCE and Norwegian Refugee Council-NRC) at different managerial positions, along with delivering lectures in psychotraumatology of conflict- and displacement-affected persons and communities.
Education
Manana holds a PhD in Linguistics from Moscow State Linguistic University (1980). She is certified in Neuropsychology at Lomonosov Moscow State University (1977-1979). She also is a Fulbright alumna in conflict-induced displacement studies (psychological perspective) at the Center for International Development and Conflict Management (CIDCM), University of Maryland at College Park (1997-1998).
Georgia
- Place of Affiliation
Resilience and Wellbeing
- Coping with Stress
- Individual, Community and National Resilience
Migration and Integration
- Forced displacement and psychosocial support of the stress-affected
Aphasia
- Aphasia therapy
- Resilience training for aphasia-affected families, incl. communication training
2020-2024 1
- 2024 - From Compassion to Controversy: Unraveling the Impact of Societal Resilience on the Tapestry of Attitudes towards Ukrainian Refugees. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. Available online 16 February 2024, 104326. In co-authorship with Kaim, Arielle, Kimhi, Shaul, Siman-Tov, Maya, Bankauskaite, Dalia, Baran, Maria, Baran, Tomasz, Cosciug, Anatolie, Eshel,Yohannan, Dumbadze, Salome, Jiglau, George, Kaniasty, Krzysztof, Koubova, Alice, Marciano, Hadas , Matkeviciene Renata, Matichescu, Marius, Scholder, Teperik, Dmitri, Sukhashvili, Jemal, Adini , Bruria. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2212420924000888
- 2023 - A Full-scale Russian Invasion of Ukraine in 2022: Resilience and Coping within and beyond Ukraine. In: “Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being”. 9 July 2023, co-authorship with by Kimhi, Shaul; Kaim, Arielle; Bankauskaite, Dalia; Baran, Maria; Eshel, Yohana; Dumbadze, Salome; Kaniasty, Krys; Koubova, Alice; Marciano, Hadas; Matkeviciene, Renata; Teperik, Dmitri; Adini, Bruria
- 2021 – Aphasia from the Perspective of the Theory of Set (Discussion Paper). In: “Research Papers. Vol. 2”, Psychological Set Research and Correction Centre, Tbilisi State Medical University, 12-23 (in Georgian)
- 2021 – 21st Century Psychology (Review). In: “Research Papers. Vol. 3”, Psychological Set Research and Correction Centre, Tbilisi State Medical University, 29-33 (in Georgian)
- 2021 – “War with Invisible Enemy”- Towards Covid-19’s Psycho-Semantic Analysis, In: “Covid-19 and Psychology”, Psychological Set Research and Correction Centre, Tbilisi State Medical University, 49-55 (in Georgian) - Co-authorship with Natela Imedadze and Anna Vardosanidze 6. 2020 – Resilience during Covid-19. Comparing Displaced and Local Populations (Research paper). GIPA with financial support from GIZ, Tbilisi (Editor) 7. 2020 - From Migration and Integration Challenges to Good Practices: Practitioners’ Perspective“, GIPA-University of Gothenburg, Tbilisi, Siesta. Co-editing with Gregg Bucken-Knapp and Karin Zelano
