Ligia Mariana Mẳcelaru

Lecturer in Counseling
Counseling Studies, Program Coordinator

Education

• MTh, Evanđeoski teološki fakultet, Croatia, 2007
• BTh, Evanđeoski teološki fakultet, Croatia, 2002
• Certified Social Worker, Center of Social Work, University of Timisoara, Romania, 1992

Research Interests

• Building, encouraging and empowering healthy communities able to include and provide for their own children and adults in difficulties such as: poor or dysfunctional families, children and adults with special needs, orphans, war victims;
• Family/couple counseling (premarital, crises intervention, conflict management, communication, etc.);
• Support groups for specific issues: grief and loss, parents of children with special needs, siblings/children of a special needs child/parent

Recent Publications

• “Is the Christ We Represent Relevant Today? A Plea for a Socially Engaged Christianity.” In Marcel V. Macelaru and Corneliu Constantineanu, eds., Theological Pilgrimages. Collected Faculty Papers 2007-2009. Osijek: Evanđeoski teološki fakultet, 2009, 211-234