Vitebsk State University opened a psychological support center

May 17, Vitebsk / Sergey Kochetov - BELTA/. Vitebsk State University named after P. Masherov has enhanced the practical focus of training future psychologists and established a scientific and methodological council for psychology. This was announced today by the Rector of VSU, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Alexander Solodkov at the republican scientific and practical conference "Psychology of Extreme Situations: Problems of Theory and Practice" in Vitebsk, a BELTA correspondent reports. Thus, a psychological assistance center has been opened on the basis of the Faculty of Social Pedagogy and Psychology and the Institute for Professional Development and Retraining. The center offers psychological diagnostics to identify personality traits, determine the causes of developmental deviations, and provides scientifically based interpretation of psychodiagnostic research. Center specialists are ready to provide support in resolving problems and making decisions regarding professional careers, as well as in family and domestic matters. The center intends to actively engage in educational and preventive work, as well as in providing psychological assistance in extreme situations. The structural unit of VSU works not only with university staff and students; residents and guests of the regional center can also use the services of experienced psychologists. In addition, the Department of Applied Psychology has introduced courses to train students in practical skills of providing psychological assistance in extreme situations. The military department has introduced a new military registration specialty "Moral and Psychological Support of Troops in Military and Peacetime Conditions." The work being done to train practical psychologists is being summarized by the scientific and methodological council for psychology established at the university, which is designed to analyze problems and develop recommendations for their resolution. The conference is attended by about 80 scientists and specialists from educational and research centers of Belarus, Russia, and Poland, as well as practitioners from republican medical and rehabilitation institutions, law enforcement agencies, and emergency services. The main goals of the conference are to highlight the problems of ensuring psychological safety of life activities in extreme situations, as well as to define approaches to the creation and application of modern technologies for regulating behavior and activities in extreme situations. The conference addresses issues of human behavior psychology in extreme situations, medical assistance in extreme conditions, and specific features of the activities of emergency services and law enforcement agencies in extreme situations. A separate block is dedicated to discussing the problems of psychological safety in the educational environment, as well as the training of professional personnel for work in extreme conditions. The forum is organized by the Ministry of Education and Vitebsk State University named after P. Masherov. -0-