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Academic services of psychological support of university education
https://doi.org/10.20913/2618-7515-2023-2-19
Abstract
Introduction. Modern university life is rich in events and problems: it has many difficulties, including such as adaptation to a new environment and the general stress of student / teaching life, etc. The university stress significantly reduces academic performance and negatively affects the psychological well-being of students, teachers and other members of the university community. Purpose setting. The psychological support service of the university is an important additional form of social and psychological protection of a person with support at the educational and / or workplace. It is designed to help the subjects of the educational process to overcome stresses and their consequences that affect educational relationships, the causes of which are both related and not directly related to these relationships. The purpose of the study is to analyze the problems and directions of work of modern academic psychological services. Methodology and methods of the study. The research method is a theoretical analysis of the psychological support of the educational process as a sphere of numerous types of psychological assistance from a person to a person in solving the tasks facing him of coping with crises of personal, interpersonal and educational and professional development. The research methodology is a systematic analysis of the problems and areas of work of the academic psychological service. Results. Academic services can be contacted by clients for getting confidential, personal and professional advice, etc. for their development, assistance in the following areas: immediate relief from stress, identifying strategies for coping with current problems or a crisis, exploring ways for longer-term solutions and larger changes, developing and thinking about next steps, correcting planned routes, etc., developing self-help competencies. Conclusion. Modern academic psychological support services are interdisciplinary, polymorphic, multifunctional and multitechnological structures that are actively developing in the direction of providing assistance and self-help support to people with disorders and requests that are very different in type, form, intensity and mode.
About the Authors
M. R. ArpentievaRussian Federation
Mariam R. Arpentieva – Doctor of Psychological Sciences, Associate Professor, Academician of the International Academy of Education (IAE), Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Natural History (RANH), Honored Worker of Science and Education of the Russian Academy of Natural History, Psychologist-Researcher
44 Dostoevskiy Str., Kaluga, 248000
A. I. Tashcheva
Russian Federation
Anna I. Tashcheva – Candidate of Psychological Sciences, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Personality Psychology and Consultative Psychology, Scientific Supervisor of the Psychological Service of the Academy of Psychology and Pedagogy
116, bldg. 4 Dneprovskiy Lane, Rostov-on-Don, 344056
S. V. Gridneva
Russian Federation
Svetlana V. Gridneva – Candidate of Psychological Sciences, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Depart- ment of General and Pedagogical Psychology of the Academy of Psychology and Pedagogy
116, bldg. 4 Dneprovskiy Lane, Rostov-on-Don, 344056
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For citation: Arpentieva M.R., Tashcheva A.I., Gridneva S.V. Academic services of psychological support of university education. Professional education in the modern world. 2023;13(2):377-385. https://doi.org/10.20913/2618-7515-2023-2-19
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