RUSSIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOR THE HUMANITIES
RUSSIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOR THE HUMANITIES

Family psychology

This program provides a solution to complex issues in the field of education, healthcare, culture and social assistance. The program is offered by the Department of Family and Child Psychology at the Faculty of Psychology of Education of Vygotsky Institute of Psychology.

Areas of occupation: education; socialization; individual and personal development; health; health-saving education technologies; psychological, pedagogical and social support of participants in educational relations.

The key objects of professional activity are factors and mechanisms of continuity of family education, organized forms of education, especially teaching and development of children of different ages.

The key disciplines of the program are: Psychology of family conflict, Systemic family psychotherapy, Fundamentals of family counseling, Psychology of competent parenthood, Psychology of age and family crises, Diagnostics of parent-child relationships, Psychology of premarital relationships, Family issues in empirical research.

Types of occupation: teaching, creating and implementing programs for the formation of parental competence; monitoring the development and educational needs of students; methodological (organizational and methodological support for the implementation of projects and research activities in the field of family psychology); research (planning and conducting applied research of family issues); psychological and pedagogical family support.

Areas of occupation: educational institutions, advisory centers, institutions of continuing education, psychological and pedagogical family support.