The Creation as a Method of Group Integration of People with ASD

The article is devoted to psychological component of creation and its role in social integration of people with ASD. The analysis of creation as the process and as a result is presented. The author makes a conclusion that a person organizes an inner world and strengthens his/her Self as well as is being integrated into the work group. The application of the Self and the integration into the work group are the main problems for people with ASD. There are two cases which demonstrate reduction of anxiety, rising of personal subjectivity and the building of more differentiated boundaries of Self dew to creation. The work was conducted in the Technological College № 21 in Moscow

The development of trial questionnaire on social exclusion

The article describes the evolution of the phenomenon of social exclusion and methods of its investigation in laboratory conditions. To the best of our knowledge, the diagnostic of social exclusion has been primarily based on external factors till now. This article is devoted to the creation of questionnaire aimed to reveal the psychological experience of social exclusion in natural conditions. Such tool is necessary because it is insufficient to refer only to external conditions of personal exposure to the periphery of social system in order to estimate psychological exclusion, as physical and psychological exclusion do not always coincide. The reliability of our questionnaire is alpha = 0,952. The validity of the tool was checked through the correlation with Leontiev's Test of Sense of Life Orientations. As a result, strong links were found between scales of both tests (0,462<r<0,725; 0,01<p<0,05)

The distortion of social identity structure as a result of social exclusion

The article describes the mechanism of human's interaction with social system through the analysis of its distortion as a result of social exclusion. It was assumed that the impossibility to satisfy basic social needs destroys symbolic links between an individual and a social system. It causes the distortion of the structure of social identity and control over social reality. Third year students of Ecological faculty of People's Friendship University of Russia participated in the experiment. In total there were 49 students from 18 to 22 years old (22 male and 27 female). The social system was imitated in the experiment. Participants were given a task to discuss and draw a plan of city of a dream. Discussion was carried out according to certain rules aimed to limit the ability of some of the respondents to participate in the decision making. As a result, a regressive model was created, proving the influence of impossibility to content basic social needs on social identity structure (R-2 = 0,195; p = = 0,005) and the feeling of control over reality (R-2 = 0,251; p = 0,001)

School Bullying: the Internal Issue and Means for Management

This article provides an overview of national and foreign works on the problem of bullying, which is described as a complex phenomenon. It is a result of systemic pressure and growing intra-group tension on the one hand, and as an effect of victimization and use of violence &mdash; on the other. The complex structure of bullying makes high demands on anti-bullying programs. It should deal with systemic group features and students' personal characteristics. The text provides the analysis of short-term anti-bullying programs. An anti-bullying program plan is proposed, based on the KiVa program, taking into account the specifics of the education system in Russia.</p