Dynamics of Psychology Students’ “Image of a Psychologist” Conception during Education

AbstractThe purpose of the presented study was to investigate how the content of the media images of psychologists is reflected on the psychology students’ self-consciousness and how the “image of a psychologist” changes its content during education. We compared the “image of a psychologist” of university entrants and students of various years of psychological education. The study involved 62 university entrants and 92 students of the first, third and fifth years of psychology education. The “image of a psychologist” portrait characteristics were evaluated by T. Leary's “Interpersonal diagnosis of personality” instrument modified by Sobchik. The “image of a psychologist” positioning in entrants’ and students’ professional identity was investigated by the “multiple identifications” method. The dynamics of the “image of a psychologist” conceptions were explored by the age-slicing method. The results of the study showed that entrants of psychology education had a positive but mythicized “image of a psychologist”. During education the “image of a psychologist” in students’ self-consciousness transformed: it became authentic, true to life, with normal and variant portrait features, as a professional self-identification image. Also during education the “image of a psychologist” lost features of a mentor or guardian and became a real life guide

The impact of gender images in commercials on the self-consciousness of adolescents

Television has a strong impact on gender-identity development. Theoretical analysis shows that the direct perception of different gender characteristics in advertising images has a specific impact on gender self-consciousness, primarily at the unconscious level. The purpose of our study was to uncover features of this impact. In this study, the effects of advertising images on the gender self-consciousness of teenagers were investigated. Two hypotheses were examined:1.Perception of gender images in TV commercials has individual variability and is connected with gender features of self-consciousness (gender type of personality, gender differentiation of consciousness, the specifics of gender identification). 2.Direct perception of gender images in TV commercials has a differential influence on the transformation of verbal (cognitive) and nonverbal (emotive) levels of self-consciousness. The commercials, which were for chocolate, contained different gender types of male and female

The impact of gender images in commercials on the self-consciousness of adolescents

Television has a strong impact on gender-identity development. Theoretical analysis shows that the direct perception of different gender characteristics in advertising images has a specific impact on gender self-consciousness, primarily at the unconscious level. The purpose of our study was to uncover features of this impact. In this study, the effects of advertising images on the gender self-consciousness of teenagers were investigated. Two hypotheses were examined:1.Perception of gender images in TV commercials has individual variability and is connected with gender features of self-consciousness (gender type of personality, gender differentiation of consciousness, the specifics of gender identification). 2.Direct perception of gender images in TV commercials has a differential influence on the transformation of verbal (cognitive) and nonverbal (emotive) levels of self-consciousness. The commercials, which were for chocolate, contained different gender types of male and female

Correction of parent-child relationship through Equine assisted learning "Control and trust"

The equine assisted growth/learning (EAG/L) program "Control and trust" is discussed in this paper. We have designed this program for diagnostic and improvement of parent-child relationships. Our EAG/L program "Control and trust" gives to parents opportunity to discover the attitudes of trust and control in the relationship with their children

Mental health and psychological well-being: development of environmental approach in psychology and education

The article analyses the development of environmental approach to explore personality's wellbeing, health and happiness systems in psychology and education. Revision of one hundred sources about the environmental approach allowed us to reveal the main trends in the development of theoretical and applied areas in psychology, psychotherapy and education. Different viewpoints on interaction mechanisms in the person-environment system in the article were examined

ПСИХОЛОГИЧЕСКИЙ ТУРИЗМ КАК ФАКТОР ВОССТАНОВЛЕНИЯ ЛИЧНОСТНОЙ ИДЕНТИЧНОСТИ И СПОСОБ РАЗРЕШЕНИЯ ВНУТРЕННИХ КОНФЛИКТОВ

Purpose. The article raises the question of the place of psychological tourism in the system of restoring personal identity and resolving intrapersonal conflicts.Method and methodology. Psychological approaches that can reveal the methodology of psychological tourism as a means of psychotherapy for personal disagreements on axiological and ethno-cultural grounds are considered.Results. The results of a pilot study of the possibilities of using psychological diagnostic techniques in the selection of psychological tourist practices in the presence of existing ethno-functional disagreements and internal conflicts of the individual, related to its value orientations are presented.Scope of application. The obtained results open new opportunities for the strategy and tactics of psychotherapeutic work in psychological tourism. In particular, the methodology for diagnosing internal conflicts “The level of correlation of value and accessibility in various life spheres” by H. Phantalova and the technique of diagnosing the degree of ethno-functional consistency of the subject “Severity of emotional attitude to groups of ethnic traits» by A. Sukharev, have a significant practical potential for the implementation of psychological tourism programs.Цель. В статье ставится вопрос о месте психологического туризма в системе восстановления личностной идентичности и разрешения внутриличностных конфликтов.Метод и методология. Рассматриваются психологические подходы, способные раскрыть методологию психологического туризма как средства психотерапии личностных рассогласований по аксиологическим и этнокультурным основаниям.Результаты. Приводятся результаты пилотажного исследования возможностей применения психологических диагностических методик при подборе психологической туристской практики в условиях имеющихся этнофункциональных рассогласований и внутренних конфликтов личности, связанных с ее ценностными ориентациями.Область применения результатов. Полученные результаты открывают новые возможности для стратегии и тактики психотерапевтической работы в психологическом туризме. В частности, методика диагностики внутренних конфликтов «Уровень соотношения ценности и доступности в различных жизненных сферах» Е.Б. Фанталовой и методика диагностики степени этнофункциональной согласованности субьекта «Выраженность эмоционального отношения к группам этнических признаков» А.В. Сухарева, имеют существенный практический потенциал для реализации программ психологического туризма

CROSS-CULTURAL METHODOLOGY IN SPORT PSYCHOLOGY: THE VALUE-NORMATIVE APPROACH

Цель. Статья посвящена анализу феномена спорта, как инструмента формирования национальной и гражданской идентичности, и, в то же время, межкультурной интеграции.Метод и методология. На основании ценностно-нормативного подхода проведен аксиологический анализ спорта, направленный на раскрытие этнокультурных оснований, социально-политических и социально-психологических факторов и механизмов развития этого многопланового явления. Спорт рассматривается с точки зрения его социокультурной детерминации, аксиологического и смыслового наполнения.Результаты. Рассмотрены особенности влияния культурных норм и ценностей на развитие спорта как специфической сферы социального взаимодействия. Анализ генезиса, трансформаций, модификаций спорта показывает его связь с изменениями в социальном контексте его бытования. Показаны возможности рассмотрения спорта в качестве инструмента формирования национальной, гражданской идентичности, наряду с его ролью в межкультурной интеграции.Область применения результатов. Теоретико-методологические положения статьи могут послужить основой для исследовательских разработок по проблемам аксиологии спорта, программ развития психологии и педагогики спортивной деятельности, а также при разработке и преподавании в вузах курсов педагогики, психологии, конфликтологии спорта и спецкурсов.Goal. The article analyzes the phenomenon of sport as a tool for the formation of national and citizenship identity, and at the same time, intercultural integration.Method and methodology. Based on the value-normative approach conducted axiological analysis of sport, aimed at the disclosure of ethnic and cultural grounds, socio-political and socio-psychological factors and mechanisms of development of this multi-faceted phenomenon. Sport is considered in terms of its socio-cultural determination, axiological and semantic content.Results. Features of cultural norms and values influence the development of sport as a specific sphere of social interaction are considered. Analysis of genesis, transformation, modification of sport shows its connection with the changes in the social context of its existence. It is shown that sport can be considered as a tool for the formation of national, citizenship identity, along with its role in the intercultural integration.Application of results. Theoretical conclusions of this paper can provide the basis for researches on the problems of sport axiology and in development of psychology and pedagogy programs of sports activities, as well as in teaching special courses in universities, for example, sport pedagogy, sport psychology, conflict management in sport

Transcatheter transfemoral aortic valve replacement in a patient with acromegaly and severe left ventricular myocardial hypertrophy. Case report

Main causes of secondary hypertrophic cardiomyopathy include acromegalic cardiomyopathy. Heart damage in patients with the acromegaly is mediated both by the direct action of growth hormone and insulin-like growth factor-1, and increased deposition of collagen and lymphomononuclear cells in the myocardium, which leads to architectural changes, disturbances in fluid and electrolyte balance, severe left ventricular myocardial hypertrophy, diastolic and systolic left ventricular dysfunction and chronic heart failure. This article presents the world's first described observation demonstrating the possibility of successful transfemoral aortic valve repair to a comorbid patient with severe aortic stenosis according to the potential risks caused by the active form of the acromegaly