Developmental Psychology

The postgraduate program is aimed at training highly qualified scientific and scientific-pedagogical staff with the skills of independent scientific analytical thinking, based on a deep understanding of the theoretical and methodological foundations of developmental psychology at all levels of mental organization: an individual, the subject of activity, personality, individuality; as well as the practice of developing methods of psychological diagnostics, support and assistance aimed at optimizing development indicators, taking into account risk factors and resilience in human mental development at all stages of lifecycle.

Advantages:

• academic mobility option
• evening classes option
• content of studies:
  • theoretical, methodological and historical analysis of basic concepts, concepts and studies of mental development;
  • study of objective and subjective factors that promote or hinder the progressive development and achieving of human potential;
  • study of patterns and mechanisms that ensure the possibility of achieving the highest level (acme) of individual development;
  • study of the features of the activities of practical psychologists to support the development of a person as an individual, personality, subject of activity.

Main courses:

• History and philosophy of science
• Foreign language
• Age psychology
• Methodology of psychological science
• Adaptive abilities as identity features
• Acmeological aspects of leadership and management

Research:

• The program entails an in-depth study of the theoretical and methodological basis for the study of age stages in order to reveal patterns and mechanisms, as well as the driving forces and sources of development and formation of the psyche; mastery of age-specific methods of research and diagnosis of human mental development, as well as experience in the development and application of methods for psychological support of development at different age stages and evaluation of their effectiveness.
• Research subjects: age periods of development, driving forces and mechanisms of transition from one age period to another, general patterns and trends, pace and direction of mental development in ontogenesis, risks and factors of deviant development in different age periods, psychological content sequence of stages of ontogenesis, age-related dynamics of mental processes.
• Research objects: a developing, normal, healthy person, changing in ontogenesis, at all levels of mental organization: individual, subject of activity, personality, individuality (baby, child, teenager, young man, adult, elderly person).