Conception and Organizational and Structural Models of Psychological Service in Education

Abstract

The article is devoted to the discussion of the key problems of practical psychology of education and to formulation of the main principles of conception of the psychological service in education, which is considered as one of the most important elements of the whole educational system modernization. Based on the data obtained by the monitoring of the psychological service in Russian education, conducted in 2006-2008, as well as on the analysis of the research materials, the service development strategy is formulated that determines the key directions of its' work till 2020 year. The mechanism of this strategy realization will be formulated as a suggested structural and functional model of the psychological service in education. The variants of organization of psychological service in education on the federal, as well as regional and municipal levels, specified under the regional and other contextual peculiarities, can be applied in creating particular versions of psychological service aimed at the different categories: gifted children and children with special educational needs, orphans and deviant children, children that suffer difficulties in learning, etc. the example of concrete target model of work with child's giftedness is widely described in the article.

Differential Acmeological Approach to The Design of Psychological Support for Professional and Personal Development of Pedagogical University Students

“…The comparative analysis of the approaches to the design of the models of psychological assistance for professional and personal development of university students indicates that the basis of psychological service models of various universities, both humanitarian and technical, is formed by the systemic-activity and integrated approaches [5,18,20]. We must also note the conceptual uniformity of the activities of university psychological service departments.…”

“…The comparative analysis of approaches to the design of psychological assistance for professional and personal development of university students. The comparison was made based on the analysis of the models of psychological assistance and professional and personal development of students functioning in Russian universities, as well as scientific papers covering this issue [2,5,[8][9][10]. The fundamental provisions of the differential acmeological approach were identified using the description method.…”

“…The above-mentioned determines the relevance of the design and implementation of effective models of psychological assistance for self-development and self-realization of youth in the educational environment of universities [5][6][7].…”