AREAS OF ACTIVITY OF THE INSTITUTE
The Institute's training system includes:
- training under additional professional education programs (improvement, advanced training, retraining) of specialists
Additional types of training beyond the curriculum for educational programs of additional professional education (courses, practical classes, seminars, trainings, etc.)
Training in individual educational programs aimed at improving the educational level of students (students, graduate students, trainees).
POST-GRADUATE TRAINING OF DOCTORS, PSYCHOLOGISTS, TEACHERS, SOCIAL WORKERS, etc.
Short-term seminars and trainings, long-term programs in various areas of psychotherapy, clinical psychology and their application in the clinic and private practice.
Primary specialization (professional retraining) in psychotherapy.
Postgraduate retraining (in Moscow and the regions) of psychologists, educational psychologists, bachelors of psychology, 4th and 5th year students of psychology departments (in parallel with basic training) in the specialty "Clinical Psychology" for work in the healthcare system and private practice with various specializations.
DOCUMENTS ON THE RESULTS OF TRAINING
A certificate of advanced training is issued after completing more than 72 hours at a time. training
A certificate of advanced training with an insert is issued upon completion of training over 120 hours. training for one academic year. This rule does not apply to documents based on the results of long-term programs, which are issued after completing the entire program, and it is possible to sum up the hours of training accumulated over 2-3 years.
A diploma of professional retraining for the right to conduct a new type of activity without assigning qualifications is issued upon completion of programs over 250 hours; an insert indicating the subjects and hours is attached to the diploma.
A diploma of professional retraining with the assignment of qualifications is issued upon completion of programs over 1000 hours; an insert indicating the subjects and hours is attached to the diploma.
PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PSYCHOTHERAPY CARE
Center for psychological consultation "Psigrad" - Practical application of individual and organizational counseling.
RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
Fundamental research in the field of depth psychology, connections between practical medicine and clinical psychology
Research on the influence of psychological factors on business growth
Development of strategies for psychological assistance and psychotherapy for people who have experienced severe stress
Preparation and testing of rehabilitation and prevention programs for special contingents providing assistance in emergency situations or working in extreme situations
Determination of psychological factors involved in the formation of pathology in pregnant women and the fetus
Creation of methods of psychological support for pregnant women and women in labor
Psychotherapy of secondary infertility and recurrent miscarriages
Psychotherapy for somatic and psychosomatic diseases
Psychotherapy in a psychiatric clinic, combined use of psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy
PUBLISHING ACTIVITY- Publishing scientific and popular books on psychotherapy, psychology, medicine and pedagogy
CREATION OF EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS in various areas of psychotherapy and MUSICAL AND TRANCE AUDIO PROGRAMS for conducting psychotherapeutic sessions.
PRINCIPLES OF WORK OF THE INSTITUTE
Systematic approach to problems of human knowledge; theoretical and methodological interconnectedness, integrity of the research problems being solved; compliance with the modern scientific paradigm, high reliability and validity of empirical interpretations and data obtained; methodological accuracy and validity, adequacy and accuracy of work methods.
High quality of training; using the best ideas in working with students and listeners; heuristics, comprehensive nature of services, reliability of results, person-oriented approach, respect for each person.
Exceptional attention to the requirements and wishes of the customer; focus on long-term partnership and high responsibility for the work performed, prompt action; establishing feedback; compliance with warranty obligations and confidentiality of information obtained during the interaction.
The Institute offers the opportunity to complete training in accordance with an individual schedule, as well as attend individual seminars of your choice, which allows you to combine training with work.
Distinctive feature of the Institute of Psychotherapy and Clinical Psychology- practical orientation of training. After retraining, the specialist graduates not only with a fundamental theoretical knowledge base in psychotherapy and psychology, but also with practical counseling skills. All students undergo mandatory personal therapy from the Institute’s teachers (practical psychologists, psychotherapists and psychiatrists).
Head of the Department – Doctor of Psychological Sciences, Professor N.D. Tvorogova
CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY – a new psychological specialty
Clinical psychology is a broad-based psychological specialty that is intersectoral in nature and involved in solving a set of problems in the healthcare system, education, and social assistance to the population. A clinical psychologist can work in mental health centers, hospitals, consulting rooms, etc., or have a private practice (not to be confused with a psychiatrist!). For example, he may deal with people who complain of anxiety, expressed in functional disorders of the emotional or sexual plane, or of difficulties in coping with the problems of everyday life.
In 2000, the State educational standard for higher professional education in clinical psychology was approved in the Russian Federation and the training of specialists corresponding to it began in our country. The specialist is called upon to perform the following types of professional activities: diagnostic, expert, correctional, preventive, rehabilitation, advisory, research, cultural and educational, educational.
The name of the specialty is associated with the word “clinic”, the Greek origin of which suggests the meaning: klinikos - bed, kline - bed. The modern meaning of the word is: a place where people come for individual examination, diagnosis and/or treatment. In this general sense, the term covers physical and psychological aspects. Usually, qualifying words are added to the word to make the orientation of the clinic clear, for example: behavioral clinic (specializes in behavior therapy, behavior modification), child education clinic (specializes in psychological problems of children), etc. In this context, the word “clinical” means: ( 1) an individual approach to psychological work with this particular person; (2) a type of therapeutic practice that relies on subjective, at the same time scientifically verified decisions of the clinician (the work of a psychologist with each client who comes to him for help is unique); (3) an approach to research conducted by a psychologist for scientific purposes, relying on a small number of subjects examined in a natural setting (as opposed to an experimental approach). It is in this sense that the word “clinic” gave rise to the name “clinical psychology.”
In its theoretical concepts, clinical psychology is based on a holistic approach to a person, the concept of “health” (and not just the concepts of “disease”, “pathology”), the idea of individual responsibility for one’s health; on a family approach to providing psychological assistance to the client, taking into account the social context of his life.
The strategic “targets” of the professional activity of a clinical psychologist are the mental “objects” to which the psychologist’s influence is directed in the process of his work with the client. A clinical psychologist deals with the difficulties of adaptation and self-realization of his clients.
The causes of maladjustment may be related to physical (congenital or imaginary physical defects, chronic disease, consequences of injury or surgery, etc.), social (divorce, loss of job, change of profession, moving to a new place of residence, etc.), mental (emotional tension, fear, resentment, etc.) and spiritual (loss of meaning in life, devaluation of habitual life goals, changes in the value system, etc.) state. Responding to the challenges of life in its various spheres, a person has to adapt to the changes occurring in his body, his mental life, his financial situation, his social life, etc. This adaptation is achieved through the restructuring of his psychological reality, changes in the motivational sphere, value orientations , goals, by modifying one’s behavior, changing mental and behavioral stereotypes, social roles, correcting self-image, etc. In the process of adapting to changes in life, a person masters new functions (professional, home, social, etc.). Adaptive behavior is useful behavior that helps one to adapt; in everyday life it is considered reasonable and normal. Maladaptive behavior patterns are associated with mental distress.
In the process of adapting to a dynamic, constantly changing life, a person has to compensate for the loss of certain of his capabilities (physical, social, etc.) in order to maintain his usual functions. Compensation is replenishment, compensation, balancing. Freud believed that an individual uses compensation to make up for a lack of something. In Adler's theory, compensation was seen as the main mechanism by which a person overcomes feelings of inferiority. In a difficult situation for himself, a person is constantly looking for resources to preserve functions that are important to him, to compensate for disrupted functioning mechanisms, thereby maintaining the stability of his psyche, personality, and ego.
However, an individual has the opportunity not only to adapt to life thanks to the mechanisms of adaptation and compensation, but also to protect himself from it, for example, by consciously adapting life to oneself, making it more stable, “adjusting it to oneself” (conscious social practice is one of the most important characteristics of activity personality, its resource for maintaining its mental well-being in a changing world). By incarnating externally, making personal investments in people, objects, living and inanimate nature, a person strives to change the world of things and people, while maintaining his individuality unchanged. In a situation of threat, the personality includes a dynamic complex of protective and adaptive mechanisms (which have already become habitual or develop a new complex). In clinical psychology, psychological defense is any reaction, any behavior that eliminates psychological discomfort, protects the spheres of consciousness from negative, traumatic experiences. One of the productive methods of protection is successful social practice aimed at changing the environment (biological and social) of living (development of new laws, rules, traditions, development of science and technology to make one’s life easier, finding pleasant people and maintaining friendships with them, etc. .) and preventing the development of tendencies unfavorable for humans in it.
The tasks of a clinical psychologist include assisting his client on the path of his adaptive self-change, providing assistance in finding resources to compensate for his losses. And on the path of social practice (and related creativity), a person often needs the help of a clinical psychologist in finding psychological resources for it and in receiving social support.
A client who comes for a consultation with a psychologist may demonstrate problems associated not only with his maladjustment, but also problems accompanying the processes of self-realization. The model of adaptive behavior does not describe all types of personality activity. To describe the subjective well-being (psychological health) of an individual, the following indicators are most often used (M. Jahoda, 1958): self-acceptance, optimal development, growth and self-actualization of the individual; psychological integration; personal autonomy; realistic perception of the environment; the ability to adequately influence the environment. These indicators of well-being can be considered as the target function of psychological assistance to a client with any of his requests, with any current conflict or problem.
Characteristics of the training of clinical psychologists
at the First Moscow State Medical University named after. I.M.Sechenova
The focus of the training of clinical psychologists is on the implementation of the Federal State Educational Standard;
Harmonization of the training of clinical psychologists with European standards;
Availability of professionally trained teaching staff;
Availability of the material and technical base necessary for the educational process (including a computer class, purchased psychodiagnostic techniques, a package of methods for processing psychodiagnostic examinations; there is a psychological training room and an office for individual consultations for students; there is a self-study room equipped with a personal computer with access to Internet);
Students' internships take place in University clinics;
The university offers postgraduate studies in psychological sciences;
The main aspects that highlight the training of clinical psychologists at the First Moscow State Medical University named after. I.M.Sechenova
Clinical psychologists prepare primarily for work in health care and medical (pharmaceutical) education;
The training of clinical psychologists at the university is carried out not only by highly professional psychologists, but also by leading representatives of medical specialties;
The training is aimed at developing professional competencies that allow the graduate of the department to begin practical activities;
Practical training of students is combined with fundamental psychological training;
Students have the opportunity to use the unique information resources of the University’s Fundamental Library without leaving their home;
While mastering the specialty, students are offered the opportunity to receive individual psychological consultations and participate in group training sessions;
Over the years of study, psychology students have the opportunity to make friends among future doctors, pharmacists, registered nurses, social workers;
Based on the results of completing research work from the 2nd year, students who have achieved success in it are invited to take part in student scientific conferences in the 4th-5th year;
After graduating from the university, graduates have the opportunity to become a member of the Russian Psychological Society (its Moscow branch), which has more than 100 years of history (formed in 1885), and take part in the work of its section “Health Psychology” (headed by Prof. N.D. Tvorogova ).
Characteristics of Friendly Faculty
Between the First Moscow State Medical University named after. I.M. Sechenov and Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov, after the opening of the department of clinical psychology at the First Moscow State Medical University in 2010, a cooperation agreement was concluded (students of the department of clinical psychology of the First Moscow State Medical University named after I.M. Sechenov have the opportunity to listen to lectures by leading professors of the Faculty of Psychology of Moscow State University);
The Faculty of Psychology of Moscow State University, along with the Faculty of Psychology of St. Petersburg University, are the first faculties to begin training professional psychologists in the USSR. The Faculty of Psychology of Moscow State University is characterized by a scientific school that has become the leading one in the USSR, the Russian Federation, and recognized by the international scientific community;
First Moscow State Medical University named after. I.M. Sechenov is historically connected with Moscow State University, being a successor to the Faculty of Medicine of the Moscow Imperial University (the old name of Moscow State University);
After the start of training psychologists at the Faculty of Psychology of Moscow State University, professors and clinics of the First Moscow State Medical University named after I.M. Sechenov (in 1966, when the training of professional psychologists began in the USSR - the First Moscow State Medical University had a different name) participated in their specialization in medical psychology. Currently, graduates of the Faculty of Psychology of Moscow State University and its graduate students form the basis of the teaching staff teaching various psychological disciplines at the First Moscow State Medical University.
Characteristics of training psychologists that are not found in other universities
First Moscow State Medical University named after. I.M. Sechenov is the oldest and universally recognized medical university in the country, which has proven the high quality of training of specialists there; Currently it is a leading university under the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation;
First Moscow State Medical University named after. I.M. Sechenov has a long tradition of studying the human psyche (at the end of the 19th century, a psychological laboratory was opened, headed by Prof. Tokarsky; the Korsakov psychiatric clinic has a long tradition of studying mental phenomena; in the Soviet period, it had a psychodiagnostics laboratory, headed by Prof. Berezin; professors Sechenov, Anokhin, Sudakov worked at the Institute of Human Physiology, creating a unique scientific school that contributed to the understanding of psychophysiological processes, etc.);
At the First Moscow State Medical University named after. I.M. Sechenov in 1971, immediately after the first graduation of professional psychologists in the USSR, the first department of medical psychology in the country's medical universities was opened, which successfully adapted the psychologists accepted to work there to the requirements of medical science and practice, to the requirements of medical education; became the leading base for improving the psychological and pedagogical qualifications of teachers at medical and pharmaceutical universities of the USSR; prepared her own model of psychological training for health care organizers, laid the foundations for the psychological training of registered nurses and family doctors, who for the first time in the USSR began to be trained within the walls of Sechenovka, became in 2011. basic department of the department “Clinical Psychology”;
Currently, professional training of clinical psychologists in senior years of the department takes place at the bases of unique university clinics;
Students of the department from health care organizers teaching at the First Moscow State Medical University named after. I.M. Sechenov, have the opportunity to obtain information about promising areas of work for clinical psychologists in reformed healthcare institutions;
Already on the student bench, students of the department can present their coursework and diploma works at scientific conferences not only of a psychological profile, but also of medicine;
The training of clinical psychologists at our medical university is headed by a Doctor of Psychology, who has academic psychological training at the Faculty of Psychology of Moscow State University (specialized in neuropsychology, a student of Prof. A.R. Luria) and devoted her entire professional life to pedagogical work within the walls of the First Moscow State Medical University. THEM. Sechenov (Member of the Moscow House of Scientists of the Russian Academy of Sciences, full member of the International Academy of Informatization and the American Academy of Sciences, Education, Industry and Arts (California), Academician of the International Academy of Psychological Sciences; has the highest qualification category in the specialty "Psychotherapy", member of the Presidium of the Moscow Psychological Society, honorary professor of the Faculty of Psychology of Moscow State University, member of the Presidium of the UMO for classical university psychological education. Since 1998, for five years - member of the doctoral council for rehabilitation medicine at the I.M. Sechenova, since 2007 - member of the doctoral council on medical psychology at Moscow State University; since 2011 - chairman of the educational and methodological commission on clinical psychology of the Educational Institution for Medical and Pharmaceutical Education of Russian Universities, member of the Committee on Psychology and Health (SC on Psychology and Health); European Federation of Psychological Associations (EFPA), member of the Ethics Committee of the RPO, chairman of the section “Health Psychology” of the Moscow Psychological Society. Awards: medal of the 850th anniversary of Moscow, badge “Excellence in Health Care”, in 2012 the prestigious “Golden Psyche” award and diploma of the Russian Psychological Society “For the best textbook in psychology”, etc.);
Applicants who have entered the young department of the oldest medical university in the country and have successfully mastered the general educational program in clinical psychology have a chance to be among those who lay down the traditions of the Sechenovka brotherhood of psychologists, have a chance, thanks to their caring position and creative attitude towards mastering the specialty, to participate in development of the department of clinical psychology of the First Moscow State Medical University, laying down traditions that will contribute to the high quality of training of clinical psychologists within the walls of the medical university.
SPECIALIZATIONS of a clinical psychologist
Specialization No. 1 “Pathopsychological diagnostics and psychotherapy”
Specialization No. 2 “Psychological support in emergency and extreme situations”
Specialization No. 3 “Neuropsychological rehabilitation and correctional and developmental training”
Specialization No. 4 “Clinical and psychological assistance to children and families”
Specialization No. 5 “Psychology of health and sports”
Specialization No. 6 “Clinical and social rehabilitation and penitentiary psychology”
Currently, the department is conducting single-unit training in specialization No. 1, laying the foundations for other specializations that can be mastered at the postgraduate level of advanced training.
The Institute of Psychotherapy and Clinical Psychology (IPiCP) was created in December 1992 as an institute of additional professional education.
Entered into the register of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation on July 20, 2005.
Rector of the Institute - Doctor of Medical Sciences Gordeeva Elena Grigorievna.
State educational license DPO No. 037441 dated April 27, 2016
Areas of activity of the institute
The Institute's training system includes:
- Training under programs of additional professional education (improvement, advanced training, retraining) of specialists.
- Postgraduate retraining (in Moscow and the regions) of psychologists, educational psychologists, bachelors of psychology, 4th and 5th year students of psychology departments (in parallel with basic training) in the specialty “Clinical Psychology” for work in the healthcare system and private practice with various specializations.
Research activities
Fundamental research in the field of depth psychology, connections between practical medicine and clinical psychology.
Research into the influence of psychological factors on business growth.
Development of strategies for psychological assistance and psychotherapy for people who have experienced severe stress.
Preparation and testing of rehabilitation and prevention programs for special contingents providing assistance in emergency situations or working in extreme situations.
Publishing activities
Publishing scientific and popular books on psychotherapy, psychology, medicine and pedagogy.
Creation of educational videos in various areas of psychotherapy and music and trance audio programs for conducting psychotherapeutic sessions.
Principles of the Institute's work
Systematic approach to problems of human knowledge; theoretical and methodological interconnectedness, integrity of the research problems being solved; compliance with the modern scientific paradigm, high reliability and validity of empirical interpretations and data obtained; methodological accuracy and validity, adequacy and accuracy of work methods.
High quality of training; using the best ideas in working with students and listeners; heuristics, comprehensive nature of services, reliability of results, person-oriented approach, respect for each person.
Exceptional attention to the requirements and wishes of the customer; focus on long-term partnerships and high responsibility for the work performed, prompt action; establishing feedback; compliance with warranty obligations and confidentiality of information obtained during the interaction.
The Institute offers the opportunity to complete training in accordance with an individual schedule, as well as attend individual seminars of your choice, which allows you to combine training with work.
A distinctive feature of the Institute of Psychotherapy and Clinical Psychology is the practical orientation of training.
After retraining, the specialist graduates not only with a fundamental theoretical knowledge base in psychotherapy and psychology, but also with practical counseling skills. All students undergo mandatory personal therapy from the Institute’s teachers (practical psychologists, psychotherapists and psychiatrists).
