Social, Pedagogical, and Psychological Service

Vitebsk State Order of the Friendship of Peoples Medical University (VSMU) operates a Social, Pedagogical, and Psychological Service (SPPS).

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Consultation with an SPPS Specialist

The main goal of the service is to create conditions for students’ comprehensive personal development, positive socialization, professional growth, and life self-determination, as well as to preserve and strengthen students’ psychological health.

Objectives of the Psychological Service:

• Promote the development of students’ healthy lifestyle skills and safe, responsible behavior;
• Support students’ comprehensive personal, intellectual, and professional development;
• Provide social and pedagogical support to students;
• Conduct psychological and pedagogical assessment of students and the development of student groups;
• Prevent and correct deviations in behavior, intellectual, and personal development;
• Organize social, pedagogical, psychological, and methodological support for group curators and dormitory educators;
• Provide guardianship for orphaned students and children left without parental care;
• Foster students’ readiness to create families and maintain respect for family values and traditions;
• Offer social, pedagogical, and psychological counseling to students, faculty, and staff.

Areas of Activity of the Social, Pedagogical, and Psychological Service (SPPS) at VSMU

• Social-Pedagogical Prevention and Psychoprophylactic Activities – promoting a healthy lifestyle, preventing cases of antisocial behavior among students, and organizing preventive work.
• Psychological Education – enhancing students’ psychological culture in interpersonal relationships, coping with normative life crises, stress management, and preparation for marriage; improving the psychological culture of faculty, group curators, and dormitory educators.
• Psychodiagnostic Activities – psychological and pedagogical study of students and student groups; identifying causes of personal development or behavioral issues.
• Social Protection and Guardianship of Students – identifying and supporting students in need of social protection or guardianship; protecting students’ rights and interests in various authorities (prevention councils, courts, etc.).
• Consultative Activities – providing psychological and social-pedagogical assistance to students, faculty, and staff.
• Training Activities – supporting students’ personal growth; developing communication skills; fostering leadership qualities among students; preparing students for marriage and developing skills important for family life.
• Scientific and Methodological Activities – studying SPPS practices at universities in the city and across the country, developing and implementing methodological materials.

Contact Information:

Educational Psychologists: +375 212 22 14 31

Social Educators: +375 212 24 60 74

SPPS Staff:

Head of SPPS: Viktoria Ivanovna Miklyuk

Educational Psychologist: Anna Petrovna Romanovskaya

Educational Psychologist: Elena Sergeevna Golovinova

Educational Psychologist: Natalia Alexandrovna Bolshakova

Social Educator: Tatyana Vladimirovna Kukhareva

Location:

The SPPS is located in Dormitory No. 4, VSMU.

Email:

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Resources for Self-Study:

Methodological recommendations and materials of VSMU for curators and faculty: