The second issue of the journal "Extreme Psychology and Personal Safety" (No. 2, 2025) has been published, dedicated to current problems in the psychology of personal safety. The thematic editor of the issue is Anna Viktorovna Litvinova, Candidate of Psychological Sciences, Associate Professor at the Department of Scientific Foundations of Extreme Psychology at the Faculty of "Extreme Psychology" of Moscow State University of Psychology and Education.

The issue opens with a theoretical review devoted to the relationship between strategic thinking and psychological safety of the individual. M.M. Mishina and K.V. Kaulin, based on a systems approach, provide a rationale for the key directions of this relationship. The authors emphasize the role of long-term planning, critical analysis, and metacognitive abilities in enhancing psychological safety.

Special attention in the issue is given to research on goal-setting as both a resource for ensuring psychological safety and a factor in its reduction (A.V. Litvinova, I.A. Korneeva, and I.O. Kotenev). The issue also examines questions of deviant activity of students in the virtual environment as a risk to psychological safety (K.A. Vorobyeva) and the impact of physical education classes using virtual reality on the psychological safety of students with functional health limitations in the educational environment (T.N. Berezina, K.E. Buzanov).

The psychological consequences of migration affecting vulnerable groups and their psychological well-being are analyzed in the article by V. Kaplan, Y. Melikoglu, and M. Pasa.

Problems of safety in the use of digital technologies in educational institutions are presented in several studies. Cyberaggression and cyberbullying as factors destabilizing the safety of the educational environment and the psychological well-being of students are discussed in the article by N.V. Averbukh. The article by Yu.A. Antsibor is devoted to the possibility of combining digital innovations and traditional values in Suvorov military schools. The effectiveness of using virtual reality in training to reduce student anxiety is explored by A.O. Ivanova and K.V. Zavyazkina.

Practical recommendations are presented in the studies of Yu.A. Pchelintseva and M.I. Marin, who proposed a program for preventing interpersonal conflicts among cadets and enhancing the psychological safety of the educational environment. Solutions to interpsychic problems of adolescent aggression and auto-aggression through the formation of an intrapsychic reflective-subjective position in the developing personality are proposed by V.I. Ekimova, T.Yu. Golik, and A.V. Levchenko.

The research presented in this thematic issue reflects the development of the psychology of personal safety and expands understanding of the risks, resources, and conditions for ensuring psychological safety.

The second issue of the journal is published in open access on the Portal of Psychological Publications PsyJournals.ru.