Lecturers and Graduates of the MSUPE Department of Ethnopsychology Spoke at the World Congress of Russian-Speaking Psychotherapists and Psychologists

From November 6 to 9, the III World Congress of Russian-Speaking Psychotherapists and Psychologists, "Technologies. Culture. Service," organized by the All-Russian Professional Psychotherapeutic League (OPPL), took place in Moscow. More than 1,100 psychologists participated in the congress, working in sections, master classes, and round tables, enriching one another with the capabilities of their modalities and counseling techniques.

As part of the congress, the section "Multicultural Approach in Psychological Counseling" was presented for the first time on November 9. Its work was organized by lecturers and graduates of the Department of Ethnopsychology and Psychological Problems of Multicultural Education at the Faculty of Social Psychology at MSUPE: O.S. Pavlova, M.Yu. Chibisova, E.A. Verchenova, and A.S. Antonova.

Ten speakers delivered reports during the section's work. The reports by O.S. Pavlova and M.Yu. Chibisova, co-heads of the OPPL cluster on the multicultural approach, presented the methodological principles of psychological work with cultural differences that have been formulated to date in domestic science and practice. E.A. Verchenova's report examined the manifestations of cultural specifics in the educational process. The reports by the section participants also highlighted aspects of relationships in intercultural marriages and useful practical techniques for psychological work in counseling on adaptation to cultural differences within a couple. Topics related to culture shock during migration, as well as psychological support for adoptive parents and children from different cultural groups, were of great interest to the participants.

The discussion of the general methodology of the multicultural approach, as well as specific issues in counseling practice, aroused significant interest among specialists. Graduates and students of the MSUPE master's program "Cross-Cultural Technologies in Psychological Counseling" took an active part in the section's work.

Graduates of the MSUPE Department of Ethnopsychology also participated in other sections of the congress. Within the section "Psychotherapy of Crisis States," I.A. Lyapneva presented a report titled "The Second Transition Age - the Normative Crisis of Women 45+." At the section "Rodological Counseling Method and Kinship Culture" (headed by L.N. Dokuchaeva), D.Z. Faizullina worked as a volunteer.