Psychologists of ASU Discuss New Technologies

The Seminar “Innovative Technologies in Psychology” dedicated to the Day of Russian Science has been arranged at Astrakhan State University by its Rehabilitation Center “Correction & Development” operation at the Basic Chair of Applied Psychology of the Department of Psychology. Both faculty and students of our Department of Psychology have taken part in it.

Dr. Irina Rakhmanina, Head of the Chair of Applied Psychology and Deputy Director of the Center “Correction & Development”, has given her presentation “Innovative Technologies Applied to Teach Practice-Oriented Disciplines at Basic Chair of Applied Psychology”. In her speech, Dr. Rakhmanina has pointed out that the Center acts as an experimental site to perform research projects and for our students to write their diploma papers. She has emphasized the importance of research activities in the field of rehabilitation of children with special health needs.

All the participants have been invited to master sites, which have demonstrated innovative methods to diagnose and correct various psychic functions. The participants and the guests have learnt about the creative course “Joy” aimed to develop children’s creative thinking and about the Timokko correctional developing computer set, which contains interactive games that increase children’s motivation towards physical and cognitive activities in an interesting and a funny form. The art therapeutic technologies “Right-Hemisphere Painting” and “Ebru Therapy” to optimize one’s physic emotional mood have been especially interesting. Our students could also talk with authors of these technologies online. Professor Yuri Tsagarelli has wished everyone professional success and new discoveries in the field of Psychology. As for Professor Miloslava Zinovkina, she has wished to cooperate further with the Rehabilitation Center “Correction & Development” in particular and with ASU in general. At the end of the event, the training “Brain Gymnastics” has been held with all the participants and guests; it is a system of special movements, physical and breathing exercises, psychotechnical techniques, and methods of positive thinking that are necessary for one’s work with “special” children.

Let us hope that the new knowledge and skills obtained at this Seminar will help our students achieve progress not just in their studies, but in their further lives as well.

Russian original information and photo source: the Department of Psychology of ASU

Translated by E.I. Glinchevskiy (the Center of Translation Studies & Conference Interpreting “ASTLINK” of ASU)