Analysis, diagnosis and restoration of the patient’s normal behavior through the study of the intellectual, emotional, social and biological state of his body in a specific socio-economic environment determine the range of competencies of a clinical psychologist. Under the clinical psychology, Russian universities understand the knowledge and skills to accurately determine the condition and assess the potential of the patient, to ensure effective restoration of health and social and labor adaptation of patients. A clinical psychologist must have a set of professionally important qualities, a willingness to overcome difficulties, a desire to help people.
Specialty plot
Clinical psychology is no longer medical psychology, but also not psychiatry. The competence of a clinical psychologist is borderline conditions, when there is a reason to seek help and eliminate deviations in human behavior, return the state of the body to normal.
A clinical psychologist helps to avoid pathology and real medical intervention. The main method of work of such a specialist is observation and conversation, not a scalpel and medications.
Moscow higher education institutions
Capital universities are prestige, history, rating, high requirements for applicants and high attractiveness. There are many advantages for applicants and their parents, a guarantee of high quality knowledge.
Moscow offers a wide selection of educational institutions:
- Moscow State University M.V. Lomonosov;
- Russian National Research Medical University named after N.I. Pirogova;
- First Moscow State Medical University. I.M.Sechenova;
- Russian State University;
- Moscow GPPU;
- Russian State Social University;
- MGMSU them. A.I. Evdokimova;
- Moscow Institute of Psychoanalysis, etc.
This is not a complete list of universities and institutes. But the names of famous institutions can draw important conclusions. The choice of a university with global competence and a wide range of specialties is one option. The specialization of an educational institution in the field of pedagogy or psychology is a significant difference. Dental or medical majors in education will be the third option of education.
Universities differ in the requirements for applicants, in the socio-economic nuances of getting an education, passing score, entrance exams and taught subjects.
In each academic year, the details of teaching, teachers, shades of the specialty due to research and academic work change. As a rule, the main outline of the specialty is preserved, but upon admission to compare their desires and carefully look at the features of the specialty in several educational institutions, each applicant will not be amiss.
Clinical Psychology at universities of St. Petersburg
The second capital of Russia provides a smaller choice of educational institutions, but no less choice of options.
Specialty clinical psychologist offer:
- St. Petersburg State University ;
- PSPbG Medical University named after academician I.P. Pavlov;
- Russian GPU named after A.I. Herzen;
- St. Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University ;
- Leningrad State University named after A.S. Pushkin and others
Studying in St. Petersburg is no less prestigious than in Moscow. The socio-economic conditions here are not much simpler, and the teachers and the quality of the offered knowledge are not much worse.
The education and desire of the student to obtain quality knowledge in the chosen specialty in the field of clinical psychology are somewhat different from the specialties in other fields, both medical, humanitarian and technical.
Choosing the profession of a clinical psychologist, a person is aware that having a desire to get quality knowledge will not be enough. The choice of Moscow, Petersburg or Novosibirsk will not determine the quality of his work in full.
Being a great surgeon, dentist, educator or engineer is one thing. Clinical psychology is not only the psyche of the patient, but also the ability of a specialist to concentrate his own psyche, to keep complex treatment processes under reliable control.
Other higher institutions of Russia
Different cities of Russia, for historical reasons, offer training in the specialty of clinical psychology.
Novosibirsk, Tomsk, Belgorod, Ryazan, Perm and other cities have universities, schools, directions. For one reason or another, many applicants cannot come to enter metropolitan universities. This is not a critical circumstance. The prestige of a specialty and an educational institution is important, but the rating of a working specialist and the process of training a future specialist can make a big difference.
Russia is a big country, but there are no distances for knowledge. Having arrived in Tomsk or Novosibirsk, you can easily be in Moscow. An active research position, practice during training, a thirst for knowledge and a desire to become in demand can change the fate of any person in any city.
History: From Medical to Clinical
The ancestors of clinical psychology are considered to be medical psychology, scientific and practical results of the work of French and Russian scientists.
The achievements of general psychology owe their appearance to the works of Ankylosing spondylitis, Pavlov, Vygotsky, Luria and other brilliant minds who founded psychological laboratories - the future system of theoretical directions, scientific schools and centers of clinical psychology in Russian universities, medical and preventive institutions.
The Second World War had a noticeable impact on the development of clinical psychology, when the best medical personnel helped soldiers deal with injuries, stresses, and dysfunctions of the brain.
An essential point was the adaptation of domestic education to international standards, when in the 90s clinical psychology received its own status, subject and content.
The field of competence of clinical psychology is extensive and is represented by several industries:
- psychosomatics;
- psychotherapy;
- neuropsychology;
- psychocorrection;
- psychopathology.
Clinical psychologists do not resort to medical treatment, but have knowledge in various medical specialties. Clinical psychology is classified as a broad-profile specialty. The intersectoral nature of the discipline makes it possible to solve a set of problems in the system of healthcare, public education and social assistance to the population.
Observation and conversation: specialty methods
The work of a clinical psychologist is focused on increasing the psychological resources and adaptive capabilities of the human body, harmonizing mental development, protecting health, preventing and overcoming ailments, and psychological rehabilitation.
In various scientific schools and universities, clinical psychology is represented by a different spectrum of subjects, methods and tools of work. A specialist can use his own style of work, choose a theoretical field or practical activity.
Observations and conversations are not the only tools of a clinical psychologist, but the general theory and specific practice of teaching clinical psychology at universities orient future specialists in the direction that advanced scientific knowledge considers reasonable and confirmed in practice.
Features of the specialty in various universities
Clinical psychology is a relatively young specialty, if you do not take into account its kinship with medical psychology. For example, the oldest university in Moscow, Moscow State University. Lomonosova offers training in a wide range of psychological specialties, without highlighting clinical psychology, but all training programs keep records of best practices.
How to get a specialty of a clinical psychologist
Clinical psychology in Russian universities is represented by many interesting proposals. You can study full-time for several years, then continue to study in a magistracy or start your own practice. Some universities allow extramural or part-time forms of education. You can find special continuing education courses in distance learning.
It is ideal to study clinical psychology at a university in Moscow, but also to Novosibirsk scientific schools is no worse. Psychological specialties lead to work with people. This circumstance objectively determines the priority of full-time study over correspondence. The form of distance learning in the field of psychology is available only to specialists with higher education (possibly more than one), rich experience in working with people, realistically justified desire and abilities.
A clinical psychologist is “not a doctor according to the logic of things”, but its functions are really aimed at improving people's health, making the correct diagnosis, conducting objective observations and conversations.
Capital life plus active clinical practice and the study of clinical psychology at a university in St. Petersburg, like in Moscow or Novosibirsk, is a good choice, but it is possible that the choice of the Perm Psychological School may be more attractive.
Doctor and patient: time to meet
The life of a person and his psyche in tandem patient-doctor (clinical psychologist) may be due to "higher powers", fate or other circumstances. It is possible (and this is confirmed by numerous facts) that the process of obtaining knowledge and skills by a future clinical psychologist and the process of mental disorders (head trauma, other mental illness) of his future patient lead to the desired meeting on their own, that is, in the course of the circumstances. The application of the knowledge corresponds to the need for a complete restoration of health.
Perhaps there is a worldwide law of maintaining health, and each doctor is destined for a certain number (quality) of patients. Who knows, but it is difficult to predict the right choice of university. Clinical psychology in the capital or on the outskirts of Russia? Perhaps the psychology of pedagogy will be of great help to the clinical psychologist at work than knowledge of neurophysiology or the basics of psychiatry.
Confidence, firmness and desire
Treatment is never pleasant, and disease is sometimes difficult to avoid. Do not drink, smoke or lead a healthy lifestyle - a good rule. But how these or other circumstances turn and why the disease comes is difficult to determine.
In any case, the specialty of the clinical psychologist is not only strong knowledge and skills, but also a strong desire to use them for the benefit of a person to restore his psychological and biological health.