Specialist's degree's degree program

Moral and Psychological Ensuring of Authorities’ Service Activity

School of Culture, Public Communications and Information Technologies
Outcome (diploma/credits)

Specialist of Psychology in Power Structures

Language of study

Russian

Application deadline

20 August 2024

Duration, Format, Tuition Fees
5 yearsFull-time148 000 ₽

Overview

Psychology in power structures is concerned with issues of psychological support in management, performance of staff in law-enforcement agencies, defense authorities, personal and public security sphere, education, social care, work of psychological units.

Students will be taught to fulfill professional tasks, among which are
  • determining the applicant's psychological suitability for employment in law enforcement authorities, military service and predicting their psychological readiness to carry out professional tasks;
  • psychological training of staff for work in everyday and extreme conditions;
  • providing psychological support;
  • creating a psychological profile of an employee, analyze and evaluate the psychological conditions of his work;
  • developing and implementing programs aimed at prevention of misconduct and deviations in social and personal status, mental development of staff;
  • developing programs aimed at diagnosing employees’ problems requiring corrective intervention;
  • providing psychological aid in emergency situations;
  • training and certifying new staff;
  • teaching psychology at colleges and universities, et al.

Key courses

  • Psychology of safety;
  • Psychology of crowd behavior and rioting;
  • Crisis psychology;
  • Legal psychology;
  • Emergency psychology;
  • Psychological support in power structures;
  • Development of psychological potential of staff;
  • Social-professional integration.

Careers

Common roles for graduates include:

  • HR manager,
  • coach,
  • psychologist-diagnostician,
  • psychologist-advisor,
  • psychology-instructor,
  • social psychologist,
  • head hunter

for the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Federal Security Service, Ministry of Emergency Situations , Federal Customs Service, Emergency Medicine Service, State government bodies of constituent entities of the Russian Federation, municipal divisions.